Lighting A Fire; Burning Wood - Dru 64CB Installation Et Mode D'emploi

4.3.

Lighting a fire

In order to create sufficient draught and to prevent smoke from being emitted into the
room, the chimney should be warm enough before lighting a fire. A cold chimney can be
heated up by lighting a ball of paper above the fire plate.
To kindle the fire in the stove you can use paper and/or firelighters and small pieces of
wood.
Slightly open the door and turn the air slides wide open.
It is important that the kindled fire should burn intensely. You can then throw larger pieces
of wood onto the fire, and close the doors. When the fire has eventually stabilized and is
glowing enough, you can put the logs or the brown coal briquettes on the fire.
4.4.

Burning wood

The best way to control the fire is to completely close the primary air slide, which you
use to get the fire started, and to regulate the air supply with the secondary air slide
only. In case the air supply through the secondary air slide seems insufficient, or if you
would like to fan the fire, you can partially open the primary air slide for a while.
Always keep the stove doors tightly closed. Never leave the doors open when the fire is
burning.
Add extra fuel when necessary. Never add too much fuel. It is best to fill the stove
for one third and to top it up on a regular basis.
Always open the filling door slowly and for a short space at a time. Before filling up, the
charcoal bed should be carefully spread open. Check whether the coals are glowing
enough just behind the log retainer, so that the added fuel will immediately catch fire. If
necessary you can open the primary air slide for a while.
Open stacking will make the logs burn very intensely, as the oxygen can easily reach every
part of the fire. This method of stacking is applied when burning wood for a short while.
Compact stacking will make the fire burn slower, as the air can only reach the outer parts
of the fire. This stacking method is best used when burning for a longer while.
Low intensity fires cause tar and creosote to deposit in the chimney after a long period
of time. Tar and creosote are highly
combustible substances. Thicker layers of
these substances might catch fire when
the temperature in the chimney increases
suddenly and steeply. Therefore it is
necessary for the fire to regularly burn
very intensely, so that thin layers of tar
and creosote immediately disappear.
Low intensity fires also cause tar to
deposit on the stove panels and doors.
When it is not too cold outside it is better
to let the stove burn intensely for just a few hours a day.
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