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CANADIAN OPERATION
MANUAL UPDATE
Save These
Instructions for
Future Reference #22671 4/86
Safety, and the enjoyment of your stove, are closely tied together. Your understanding and observance of safe installation,
operation and maintenance procedures will help you gain the greatest possible satisfaction from your stove.
This information sheet will help you review some important safety considerations.
1. Save the instructions and keep them available
for
5. DO NOT BURN GARBAGE OR FLAMMABLE
reference. If you sell your stove, deliver the manual with the FLUIDS SUCH AS GASOLINE, NAPTHA OR
ENGINE
stove. Please read all of the information in the Vermont OIL. Hardwood which has been cut to length, split and stored
Castings Canadian Operation Manual and the instruction sheets under cover for a year is a very good fuel. Properly seasoned
which came with accessories. They are important parts of your softwood also bums well, but is less dense and will provide less
stove. heat per full load of wood. Unseasoned wood will bum but
more stove tending and chimney maintenance may be required.
2. Do not make unauthorized changes to your stove. Do not bum other material in your stove.
Your stove is tested and listed by Underwriters' Laboratories of
Canada. Any modification not authorized by ULC and the fac- 6.
Operate
your woodbuming stove with the doors open
tory could result in your having an untested stove, and could or closed, but do not operate it with the doors part way
result in a hazardous condition. open. As you become more experienced burning your stove you
will probably be able to enjoy longer and more efficient fires
3. Do not take short cuts with your installation. "Make- with less stove tending. However, continue to pay attention to
shift" compromises may result in a hazardous condition. The safe operating practices.
clearance reductions using rear stove and stovepipe heat shields
shown in the Canadian Operation Manual have been carefully 7. Store fuel where it will be safe and out of the way.
tested. They are included in our listing with Underwriters' Storing fuel close to the stove is convenient but be sure it is at
Laboratories of Canada (ULC). Do not make any clearance least as far from the stove as the required clearance distance
reductions not approved by ULC. shown in the Chart of Clearances in the operation manual.
Your manual gives step-by-step instructions for installing your Store it where it will not interfere with loading the stove or
stove and the chimney connector (the pipe which connects the removing ashes.
flue outlet of your stove to the chimney). Pay careful attention
to all the details. 8. Load the right amount of wood
in your stove to pro-
vide the stove performance you want. For a long bum with
4. DO NOT USE CHEMICALS OR
FLUIDS TO high heat output, you may load wood to the top of the fireback
START OR RE-ESTABLISH THE FIRE. Your manual but be sure the wood does not interfere with closing the griddle
gives instructions for starting and maintaining a fire. Especially or closing the damper. Remove wood which is in the way.
when using green or unseasoned wood, you may be tempted to When heating needs are light, bum small hot fires with
take short cuts in getting the fire started, or building the fire up modest loads of wood and leave the damper open. This techni-
after it has burned low. ~!! que can provide a good combination of moderate heat in the
room and sufficient heat in the flu\: to keep the draft strong
and minimize creosote accumulation. More frequent loading will
be required. Avoid slow, smoldering bums as they may lead to
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rapid creosote build-up.
@ 1986, Vermont Castings, Inc. Prinred in U.S.A.