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Your new High Valley Model 1300 has been designed to give you years of clean, e
ffi
cient service. Take me to consider
carefully where your new wood heater will be installed in your home. If you are planning to use an exis ng chimney
and/or hearth, many of the decisions have been made for you. Consult with your High Valley dealer before commi ng
to a
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nal loca on and take full advantage of their experience. Consider how you plan to use your wood heater, your ex-
pecta ons, and the physical layout of your home. Once the wood heater has been installed it would require signi
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cant
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ort and expense to change its loca on. Perhaps, a er considering all factors, you may come to the conclusion that
the loca on of an exis ng chimney may not be the best place for your new wood heater. Evaluate all of your op ons
fully before making a
fi
nal decision.
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The wood heater should be located in a place where it will be convenient to fuel and maintain the stove,
but well away from human tra
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ow, and clear of hallways and doors. It must be possible to maintain the minimum
clearances to combus bles which were determined by safety tes ng (see page 5). Ensure that furniture, window treat-
ments (draperies and curtains, wood materials including wood fuel, and any other combus ble materials will be no
closer than 36" to the wood heater. If children reside in the home or visit regularly consider how the area immediately
around the heater can be closed o
ff
to keep children safely away from hot surfaces. Consult your High Valley dealer for
advice on safety gates and other safety products.
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Ideally the wood heater will be centrally located in the area that you wish to heat.
A wood stove is an excellent area heater or space heater. Properly sized and operated it will heat the area where it is
located and heated air will naturally move throughout the home. Keep in mind that a stove does not have the advantage
of a distribu on system to deliver the heat around your home like a central hea ng boiler or furnace. Don't expect the
type of even heat distribu on that a central hea ng system can deliver. If your goal is to heat a family room, an addi on,
or a por on of the main house, the stove should be sized and operated to create a warm, comfortable space with the
surplus heat allowed to travel around the home on natural convec on (air) currents. A large wood stove with the capac-
ity to heat a home will typically overheat the area where it is located unless the home is constructed with an open
fl
oor
plan. If hea ng a typical par oned home with wood as a primary heat source is truly the goal, then it would be wise
to consider installing a number of smaller sized wood heaters throughout the space to be heated rather than a single
large wood heater. The number would depend on the size and layout of the home. We do not recommend installing
your wood heater in an uninsulated basement. Much of the heat produced will be lost to the uninsulated walls of the
basement. NEVER cut holes or vents in a ceiling/
fl
oor in an a empt to get warm air to rise to the rooms above. You will
be compromising a
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rebreak in your home and could, should a
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re ensue, jeopardize your homeowners insurance cover-
age. Contact your local Fire O
ffi
cials or Building O
ffi
cial, or other Authority Having Jurisdic on for guidance.
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Once the best physical loca on for your wood heater from a hea ng perspec ve is agreed
upon, the feasibility of providing a safe and e
ff
ec ve chimney in that loca on must be considered. If the chimney is to
run up through the ceiling and/or the roof then the space above must be clear. The layout and loca on of
fl
oor joists
and/or roof ra ers must be ascertained. Most factory-built chimney components are designed to
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t into standard con-
struc on without the need for cu ng and boxing frame members. A factory-built chimney can also exit through the
sidewall of the house and up the side of the home. Another alterna ve would be to construct a new masonry speci
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cally for the woodstove. In any case, the wood stove must not be vented into a chimney
fl
ue serving any other appli-
ance. Once again, we strongly recommend that chimney installa on be performed by a cer
fi
ed professional installer
who is thoroughly familiar with the requirements of modern wood heaters.
Your High Valley Model 1300 is approved for installa on into either a masonry chimney or a Type HT factory-built chim-
ney listed to UL-103-HT or ULC-S629 standards. A masonry chimney is a permanent installa on requiring a load bearing
foo ng to support the mass of the chimney. Factory-built chimneys o
ff
er
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exible installa on op ons and use proprietary
support systems for through-the-roof or sidewall installa on. A properly constructed chimney that provides adequate
dra is essen al for the safe and e
ffi
cient opera on of your wood heater. More speci
fi
c informa on about dra and vari-
ous chimney installa ons and material will follow, but lets begin at the beginning. Look back to a me when
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replaces,
wood stoves, and later, solid fuel central hea ng were relied on as the only source of heat in cold weather. Proper
chimney construc on and loca on could spell the di
ff
erence between surviving the winter and not. Those chimneys had
to work. Life revolved around the
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replace and, later, the cook stove and parlor stove. The chimney helped warm the
home but also was kept warm by the home. A warm chimney drew be er. Likewise the chimney was as tall as possible.
A tall chimney drew be er and was less likely to be a
ff
ected by wind and weather.
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