Lighting The Stove For The First Time; Fuel; Drying Time - WANDERS Square 60 Mode D'emploi Et Instructions D'installation

Lighting the stove for the first time

Discolouration of walls, ceilings and grates
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The walls, ceilings and grates may show some discolouration after lighting your hearth. This is caused
by the dust particles that burn in the convection cover. This is a natural process for which WANDERS
cannot be held responsible. To minimize discolouring we refer to the advice given for atmospheric
hearths. Your installer can give you more information about this.
When you light the Square for the first time, the hearth must still 'anneal' and temper itself. The unit has a heat
resistant lacquer which must burn in the stove at temperatures above 400 °Celsius. This will happen during
the first few times of lighting the stove and temperatures rise to 600 °C. Though this may give an unpleasant
smell, it is otherwise harmless. It is advisable to keep the stove burning with limited fuel for at least 6 hours
when lighting the stove for the first 4 or 5 times. Air the room well when the stove is burning. Make sure that
any cooking hood is not turned on when the stove is burning; a cooking hood extracts the combustion air that
the stove needs.
Some deposit may form on the glass panes of the stove when you 'anneal' your hearth. You can easily remove
this deposit with a damp cloth after the stove has cooled down. You can also use some cleansing agent for
ceramic rings. Please make sure you do not leave any finger marks on the clean glass. Finger marks burn into
the glass and cannot be removed later.
Newly-built house or recently renovated?
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It is advisable to wait six weeks before lighting the stove in a newly-built house that has recently
been completed, or in a space that has recently been renovated drastically. The walls and ceilings still
contain gases, softeners and moisture from plasterwork or paint. The warm air-streams may discolour
the dust particles in the space which may stick to walls and ceilings. Even the moisture in the walls and
ceilings will become warm and may cause yellow stains.

Fuel

Wood
Fir, Poplar
Lime, Willow, Spruce, Birch, Ash, Alder
Fruit trees, Beech
Oak
The Square only burns on wood. Do not put more than 1 to 2 kg of fuel in the stove at the time. Always use
clean and cut logs, which have sufficiently dried. Please see the list for drying times. Wet wood does not burn
well and gives heavy smoke emission. It may blacken the glass pane of your stove with soot and build up smut
in the flue pipe. This may increase the risk of chimney fire.
Fresh, moist wood contains about 50% moisture. Cleaved wood still contains 20% moisture after drying it for
a year and moisture percentage will be decreased to 12 to 15% after drying it for two years. Dry wood gives
nice flames and little or no smoke, and the fire will crackle when burning. Wet wood makes a hissing sound,
gives much smoke and only small flames which will considerably dampen the pleasure of burning your stove
and the heat output.
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Drying time

1 year
1,5 years
2 years
2,5 years