Table Of Contents - Osburn 2000 Installation And Operation Manual

2000 Insert Installation and Operation Manual
PART A - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ............................................... 6
1 Safety Information ................................................................................ 6
1.1 Summary of Operation and Maintenance Cautions and Warnings ...................................... 6
2 General Information ............................................................................. 8
2.1 oSBURN 2000 insert Specifications ....................................................................................... 8
2.2 Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You ................................................................ 1 0
2.3 The Benefits of Low Emissions and High Efficiency . ............................................................ 1 1
2.4 The SBI Commitment to You and the Environment ............................................................ 1 1
2.4.1 What is Your New Insert Made Of? ................................................................................. 1 1
3 Fuel
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3.1 Materials That Should Not be Burned . ................................................................................ 1 2
3.2 How to Prepare or Buy Good Firewood .............................................................................. 1 2
3.2.1 What is Good Firewood? ................................................................................................. 1 2
3.2.2 Tree Species ..................................................................................................................... 1 2
3.2.3 Log Length . ....................................................................................................................... 1 3
3.2.4 Piece Size . ......................................................................................................................... 1 3
3.2.5 How to Dry Firewood ....................................................................................................... 1 4
3.2.6 Judging Firewood Moisture Content ............................................................................... 1 5
3.3 Manufactured Logs . ............................................................................................................. 1 5
4 Operating Your Insert ......................................................................... 16
4.1 The use of a fire screen........................................................................................................ 1 6
4.2 Your First Fires ..................................................................................................................... 1 6
4.3 Lighting Fires . ....................................................................................................................... 1 6
4.3.1 Conventional Fire Starting ............................................................................................... 1 7
4.3.2 The Top Down Fire ........................................................................................................... 1 7
4.3.3 Two Parallel Logs . ............................................................................................................. 1 8
4.3.4 Using Fire Starters . ........................................................................................................... 1 8
4.4 Maintaining Wood Fires ...................................................................................................... 1 8
4.4.1 General Advice ................................................................................................................. 1 8
4.4.2 Ash Removal . .................................................................................................................... 1 9
4.4.3 Raking Charcoal . ............................................................................................................... 1 9
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