Support; Glass Sooting Heavily, Fast And Unevenly; Fire Is Difficult To Start And To Keep Burning; Smoke Enters The Room When Replenishing Wood - Spartherm Fireplace Inserts Instruction Manual

What How often
Enamelled surfaces As required
Hot air grid As required
Ash catcher and grid As required
Space beneath ash catcher As required
Connecting piece between fire- as required but at least
place insert and flue once per year

6. SUPPORT

6.1 GLASS SOOTING HEAVILY, FAST AND UNEVENLY

If this was not the case from the onset, please ask yourself the following:
• Correct burning material and techniques used? ("2. Fuel" on page 5)
• No change of season ("4.1 Heating between seasons" on page 10)?
• No atmospheric inversion (chimney cannot build up a draft)?
• Ash tray and grid not blocked?
• Combustion air control fully open (adjustment lever on the right)?
• External combustion air duct not blocked?
• Does sooting occur quickly – within thirty minutes? (gradual sooting
during operation is normal. A car window also gets dirty when driving!)
• Is the seal correctly seated?
Only contact your specialized dealer/fireplace installer if you can reply "Yes"
to all the questions – without improvement.
With what
Moist cloth, no cleaning agents contain-
ing scouring agents
Cloth or vacuum cleaner
Empty by hand or use a special ash
cleaner
Vacuum cleaner or ash cleaner
Brush, ash cleaner
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6.2 FIRE IS DIFFICULT TO START AND TO KEEP
BURNING
If this was not the case from the onset, please ask yourself the following:
• Correct burning material and techniques used ("2. Fuel" on page 5)?
• No change of season ("4.1 Heating between seasons" on page 10)?
• No atmospheric inversion (chimney cannot build up a draft)?
• Ash tray and grid not blocked?
• Combustion air control fully open (adjustment lever on the right)?
• External combustion air duct not blocked?
Only contact your specialized dealer/fireplace installer if you can reply "Yes"
to all the questions – without improvement.
6.3 SMOKE ENTERS THE ROOM WHEN REPLENISHING
WOOD
• See all questions under Point 6.1
• Has your fireplace insert reached operating temperature already?
• Did you add wood to embers only?
• Did you open the door slowly at first?
Only contact your specialized dealer/fireplace installer if you can reply "Yes"
to all the questions – without improvement.
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