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Initial fire-up, a good start
You have purchased a brand-new stove, ‘zero on the meter’, has not seen a flame yet. This means you are going to take care of the initial ‘miles’.
The ceramic firebricks will start evaporating moisture and your wood-burning stove will start setting. For this reason, the first few times, do not
make your fire too hot because otherwise the bricks could crack. You need not worry about any shrinkage cracks.
The initial fire-up requires some additional time and attention, as well as the approach we have outlined below for you in steps. Before starting,
please note the following important points:
• When starting the fire in the stove, open the aeration slide. This is only the kindling position!
• While firing-up the stove the first time some liquid might come down from the ceramic firebrick. Please put some old towels underneath the
stove before firing it up.
• When the stove has reached it’s temperature you can close the aerations slide a little . Now it is easy to regulate the fire by means of closing or
opening the aeration slide a bit.
• Make sure there is sufficient ventilation.
Initial fire-up in steps
1. Fully open the air-control slide by moving
it towards the front of the stove.
This is the kindling position.
3. Fill the stove with paper, a handful of dry
and thin kindling wood and then light it.
5. After an hour, you will start bringing the
whole stove at the proper temperature using
first some thin kindling wood.
Leave the aeration slide open.
6. Then use thicker logs, ± 5x5 cm thick
and 20 cm long. At the same time, leave
the aeration slide open.
Close it a little bit when the fire is burning
properly.
4. Allow the fire to burn up and the stove
to cool off for an hour so that the moisture
in the firebrick can evaporate. Some liquid
might come free from the ceramic fire-brick.
Therefore place an old towel underneath the
stove before firing-up.
2. Light a large ball of dry paper against the
back plate of the burning chamber and allow
this fire to go out again.
