KEDDY K800 Series Installation Instructions Manual - page 14
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GOOD TO KNOW
Since it can take some time for a cold chimney to start
working properly, i.e. to force the smoke in the right
direction, you can light a couple of sheets of news-
paper and hold them up in front of the smoke shelf in
the hearth. In this way, you eliminate the downdraught
and avoid the nuisance of smoke entering the room in
the initial stage.
If the premises are equipped with mechanical venti-
lation, i.e. if there are one or more fans to evacuate
the air from the building, there could be such a large
negative pressure in the building that it could be diffi-
cult to light the stove. As a suggestion, you could turn
off the ventilation temporarily or open a window until
the negative pressure has dissipated.
Firing with too coarsely chopped wood or with too little
oxygen supply, so-called smoulder combustion, can
be risky. In part, this increases the amount of soot
and tar due to poor combustion, which could cause a
chimney fire. Secondly, this could lead to small gas
explosions, which may damage the stove. In addition
to this, the smoke from the chimney will be unhealthy
and cause inconvenience to your neighbours.
Depending on the weather conditions and the length
and area of the chimney, among other things, you
may also get smoke in the room when you open the
door. In order to counteract this, open the door ajar
and let the fire stabilise itself, in relation to the ad-
ditional oxygen supply, and wait before adding more
wood, until the old fire has burnt out.
REMOVAL OF SOOT AND MAINTENANCE
Soot must be removed at least once per season. The
soot from the chimney and the connections should
be removed by a chimney sweep. The smoke shelf
and the vertical hearth plates must be removed during
sweeping. You will find instructions on how this is done
under point 3 on page 7. NOTE: Take care when you
clean the heat probe installed in the hearth roof.
If the glass becomes sooty, it is best to use a special
soot remover, which you can buy from your local stove
dealer. Never use detergents containing abrasive ma-
terials. This damages the glass.
TIP! Soot stains on glass are easily removed as fol-
lows:
1. Moisten a piece of soft kitchen paper with water.
2. Rub some ash from the hearth onto the kitchen
paper.
3. Remove the soot stain by rubbing with the kitchen
paper.
When you empty the ash pan, lift the grate by hand
(use gloves). Lift the ash pan out carefully. The ash
pan should be full when you have burned approx. 250
litres of firewood. Pay attention to the risk of fire
when you throw out the ash, as the ash may con-
tain live embers for a very long time!
IMPORTANT! If there is a chimney fire, the stove door
and the supply air control must be closed. In order to
be able to close the damper in automatic mode,
you must disconnect the plug from the wall.
If
necessary, call the fire brigade. After a chimney fire,
the chimney must be inspected and approved by a
certified chimney sweep, before the stove can be put
into us again.