7.1 AIR CONTROL
7.2 FIRE EXTINGUISHERS / SMOKE DETECTORS
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FOR RE-FUELING AND ASH REMOVAL.
IGNITED IT CAN CAUSE A CHIMNEY FIRE THAT MAY RESULT IN A SERIOUS HOUSE FIRE.
a good draft. At this point, the roaring re that you see when the door is opened is wastefully drawing heated room air up the
chimney, certainly not desirable. Always operate with the door fully closed once the medium sized logs have caught re.
You can now add larger pieces of wood and operate the appliance normally. Once the appliance is entirely hot,
it will burn very efciently with little smoke from the chimney. There will be a bed of orange coals in the rebox
and secondary ames ickering just below the top bafes. You can safely ll the rebox with wood to the top
of the door and will get best burns if you keep the appliance pipe temperatures between 250°F (120°C) and 450°F
(270°C). A surface thermometer will help regulate this.
Without a appliance thermometer, you are working blindly and have no idea of how the appliance is operating!
An appliance thermometer offers a guide to performance and should be located 14” (356mm) above the ue
collar. Install the thermometer according to manufacturers instructions.
Use more kindling and paper. Assuming the chimney and vent are sized correctly and there is sufcient com-
bustion air, the lack of sufciently dry quantities of small kindling is the problem. Thumb size is a good gauge
for small kindling diameter.
One of two things may have happened. The appliance door may have been closed prematurely and the appli-
ance itself has not reached optimum temperature. Re-open the door and/or draft control to re-establish a brisk
re. The other problem may have been wet wood. The typical symptom is sizzling wood and moisture being
driven from the wood.
Draft is the force which moves air from the rebox up through the chimney. The amount of draft in your chim-
ney depends on the length and diameter of chimney, local geography, nearby obstructions and other factors
including the amount of heat generated by the re which
can be measured by an appliance thermometer.
Adjusting the air control all the way to the left reduces the
temperature. The draft can be adjusted from low to high
by moving the handle from left to right.
Inadequate draft may cause back-pufng into the room
through the appliance and chimney connector points
and may cause plugging of the chimney. Too much draft
may cause an excessive temperature in the appliance,
glowing red appliance parts or chimney connectors or an
uncontrollable burn which can lead to a chimney re or
permanent damage to the appliance.
Do not operate your appliance for longer than 30 minutes
with the draft control on “HIGH” (fully open).
7.3 FUEL
91.1
All homes with a solid fuel burning appliance should have at least one re extinguisher in a central location,
known to all, and at least one smoke detector in the room containing the appliance. If it sounds an alarm,
correct the cause but do not de-activate or relocate the smoke detector.
AIR CONTROL
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