Table Of Contents - Osburn MATRIX INBUILT Installation And Operation Manual

Osburn Matrix Inbuilt 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 ....................................................................... 7
2.1 OSBURN Matrix Specifications .............................................................................................. 7
2.2 Zone Heating and How to Make it Work for You .................................................................. 9
2.3 The Benefits of Low Emissions and High Efficiency ............................................................... 9
2.4 Osburn's Commitment to You and the Environment .......................................................... 10
2.4.1 What is Your New Wood inbuilt Made Of? ..................................................................... 10
3 Fuel .............................................................................................. 11
3.1 Materials That Should Not be Burned ................................................................................. 11
3.2 How to Prepare or Buy Good Firewood .............................................................................. 11
3.2.1 What is Good Firewood? ................................................................................................. 11
3.2.2 Tree Species ..................................................................................................................... 11
3.2.3 Log Length ........................................................................................................................ 11
3.2.4 Piece Size .......................................................................................................................... 12
3.2.5 How to Dry Firewood ....................................................................................................... 12
3.2.6 Judging Firewood Moisture Content ............................................................................... 13
3.3 Manufactured Logs .............................................................................................................. 14
4 Operating Your Wood inbuilt ........................................................ 15
4.1 The use of a fire screen........................................................................................................ 15
4.2 Your First Fires ..................................................................................................................... 15
4.3 Lighting Fires ........................................................................................................................ 16
4.3.1 Conventional Fire Starting ............................................................................................... 16
4.3.2 The Top Down Fire ........................................................................................................... 16
4.3.3 Two Parallel Logs .............................................................................................................. 17
4.3.4 Using Fire Starters ............................................................................................................ 17
4.4 Maintaining Wood fires ....................................................................................................... 17
4.4.1 General Advice ................................................................................................................. 17
4.4.2 Ash Removal ..................................................................................................................... 18
4.4.3 Raking Charcoal ................................................................................................................ 18
4.4.4 Firing Each New Load Hot ................................................................................................ 19
4.4.5 Turning Down the Air Supply ........................................................................................... 19
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