First Lighting - Hergom HERITAGE Libro De Instrucciones Para Instalación, Mantenimiento Y Uso

Therefore, green wood lights with difficulty and must be stored for a year to be able to
used in your stove.
In order to prepare green wood, it must be chopped and stacked in order to enable
contact with dry air for a year.
Store the wood on boards or blocks to keep it off the ground and cover only the top of the
stack. Plastics or canvasses used to cover the sides of the wood stack retain the damp and
prevent the wood from drying.
Do not stack wood close to the stove. Do so at the distances specified for combustible
materials (see page 25/26)
PRECAUTION
DO NOT USE CHEMICAL OR INFLAMMABLE FLUIDS SUCH AS PETROL,
NAPHTHLINE, KEROSINE, GAS - OILS, OILS, PELLETS, COAL, ARTIFICIAL WOOD OR ANY
OTHER MATERIAL TO LIGHT YOUR STOVE. DO NOT BURN RUBBISH.
Having understood your stove's controls and having chosen the right wood, you are
ready to light the fire.
2.1.3 - LIGHTING YOUR FIRE
It is essential that the fire should be lit slowly for the first time.
The cast iron must be tempered: excessive fire on a new stove can cause cracks in the
iron or damage other parts of the stove.
The vocanic stones of the walls of the stove must be heated slowly to remove any damp
in the stones and in the cement joints.
When lighting your first fire, the stove will give off some smokes and gases.
This is normal due to the evaporation of the components of the paint and oils used in
making your stove.
If you consider it necessary, open a window to ventilate the room. The smoke and gases
normally persist for the first 10 or 20 minutes of lighting and will disappear when the stove is
"cured".
The first times it is lit, other smells may be given off by the materials around the stove,
which will disappear with time. To reduce the smells, open the windows and create ventilation
around your stove.

FIRST LIGHTING

h) Open the door and place a couple of lighters in the bottom. Place some twigs
crosed over the lighters; place around 10 pieces with a diameter of 10/15 and a
length of 25/40 cm.
i) Open the primary air control completely by sliding the control to the left.
j) Light the lighters. Leave the front door ajar, not completely closed, until the twigs
begin to burn and the draught begins to rise.
k) Close the door and allow the fire to light. Keep the door closed while the stove is
working. Make sure the door to the ash tray is well closed.
l) WATCH THE FIRE ALL OF THE TIME to keep it low. The first fire must heat the
stove, but should not burn when touched. You should add some pieces of wood to
the fire to achieve the right temperature for the first lighting.
m) When the stove is warm but does not burn to the touch, close the primary air by
sliding the control to the right and allow the fire to go out completely.
n) Let your stove cool completely.
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