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OWNER MANUAL
ALBIECORE™ HEATER OPERATING AND
MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS
The Maine Wood Heat Company has been
designing and building masonry heaters for
nearly 30 years. We have been an integral part
of the development of masonry heaters in the
United States from the beginning and are very
pleased to still be a part of this very significant
technology today. We welcome you into this
ever-growing family of heater owners. We
are grateful to have played a role in the new
heart of your home and we offer the following
information to help you become familiar with
your heater's operation and care. Your new
heater should serve and warm you for many
years to come.
Warm Regards,
Albie, Cheryl, and Scott Barden
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR HEATER:
Your heater is equipped with one or two sets of
loading doors each of which have primary draft
slides. You also have an ash box door with a
draft slide and if you chose to have a bake oven,
you will have a bake oven door with a screw out
draft control.
In addition, your heater is equipped with a
sliding shut off damper with a wooden handle,
as well as a by-pass channel with a pivoting
weighted handle.
Finally, if your installation called for it, you may
have a cast iron pivoting ash dump located on
the floor of the ash box.
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LEANOUTS AND SOOT DOORS
In the basement, your wood heater flue typically
has an 8" x 8" cast iron soot door at the base of
the chimney. It should be kept tightly closed
except when inspecting or cleaning the chimney.
You also have an 8" x 8" cleanout door mounted
on the second or third course of the heater's
block foundation. Its purpose is to give you
access for annual or biannual ash removal from
the heater above.
If you have a second flue on the chimney it too is
equipped with an 8" x 8" cast iron clean out and
a 6"or 7" galvanized thimble to service a gas or
oil fired appliance.
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ARE DURING CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSE
It is very important to understand that your
heater should not be used by anyone but
yourselves. If anyone fills the heater with trash
or kindling or construction scraps, the firebox
could over heat and cause stress cracking.
While the house is being completed the bench
and heater cap should be covered with plywood
and workers should not be allowed to use the
bench as a ladder, storage area or workbench.
The same should apply to the cap area.
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Summary of Contents for Maine Wood Heat Company ALBIECORE
- Page 1 MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS LEANOUTS AND SOOT DOORS In the basement, your wood heater flue typically The Maine Wood Heat Company has been has an 8” x 8” cast iron soot door at the base of designing and building masonry heaters for the chimney.
- Page 2 Do not wrap the heater with plastic. This will Fly ash building up in the channels can be hold in moisture, not allow the heater to breath vacuumed out once or twice a year with a shop and cure, and will cause the metal doors to rust. vacuum inserted into the base of the channels through the soot doors.
- Page 3 10) On top of kindling add three or four more TARTING A NORMAL FIRE sheets of crumpled newspaper. “T ” 11) Light the top layer of newspaper. 1) Make sure basement cleanout and thimble is closed tight. 12) Close the large loading doors and stay with the fire.
- Page 4 ash box door will create a very strong draft and flame, but this excessive air will actually cause a less efficient burn than one with air coming in primarily through the loading doors. The fire has become well established and flames are extending into the bake oven/secondary burn chamber.
- Page 5 16) Watch the flame. A clean burn is a happy AFETY looking fire. It will be bright yellow or white and even blue near the coals once the burn is The shut off damper is equipped with a 5% cut well underway.
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Page 6: Outside Air
it. When this happens, the firebrick goes into instructions on the can or bottle. shock and will start to spall and/or crack. UTSIDE Exterior brick and stone joints may develop minor hairline cracks, which will open and close It is customary in a new tight house to supply as the heater cycles. -
Page 7: Fine Tuning
out with a hoe and dust mask in warm weather. DO NOT FORGET TO REMOVE THE PIZZA Questions- Call us 207-696-5442 or email us at STONE AFTER YOUR COOKING IS DONE. Left mwhcoinc@prexar.com in place the stone will block the oven throat and cause the heater to smoke out around the doors TUNING at the next burn.