Your appliance was designed to
burn wood only; no other materials
should be burned. Waste and other
flammable materials should not be
burned in your appliance. Any type of
wood may be used in your appliance,
but specific varieties have better
energy yields than others. Please
consult the following table in order to
make the best possible choice.
It is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that you
use DRY WOOD only in your wood
appliance. The wood should have
dried for 9 to 15 months, such that the
humidity content (in weight) is reduced
below 20% of the weight of the log. It
is very important to keep in mind that
even if the wood has been cut for one, two, or even more years, it is not necessarily dry if it has been stored in
poor conditions. Under extreme conditions it may rot, instead of drying. This point cannot be over stressed; the
vast majority of the problems related to the operation of a wood appliance is caused by the fact that the wood
used was too damp or has dried in poor conditions. These problems can be:
- Ignition problems
- Creosote build-up causing chimney fires
- Low energy yield
- Blackened windows
- Incomplete log combustion
Smaller pieces of wood will dry faster. All logs exceeding 6” in diameter should be split. The wood should not be
stored directly on the ground. Air should circulate through the cord. A 24” to 48” air space should be left between
each row of logs, which should be placed in the sunniest location possible. The upper layer of wood should be
protected from the elements but not the sides.
FLOOR PROTECTION
This appliance must only be installed on the required brick kit.
CHIMNEY CONNECTOR (STOVE PIPE)
Your chimney connector and chimney must have the same
diameter as the appliance outlet (10”). If this is not the case, we
recommend you contact your dealer in order to insure there will be
no problem with the draft.
The stove pipe must be made of aluminized or cold roll steel with a
minimum thickness of 0.021” or 0.53 mm. It is strictly forbidden to use
galvanized steel.
Your smoke pipe should be assembled in such a way that the male
section (crimped end) of the pipe faces down. Attach each of the
sections to one another with three equidistant metal screws. Seal
with furnace cement.
The pipe must be short and straight.
To insure a good draft, the total length of the coupling pipe should never exceed 8’ to 10’ (2.4m to 3.04 m).
Installation of a “barometric draft stabilizer” (fireplace register) on a smoke exhaust system is prohibited.
Furthermore, installation of a draft damper is not recommended. Indeed, with a controlled combustion wood
appliance, the draft is regulated upon intake of the combustion air in the appliance and not at the exhaust.
Ventilation
Appliance Utilization
TYPE
WEIGHT
(LBS. CU. FT.,
DRY)
PER CORD
EFFICIENCY
RANKING
SPLITS
MILLIONS
BTU’s/CORD
Hickory
63
4500
1.0
Well
31.5
White Oak
48
4100
.9
Fair
28.6
Red Oak
46
3900
.8
Fair
27.4
Beech
45
3800
.7
Hard
26.8
Sugar Maple
44
3700
.6
Fair
26.2
Black Oak
43
3700
.6
Fair
25.6
Ash
42
3600
.5
Well
25.0
Yellow Birch
40
3400
.4
Hard
23.8
Red Maple
38
3200
.3
Fair
22.6
Paper Birch
37
3100
.3
Easy
22.1
Elm/Sycamore 34
2900
.2
Very Difficult 20.1
Red Spruce
29
1800
.1
Easy
16.1
