Table Of Contents - Drolet DB03101 Installation And Operation Manual

Installation and Operation Manual for Escape 1800
PART A - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ........................................................ 5
1 Safety Information ........................................................................................... 5
1.1 Summary of Operation and Maintenance Cautions and Warnings .................................................................... 5
2 General Information ......................................................................................... 6
2.1 Escape 1800 with Blower Specifications ........................................................................................................... 6
2.2 Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You ............................................................................................... 9
2.3 The Benefits of Low Emissions and High Efficiency .......................................................................................... 9
2.4 The SBI Commitment to You and the Environment ......................................................................................... 10
2.4.1 What is Your New Stove Made Of? ............................................................................................................. 10
3 Fuel .................................................................................................................. 11
3.1 Materials That Should Not be Burned.............................................................................................................. 11
3.2 How to Prepare or Buy Good Firewood ........................................................................................................... 11
3.2.1 What is Good Firewood? ............................................................................................................................. 11
3.2.2 Tree Species ............................................................................................................................................... 11
3.2.3 Log Length .................................................................................................................................................. 12
3.2.4 Piece Size ................................................................................................................................................... 12
3.2.5 How to Dry Firewood ................................................................................................................................... 13
3.2.6 Judging Firewood Moisture Content ............................................................................................................ 14
3.3 Manufactured Logs .......................................................................................................................................... 14
4 Operating Your Stove .................................................................................... 15
4.1 The use of a fire screen. .................................................................................................................................. 15
4.2 Your First Fires ................................................................................................................................................ 15
4.3 Lighting Fires ................................................................................................................................................... 15
4.3.1 Conventional Fire Starting ........................................................................................................................... 16
4.3.2 The Top Down Fire ..................................................................................................................................... 16
4.3.3 Two Parallel Logs ........................................................................................................................................ 17
4.3.4 Using Fire Starters ...................................................................................................................................... 17
4.4 Maintaining Wood Fires ................................................................................................................................... 17
4.4.1 General Advice............................................................................................................................................ 17
4.4.2 Ash Removal ............................................................................................................................................... 18
4.4.3 Raking Charcoal .......................................................................................................................................... 18
4.4.4 Firing Each New Load Hot .......................................................................................................................... 19
4.4.5 Turning Down the Air Supply ...................................................................................................................... 19
4.4.6 Building Different Fires for Different Needs ................................................................................................. 20
5 Maintaining Your Wood Heating System ..................................................... 23
5.1 Stove Maintenance .......................................................................................................................................... 23
5.1.1 Cleaning Door Glass ................................................................................................................................... 23
5.1.2 Door adjustment .......................................................................................................................................... 24
5.1.3 Replacing the Door Gasket ......................................................................................................................... 24
5.1.4 Replacing the Glass Gasket and/or the Glass ............................................................................................ 25
5.1.5 Cleaning and Painting the Stove ................................................................................................................. 26
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