Matrix Insert Installation and Operation Manual
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Table of content
PART A - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE .............................................. 6
1 Safety Information ............................................................................. 6
1.1
Summary of Operation and Maintenance Cautions and Warnings ...................................... 6
2 General Information .......................................................................... 8
2.1
Matrix Insert Specifications ................................................................................................... 8
2.2
Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You ................................................................ 10
2.3
The Benefits of Low Emissions and High Efficiency ............................................................. 11
2.4
The SBI Commitment to You and the Environment ............................................................ 11
2.4.1
What is Your New Insert Made Of? ................................................................................. 11
3 Fuel .................................................................................................. 13
3.1
Materials That Should Not be Burned ................................................................................. 13
3.2
How to Prepare or Buy Good Firewood .............................................................................. 13
3.2.1
What is Good Firewood? ................................................................................................. 13
3.2.2
Tree Species ..................................................................................................................... 13
3.2.3
Log Length ........................................................................................................................ 14
3.2.4
Piece Size .......................................................................................................................... 14
3.2.5
How to Dry Firewood ....................................................................................................... 15
3.2.6
Judging Firewood Moisture Content ............................................................................... 16
3.3
Manufactured Logs .............................................................................................................. 16
4 Operating Your Insert....................................................................... 17
4.1
The use of a fire screen........................................................................................................ 17
4.2
Your First Fires ..................................................................................................................... 17
4.3
Lighting Fires ........................................................................................................................ 17
4.3.1
Conventional Fire Starting ............................................................................................... 18
4.3.2
The Top Down Fire ........................................................................................................... 18
4.3.3
Two Parallel Logs .............................................................................................................. 19
4.3.4
Using Fire Starters ............................................................................................................ 19
4.4
Maintaining Wood Fires ...................................................................................................... 19
4.4.1
General Advice ................................................................................................................. 19
4.4.2
Ash Removal ..................................................................................................................... 20
4.4.3
Raking Charcoal ................................................................................................................ 20
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