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Open the door.
Prepare with usual lighting material, light up the fire and load small amount of wood, leaving the air inlet fully opened.
To facilitate lighting, it is possible to leave the door ajar for a few minutes; in this case it should be under a constant supervision.
When the fire is on, load some more wood and adjust the combustion by means of an air regulator or a thermostat (situated
usually at the back or on the right side of the appliance), if the appliance is equipped with it.
REMARK:
During the stove functioning, keep away any material that can be altered by the heat: furniture, paper, clothes.
WARNING:
When in use, the handle of the stove should not be touched with a bare hand. Use a protection glove to touch it. Moreover, the
combustion chamber and the ash pit door should be closed to avoid smoke back draft, except during lighting, reloading or ash
removal.
When in use, the stove door should remain closed.
Loading can be done by the front door or by the side door, if the appliance is equipped with it.
For normal use, put 3 or 4 logs and adjust the position to 2 or 3.
For a slow mode functioning, wait until the fire is sufficiently established, then load 1 or 2 large logs and adjust the air regulator or the
thermostat to the minimum, if the appliance is equipped with one.
NOTE:
Duration of the slow mode burning will depend on wood that is used and on the draft. Loaded fuel height should not exceed
25
cm
.
Always follow the instructions.
During first usage, load a small quantity of wood to check good functioning of the appliance. Gradually increase the amount of
wood over a few days.
Do not use the appliance as an incinerator.
Use only recommended fuel.
Do not use the appliance if its glass is broken or cracked. Have it replaced before using it again. We recommend contacting the
vendor of your appliance for payable replacement of your glass. We recommend replacing at the same time the door and glass
seals and not clamping it too much during the re-assembling in order to enable its dilatation.
After a long period without using the appliance, make sure that the flue lining and the connection duct and smoke duct are not
clogged.
Loading: VERY IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATION
Before loading, the fire should be sufficiently low. Do not open the door if high flames can be seen, with the door open they can be
backdrafted.
Always open the door very slowly to permit draft and avoid backdraft.
This appliance should fully satisfy your needs. However, one should not forget that any appliance can only liberate energy that is
contained in its fuel.
If you think that your appliance heating capacity is insufficient, we can suggest that:
Either the quantity of fuel is not sufficient.
Or the energy contained in fuel is not sufficient.
Use only wood that has been cut for at least 2 years (36 months would be better). We highly recommend using wood that has been
labelled NF heating wood.
In the theory, all types of wood have the same heating capacity for the same weight. Hard wood is good for heating as it is dense and
very often less damp.
Dampness contained in wood can vary form 15% in dry wood to 50% in damp wood. Bear in mind that a lot of energy is needed to
remove this dampness.
Available energy for heating is 4.16 Wh per kilo of dry wood. It is only 1.73 Wh per kilo of damp wood (50% of humidity).
Using damp wood can additionally cause the flue lining condensation, which clogs it quickly and can later on provoke a chimney fire.
Empty the ash pit every 2 or 3 days according to your usage. Ash removal should be carried out with precautions, using a
protection glove to carry the ash pit and a special tool to open the ash pit.
Never let ashes collect to such an extent that they come into contact with the grill. The grill will not be able to cool down and will
deteriorate very quickly
ASH REMOVAL
FUEL IMPORTANCE
APPLIANCE FUNCTIONING
