Stoking Instructions; Initial Lighting; Maintenance - Jydepejsen Cosmo 971 Mode D'emploi

4. Stoking instructions

It is very important to ensure that your chimney has a decent draught. The Alpha and Omega is the cooperation between the
chimney and the stove. Your dealer or your chimney sweep will be able to guide and advice you on your chimney conditions.
When this is settled, the next step is that you make the stove and the chimney cooperate. This is done by following the opera-
ting instructions and using fuel which inflames easily in the combustion chamber, until a decent draught is obtained.
For further information on correct lighting and stoking, please refer to Jydepejsen´s Manual for installation and stoking.
Please note that the stove paint will harden during the first few initial lightings. This means that the stove will generate
smoke and an odour of paint, which will dissipate after about 1 hours´s operation. It is a good idea to ensure effective
ventilation during this phase. Also, touching the stove should be avoided, since this may cause the paint to scale.
The stove will expand and contract during the lighting and cooling phase, possibly resulting in creaking noises. This phenomenon
is completely normal for sheet-iron stoves, and cannot be regarded as a fault.
All Jydepejsen wood-burning stoves are intermittent, which means that new wood should be added when there is a layer of
embers in the burning chamber.
Once there is a good bed of embers in the stove, you can add wood. It is important not to open the door while there are flames
in the stove, as this may cause smoke to flow out into the room. Add wood on the basis of your heating requirements. The
amount of wood you need to add will depend on the season. However, never add more than 2 kg of wood every 1.5–2 hours.
Please remember that the exterior surfaces of the stove in particular will become very hot during firing.

Initial lighting

1. Turn the air intake to the maximum.
2. Add firelighters and billets to the bottom of the fire box (combustion chamber).
3. The billets (about 1,5 kg) are to be built up crosswise.
4. Light the fire.
5. The door should be ajar for a couple of minutes during the lighting phase.
6. The air intake must be adjusted down after approx. 10 minutes; how much depends on the chimney draught however, the air
supply must be diminished to the point where you obtain steady and calm flames.
Stoking
1. Turn the air intake to the maximum.
2. To minimize the underpressure, the door should be ajar for about one minute before you open it completely.
3. Open the door slowly.
4. Add 2 – 3 pieces of firewood to the combustion chamber.
5. Close the door.
6. Turn down the air supply when the fire has caught the wood, to obtain steady and calm flames.

5. Maintenance

Sealing band and vermiculite panels are wearing parts which need to be renewed. How often this is needed depends
on how much you use your stove. In some cases every year, others every second or third year. A principal rule is that
the sealing band needs renewal when it is flattened, and the door no longer fits tightly against the front of the stove. A
new set of sealing band with glue can be purchased from your local dealer.
Vermiculite panels must be renewed when they are worn thin, or when possible cracks are so wide that you can actually see
steel through them. If the panels are not renewed on such occations, they lose their power of insulation and
heat reflection.
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