DEFRA Stove Installation and User Guide
Figure 6: The flow of air through your stove.
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Lighting your stove
8.1
Ignition Sequence (Lighting from cold)
Place a firelighter and a large handful (0.5-0.6 kg) of dry kindling in the stove.
With the air control set to maximum (fully to the left) light the firelighter and push
the door up to a point where it is 10mm ajar.
After 8-10mins the kindling will die down, now add four small split logs (approx
0.75kg in total) once again leaving the door ajar 10mm and the air control still at
maximum. Once these small logs are well alight, and with the burn starting to
slightly recede (depending on flue draw etc. this may be up to 20 mins) add the
normal fuel load (approximately 1.3kg or two small logs). After approximately 3
minutes shut the door fully but leave the air control set to maximum. When the
logs have burnt down to embers the Ignition Sequence is complete and re-fuelling
for normal use can commence.
The purpose of these ignition instructions (lighting from cold) is to ensure that
both the stove and chimney are heated to full running temperature as quickly as
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