Cleaning The Stove - Morso 8100 Instruction Manual

Reasons for overly rapid wear of internal parts
- Stove fired too vigorously
Use of very dry wood (wood from old furniture)
- too much soot on top of the baffles (please see the section on Cleaning)
- too much ash in the ash pan (please see the section on Ash)
Gaskets
The gaskets in the door will wear out over time, and should be replaced as required in order to
prevent runaway combustion. Use the original Morsø gasket kit.
nOte: normal wearing parts are not covered by Morsø's extended warranty.
A selection of maintenance products (spare parts, glass cleaner, paint, gasket kit, etc.) is avail-
able from your Morsø dealer.

3.3 Cleaning the stove

A layer of ash and soot will form as a result of the draught in the chimney and after sweeping,
particularly on the top of the upper baffle. This ash will have an insulating effect, which may
speed up the burn-through of the baffles.
During normal cleaning, the baffles can be removed from the stove. Once the baffles have
been taken out, you can access the flue chamber above the baffles and clean it.
Clean the baffles before reassembling them, and make sure that they are correctly assembled.
Nowadays the chimney sweep must remove the soot in the stove, in addition to sweeping the
chimney and cleaning the flue pipe.
The number of annual sweepings/cleanings of the stove should be determined in consultation
with your chimney sweep.
Ash
As noted above, there should be a layer of approximately 1 cm insulating ash in the bottom of
the combustion chamber in order to achieve a high combustion temperature. If the layer of ash
is too thick, it can be brushed down into the ash pan.
Empty the ash pan before it gets completely full, so that the ash does not insulate around the
grate, and thereby speed up the burn-through.
In most cases, the ash will need to be taken away by the waste disposal company. Because
embers may be concealed in the ash pan for several days, it may be necessary to store the ash
in a container made of non-flammable material before pouring it into a rubbish bag.
Ash from a wood-burning stove will not be of any benefit to your garden as fertiliser. If you
have burned colour brochures, or painted or treated wood, etc., in the stove, the resulting ash
must not be poured onto soil, as it may contain heavy metals.
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