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CORRECTLY
A new wood burning stove should be red with care
during the rst few occasions. This makes the heat-
resistant colour more durable. There may also be a
slightly unpleasant smell the rst few mes you use the
re. This is completely normal and
due to excess paint or oil remaining on the iron casng.
The smell will disappear quite quickly and won’t come
back.
MAINTENANCE
Connuously maintain your stove and treat it with
stove paint when necessary. Mild rust can be removed
with the coarse side of a sponge. Then apply stove
paint.
Ash should regularly be removed from the grate. The
easiest way to do this is with a piece of wood or a
poker prior to ignion.
Empty the ash pan as soon as it is full. Do not empty
the ash pan when the stove is lit as there may be
sparks.
Keep the replace and ue clean. If you use the stove
oen, you should sweep the chimney every once in a
while in-between visits from the chimney sweep.
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Sweeping the wood burning stove
The easiest way to clean / sweep the replace is by
liing up the hotplates / cooking rings. This enables
you to access the enre replace and oven ceiling for
cleaning.
The supplied soot rake is used to access the right
hand side of the oven and the inside of the right outer
side. The underside of the oven all the way to the ue
(applies to rear connecon) may be accessed through
the soot hatch located beneath the oven door.
In case of a top connecon, the soot from chimney will
end up at the rear edge beneath the oven. This soot
can also be accessed through the soot hatch located
beneath the oven door.
The best heat value is obtained from split birch wood.
Hardwood trees generally burn more calmly than
sowood, which creates a more even heat. If you
are burning oak, beech or other wood with high heat
value, always mix the wood with other types of wood.
Otherwise you risk damaging your replace. The wood
should be dry, with preferably 15-20% moisture content.
For a normal re, approximately 1-1.5 kg wood / hour is
a suitable amount of wood. 1 kg birch wood produces
about 4 kW power.
Open the air supply damper fully. Place briquees in the
centre of the replace. Pile up about 1 kg of small wood
logs crosswise, like a log house, on top of the briquees.
Start by lighng the briquees. These should, in turn,
ignite the wood. Keep the replace door ajar for the rst
few minutes unl the wood is properly lit. Depending
on the chimney draught, you may need to leave the
door open slightly longer to build a temperature in the
replace and to create a sasfactory chimney draught.
Then close the door and adjust the valve to the desired
intensity of the re. The range should be properly heated
before starng to reduce the air supply.
If the ames slow down too much when you close
the replace door completely, some primary air may
be supplied. This damper is located on the ash hatch.
When the stove has reached the right temperature
and a sasfactory chimney draught has been achieved,
the primary air damper should be closed for a cleaner
combuson.
When the intensity of the re has decreased, it is me to
replenish. Open the door carefully. That way, you avoid
smoke gusts. Use a replace tool or a piece of wood
to distribute ash and glow. Replenish with 2-4 logs and
close the door when the wood has ignited properly (1-1.5
kg wood).
In order to use the re correctly, it’s necessary to achieve
as high a temperature as possible in the replace. Then
you’ll have a clean combuson and get the most out of
the range and the rewood. With clean combuson, you
avoid soot coang the replace. When you use the re
correctly, smoke shouldn’t be visible.