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Instructions for use and Lighting instructions
When lighting the fire in your new Smålandsspis 28 for the first couple of times, it is recommended
to heat cautiously. The heat-resisting paint will be more durable (it may produce a distinctive smell
at the beginning) and also the soap stone slab on top of the oven gets dry.
NB! The stove must not be used as a combustion furnace. Other kind of fuel than what is recommended
must not be used!
Fuel
The best heating value is achieved from chopped birch wood (generally from hardwood) that
burns smoother than softwood. If you burn oak- or beech wood or another kind of wood with a
high heating value you have to mix in some other kind of wood or you will risk to harm your
fireplace. Peat pellets are also suitable.
The wood must be dry, with a moisture content of about 15-20%, and have the right size with a
length of about 250 – 300mm and a diameter of 50 – 80mm. For a normal fire-burning a quantity
of about 1,0 kg/wood an hour would be appropriate. The stoking amount should not exceed
1,2kg.
Lighting & Baking
If the chimney is cold and the draught is poor, you can try lighting some newspapers/fire starting
cubes in the flue soot door or in the soot door of the wood stove placed under the oven.
How to start a fire:
Stoke No.1:
1.
Place 3-4 pieces of smaller wood logs at the bottom of the fireplace. Put some newspapers
or preferably fire starting cubes (do not soot) on the top of the logs. Then place another 6-7
logs on top but see to it that the maximum quantity does not exceed 1.3 kg.
2.
Keep the fireplace door slightly open and set the screw at the base plate in vertical position
(open).
3.
After about 5-6 minutes, close the primary air supply (the fireplace door) and let it lean just 1
mm.
4.
Set the screw at the base plate (secondary air supply) in the proper position to let the fire
burn with a yellowish flame.
Stoke No.2:
5.
Use the poker to distribute the glowing embers over the grates.
6.
Stoke with 3 logs weighing about 1.0 kg
7.
Keep the fireplace door slightly open to let the logs catch the fire and then close the door.
8.
Set the screw at the base plate in its vertical position (open). Open the change-over damper
of the ash-pan and the sliding valve in the ash-pan to get the best draught.
9.
After about 5-6 minutes reduce the opening of the primary air supply (the sliding air valve
in the ash-pan) to about 1 mm and then after about further 2 minutes totally choke the
primary air supply.
10.
Set the screw at the base plate (secondary air) in the proper position to let the fire burn with
a yellowish flame.
Stoking the fire
Open the fireplace door slowly to avoid smoke to come out in the room. Then repeat the steps 5-
10 from chapter ”Lighting and Baking”.
NB! Never stoke with logs as long as there is a good fire in the wood stove.
