Fuel; Wood Species And Storage; Lighting The Stove - WANDERS Peppel Bedienungsanleitung Und Montagevorschriften

Fuel

Wood
Fir, Poplar
Lime, Willow, Spruce, Birch, Ash, Alder
Fruit trees, Beech
Peppel
The Peppel only burns on wood. Do not put more than 1-1,5 kg of fuel in the stove at the time. Always use clean and cut logs,
which have sufficiently dried. Please see the above list for drying times. Wet wood does not burn well and gives heavy smoke
emission. It may blacken the glass pane of your stove with soot and build up smut in the flue pipe. This may increase the risk
of chimney fire.
Fresh, moist wood contains about 50% moisture. Cleaved wood still contains 20% moisture after drying it for a year and
moisture percentage will be decreased to 12 to 15% after drying it for two years. Dry wood gives nice flames and little or no
smoke, and the fire will crackle when burning. Wet wood makes a hissing sound, gives much smoke and only small flames
which will considerably dampen the pleasure of burning your stove and the heat output.

Wood species and storage

You can use all kinds of woods as fuel as long as it is clean, split and dry. Hardwood like Peppel, beech and birch burn slowly,
give off much heat and form charcoal easily. Softer woods like spruce, fir and poplar give more flames but less heat and less
charcoal.
The best place to store timber is in a windy spot but sheltered from the rain. This is how the logs can dry in a natural way. Pile
the logs on an old pallet or a frame to let the wood dry from underneath and to prevent the lower logs from being in contact
with water.
Do not put any paraffin-containing logs in your stove. When the door is closed, the high heat will melt the paraffin
from the logs too quickly. The polluted flue gasses which consequently develop will deposit on and burn in the
glass of your stove and cannot be removed later.
Do not use any wood that is painted, impregnated, glued together or processed in any other way. The flue gases
are very harmful to the environment and may affect your stove. It is also prohibited to burn plastics and other
waste matter due to poisonous smoke development.

Lighting the stove

Lighting your stove early in autumn or late in winter
When the external and internal temperatures do not differ much, a proper chimney draught is a challenge. Early
in autumn or late in winter you can help chimney draught get started by burning some wood while keeping all
air inlets maximally open. An abundant air supply speeds up quick heating which in turn increases the draught
in the chimney. Lighting up the stove with only a little wood prevents smoke from streaming into the room.
The stove will become very hot when you light it and will need at least two hours to cool off. Don't touch the stove
without protection during firing and for two hours after. Handle the stove always with a glove to avoid getting
serious burns.
First read the chapter on "Lighting for the first time" on page 14 when using the fireplace for the first time. Before lighting the
fireplace, you may want to wipe any dirt from the windows with some paper towel.
Open the combustion air supply (A). Fully slide the air valve to the open position before lighting the wood-burning stove.
Then open the door and stack a few blocks of wood in the fireplace with a few small pieces of wood and firelighter blocks
on top (top down burning method, see page 44). Light the firelighter blocks and leave the door ajar for a few minutes (5-10)
minutes to ensure a primary air supply and to allow the chimney to draw more quickly.
Drying time
1 year
1,5 years
2 years
2,5 years
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