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OWNER MANUAL
ALBIECORE™ HEATER OPERATING AND
MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS
The Maine Wood Heat Company has been
designing and building masonry heaters for
nearly 30 years. We have been an integral part
of the development of masonry heaters in the
United States from the beginning and are very
pleased to still be a part of this very significant
technology today. We welcome you into this
ever-growing family of heater owners. We
are grateful to have played a role in the new
heart of your home and we offer the following
information to help you become familiar with
your heater’s operation and care. Your new
heater should serve and warm you for many
years to come.
Warm Regards,
Albie, Cheryl, and Scott Barden
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR HEATER:
Your heater is equipped with one or two sets of
loading doors each of which have primary draft
slides. You also have an ash box door with a
draft slide and if you chose to have a bake oven,
you will have a bake oven door with a screw out
draft control.
In addition, your heater is equipped with a
sliding shut off damper with a wooden handle,
as well as a by-pass channel with a pivoting
weighted handle.
Finally, if your installation called for it, you may
have a cast iron pivoting ash dump located on
the floor of the ash box.
C
LEANOUTS
AND
SOOT
DOORS
:
In the basement, your wood heater flue typically
has an 8” x 8” cast iron soot door at the base of
the chimney. It should be kept tightly closed
except when inspecting or cleaning the chimney.
You also have an 8” x 8” cleanout door mounted
on the second or third course of the heater’s
block foundation. Its purpose is to give you
access for annual or biannual ash removal from
the heater above.
If you have a second flue on the chimney it too is
equipped with an 8” x 8” cast iron clean out and
a 6”or 7” galvanized thimble to service a gas or
oil fired appliance.
C
ARE
DURING
CONSTRUCTION
OF
HOUSE
:
It is very important to understand that your
heater should not be used by anyone but
yourselves. If anyone fills the heater with trash
or kindling or construction scraps, the firebox
could over heat and cause stress cracking.
While the house is being completed the bench
and heater cap should be covered with plywood
and workers should not be allowed to use the
bench as a ladder, storage area or workbench.
The same should apply to the cap area.
