Harrie Leenders Pharos Interior Instructions D'utilisation page 17

Manual Pharos InterIor
We congratulate you on the purchase of your stove. This manual will inform you about the best way of using the stove and the art of keeping a perfect fire. Before using the stove,
carefully read the text about breaking in the stove. These heating instructions apply to the Pharos Interior. They are merely intended as a guideline as your stove will behave dif-
ferently according to the place where it is installed, simply because the conditions are different. The flue, the weather, the quality of the wood used and the climate conditions in
the house determine your stove's burning behaviour. In time you will develop your own directions for use, based on these heating instructions.
What you should know about the Pharos Interior
• It is an open stove with convection heat being released by the stove pipe, which ensures a fine heat distribution once the stove is burning properly.
• The bottom of the combustion chamber is lined with high-grade ceramic fire bricks. These bricks are subject to the greatest impacts (being hit by logs),
and so have been additionally reinforced.
• The draught in the flue can be reduced using the control flap, if necessary. When the stove is not being used, close the flap so that no warmth will disappear
from the room through the chimney.
The two basic rules for proper burning are:
1. Use dry and clean wood.
The stove is suitable for burning so-called 'stackable fuels': wood and briquettes. We assume you will be using dry fuels only (the moisture content of firewood should
not be more than 15%). So, this also holds for the kindling paper and cardboard. Wet fuel costs more energy, leaves moisture on the glass and soils the flue.
2. Always make sure there is enough fresh air.
In houses today, cracks and chinks have often been sealed. Opening a small grate or cantilever window will ensure sufficient fresh air, provided no fresh-air-supply
system is used.
• The main thing when making the fire is that both the flue and the stove reach the proper temperature.
the FIne heat FroM wood
You have purchased a wood stove. In many respects, wood used as fuel is an ideal choice. But what
exactly is wood? Under the influence of sunlight, a tree builds up wood cells from CO2 (carbon dioxide),
water and minerals. So, in fact, wood is stored solar energy. In its growth process, the tree takes CO2
from the air and gives off oxygen in return. Also in terms of the environment, wood is an ideal fuel.
When it is left to rot, the same amount of CO2 is released as when it is burned. In environmental terms,
we then say that wood is 'CO2-neutral'.
Only dry wood is stove wood
Not all wood qualifies as stove wood. Good burning is obtained by using wood that has been seasoned
for at least eighteen months. That is to say: preferably chopped wood that, stored under a shelter and
protected from the rain, can slowly let its moisture evaporate. Dry wood does not sizzle in the fire and
does not soot the glass.
PReFeRReD WOOD THICKNeSSeS
Preferred order of wood thicknesses to be used when you start burning the stove.
1. kindling wood (± 2x2x30cm) 2. thicker wood (± 4x4x30cm) 3. solid log (± 7x7x30cm)
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