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A. Over-Firing Your Appliance

B. Wood Selection & Storage

Burn only dry seasoned wood. Store wood under cover,

out of the rain and snow. Dry and well-seasoned wood will

not only minimize the chance of creosote formation, but will

give you the most efcient re. Even dry wood contains at

least 15% moisture by weight, and should be burned hot

enough to keep the chimney hot for as long as it takes to

dry the wood out - about one hour. It is a waste of energy to

burn unseasoned wood of any kind.

Dead wood lying on the forest oor should be considered

wet, and requires full seasoning time. Standing dead wood

can be considered to be about 2/3 seasoned. To tell if wood

is dry enough to burn, check the ends of the logs. If there

are cracks radiating in all directions from the center, it is dry.

If your wood sizzles in the re, even though the surface is

dry, it may not be fully cured.

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product and use & care videos.

1. Symptoms of Over-Firing

Symptoms of over-ring may include one or more of

the following:

- Chimney connector or appliance glowing

- Roaring, rumbling noises

- Loud cracking or banging sounds

- Metal warping

- Chimney re

2. What To Do if Your Appliance is Over-Firing

- Immediately close the door and air controls to reduce

air supply to the re.

- If you suspect a chimney re, call the re department

and evacuate your house.

- Contact your local chimney professional and have

your appliance and appliance pipe inspected for

any damage.

- Do not use your appliance until the chimney

professional informs you it is safe to do so.

Hearth & Home Technologies WILL NOT warranty

appliances that exhibit evidence of over-ring. Evidence

of over-ring includes, but is not limited to:

• Warped air tube

• Deteriorated refractory brick retainers

• Deteriorated bafe and other interior components

2 2 Operating Instructions

Fire Risk. Do not over-re.

Over-ring may ignite creosote or will damage

the appliance and chimney.

To prevent over-ring your appliance,

DO NOT:

• Use ammable liquids

• Overload with wood

• Burn trash or large amounts of scrap lumber

• Permit too much air to the re

WARNING

Splitting wood before it is stored reduces drying time.

Wood should be stacked so that both ends of each piece

are exposed to air, since more drying occurs through the

cut ends than the sides. This is true even with wood that

has been split. Store wood under cover, such as in a shed,

or covered with a tarp, plastic, tar paper, sheets of scrap

plywood, etc., as uncovered wood can absorb water from

rain or snow, delaying the seasoning process.

C. Burning Process

In recent years there has been an increasing concern

about air quality. Much of the blame for poor air quality

has been placed on the burning of wood for home heating.

In order to improve the situation, we at Quadra-Fire

have developed cleaner-burning wood appliances that

surpass the requirements for emissions established by our

governing agencies. These wood appliances, like any other

appliances, must be properly operated in order to insure

that they perform the way they are designed to perform.

Improper operation can turn most any wood appliance into

a smoldering environmental hazard.

1. Kindling or First Stage: It helps to know a little about

the actual process of burning in order to understand

what goes on inside a appliance. The rst stage of

burning is called the kindling stage. In this stage,

the wood is heated to a temperature high enough to

evaporate the moisture which is present in all wood.

The wood will reach the boiling point of water (212°F)

and will not get any hotter until the water is evaporated.

This process takes heat from the coals and tends to

cool the appliance.

Fire requires three things to burn - fuel, air and heat. So,

if heat is robbed from the appliance during the drying

stage, the new load of wood has reduced the chances

for a good clean burn. For this reason, it is always best

to burn dry, seasoned rewood. When the wood isn’t

dry, you must open the air controls and burn at a high

burn setting for a longer time to start it burning. The

heat generated from the re should be warming your

home and establishing the ue draft, not evaporating

the moisture out of wet, unseasoned wood, resulting in

wasted heat.

2. Second Stage: The next stage of burning, the

secondary stage, is the period when the wood gives off

ammable gases which burn above the fuel with bright

ames. During this stage of burning it is very important

that the ames be maintained and not allowed to go

out. This will ensure the cleanest possible re. If the

ames tend to go out, it is set too low for your burning

conditions. The air control located at the upper right

hand corner is used to adjust for burn rates. This is

called the Burn Rate Air Control (Figure 10.1).

3. Final Stage: The nal stage of burning is the charcoal

stage. This occurs when the ammable gases have

been mostly burned and only charcoal remains. This

is a naturally clean portion of the burn. The coals burn

with hot blue ames.

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