Open Fire - wood burns very quickly

[944fan]

I have an open fire which I am burning logs and kindling bought in bags from B & Q. It lights very easily and the burns extremley fast, I am going through about 5-6 logs and hours. There doesn't seem to be any damper or anything I can adjust. Anyway to slow it down? I don't mind it so much but it takes so much work to keep it going or it will just burn itself out.

[southendpier]

change the wood. or use a base layer of coal, this keeps the fire going and you can pop wood on top when you want. cut dow the oxygen getting to the fire. Use bigger logs.

[shimmey69]

buy yourself decent hardwood logs, most B&Q stuff i have seen tend to be soft wood which burns quicker and with less heat than hardwood.

where abouts in the country are you??

[Paul Drawmer]

If you are burning wood only; it doesn't need a grate, it will burn best on a heap of it's own ash. As has already been said, get some proper dry hardwood, Ash is excellent for burning.

[944fan]

The packet says its hardwood. It also says it is kiln dried which maybe why it burns faster.

I am in Milton Keynes.

Haven't tried coal might give it a go. I seem to have it going nicely at the moment and there is a base layer of glow ember which I don't usualy get. I might chuck a big log in a mo and see if that burns slowly.