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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 e󰀩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.
Visit www.quadrare.com/shopping-tools/videos to view
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 ba󰀪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 o󰀨
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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