Fuel; Wood Species And Storage; The Best Way To Burn Your Stove - WANDERS Black Pearl Bedienungsanleitung

Newly-built house or recently renovated?
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It is advisable to wait six weeks before lighting the stove in a newly-built house that has recently been completed, or in
a space that has recently been renovated drastically. The walls and ceilings still contain gases, softeners and moisture
from plasterwork or paint. The warm air-streams may discolour the dust particles in the space which may stick to
walls and ceilings. Even the moisture in the walls and ceilings will become warm and may cause yellow stains.

Fuel

Wood species and storage

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You can use all kinds of woods as fuel as long as it is clean, split and dry. Hardwood like oak, beech and
birch burn slowly, give o much heat and form charcoal easily. Softer woods like spruce, r and poplar
give more ames 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.
Wood
Fir, Poplar
Lime, Willow, Spruce, Birch, Ash, Alder
Fruit trees, Beech
Oak
The Black Pearl only burns on wood. Do not put more than 3 to 4 kg of fuel in the stove at the time. Always use
clean and cut logs, which have su ciently 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 ue pipe. This may increase the risk of chimney re.
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 ames and little or no smoke, and the re will crackle when burning. Wet wood makes a hissing sound,
gives much smoke and only small ames which will considerably dampen the pleasure of burning your stove
and the heat output.
Do not put any para n-containing logs in your stove. When the door is closed, the high heat will
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melt the para n from the logs too quickly. The polluted ue 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
ue gases are very harmful to the environment and may a ect your stove. It is also prohibited to burn
plastics and other waste matter due to poisonous smoke development.

The best way to burn your stove

All WANDERS' stoves are designed so that they give a maximum output. A well-lit wood-burning stove can
produce a yield of about 75%. This means that you need less wood for the same amount of heat. Moreover, a
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Drying time
1 year
1,5 years
2 years
2,5 years