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USE AND SAFETY
1. Teach children fireplace safety rules.
2. Do not use the fireplace under the following conditions:
2.1 Whenever a refractory brick is missing or broken.
2.2 Whenever the ceramic glass is cracked or broken.
3. Never use flammable liquids to light or revive a fire and keep such products away from any heat source.
Before lighting a fire, make sure there are no flammable liquids, gases or fumes in the room.
4. When lighting the fire, adjust the air intake control (located at the bottom left of the fireplace) to its
maximum position. Do not leave the damper control in MAX position more than 30 minutes while the fire
is burning.
5. Prevent smoke flow reversal by preheating the chimney flue. Just hold a torch made of rolled up newspaper
towards the smoke chamber for a few minutes.
6. Valcourt fireplaces are designed to burn reasonable quantities of wood. Avoid making overly intense fires
that would damage the appliance. Do not burn garbage, painted wood or wood that has been exposed to salt
water.
DO NOT OVERHEAT
7. When using the fireplace for the first couples of times, make small fires to give the refractory brick time to
dry properly. The appearance of fine cracks in the refractory brick is normal and therefore not hazardous. It
is not a cause for concern.
8. During the first fire, you may detect a certain odor and the coating and oil protecting certain appliance parts
may smoke a little. If you open a window, these will quickly dispel.
9. To light a fire, place balled-up newspaper in the combustion chamber. Crisscross kindling wood over the
newspaper, taking care to leave air space between the sticks. Adjust the air intake control to its maximum
position. Finally, light the newspaper. Once it is well lit, close the doors leaving a ½” (12.5 mm) opening
until the kindling is burning well. To sustain a nice fire, you should maintain a bed of burning embers.
10. Add larger pieces of wood. Crisscross wood over the burning embers leaving air space between. Once the
fire is burning brightly, place 2 or 3 logs and close the doors slowly. Leave the air intake damper
completely open long enough to sustain combustion (maximum of 30 minutes).
11. If you close the doors too quickly, the temperature of the fireplace will reduce and consequently the fire’s
intensity will diminish.
12. Leave the air intake damper in maximum open position until the logs are burning brightly. Do not keep
feeding the fire with softwood kindling and construction waste wood, because these would produce a very
hot fire that may damage the combustion chamber.
13. Expansion and contraction noises during the heating and cooling cycle are normal. They are caused by the
normal expansion of fireplace components.
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