Table Of Contents; General Information; Operating Your Insert - Osburn MATRIX Installation And Operation Manual

Matrix 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 Matrix Insert Specifications ................................................................................................... 8
2.2 Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You ................................................................ 10
2.3 The Benefits of Low Emissions and High Efficiency ............................................................. 11
2.4 The SBI Commitment to You and the Environment ............................................................ 11
2.4.1 What is Your New Insert Made Of? ................................................................................. 11
3 Fuel .................................................................................................. 13
3.1 Materials That Should Not be Burned ................................................................................. 13
3.2 How to Prepare or Buy Good Firewood .............................................................................. 13
3.2.1 What is Good Firewood? ................................................................................................. 13
3.2.2 Tree Species ..................................................................................................................... 13
3.2.3 Log Length ........................................................................................................................ 14
3.2.4 Piece Size .......................................................................................................................... 14
3.2.5 How to Dry Firewood ....................................................................................................... 15
3.2.6 Judging Firewood Moisture Content ............................................................................... 16
3.3 Manufactured Logs .............................................................................................................. 16
4 Operating Your Insert....................................................................... 17
4.1 The use of a fire screen........................................................................................................ 17
4.2 Your First Fires ..................................................................................................................... 17
4.3 Lighting Fires ........................................................................................................................ 17
4.3.1 Conventional Fire Starting ............................................................................................... 18
4.3.2 The Top Down Fire ........................................................................................................... 18
4.3.3 Two Parallel Logs .............................................................................................................. 19
4.3.4 Using Fire Starters ............................................................................................................ 19
4.4 Maintaining Wood Fires ...................................................................................................... 19
4.4.1 General Advice ................................................................................................................. 19
4.4.2 Ash Removal ..................................................................................................................... 20
4.4.3 Raking Charcoal ................................................................................................................ 20
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