Burning Instructions And Tips; Fuel; Amount Of Wood; Suitable Types Of Wood - Dru Dik Geurts Aste 5 Low Mode D'emploi

5. Burning instructions and tips

Below you will find tips and instructions that are important for a good operation of your fire.

5.1 Fuel

Good fuel is the 'engine' of your fire. You will benefit the most from your fire, if you burn it with high quality, well
dried wood or wood briquettes. In this way you will prevent unwanted additional effects like excess smoke
formation as a result of poor combustion, insufficient heat yield and poor efficiency. The fire is only suitable to be
filled with clean wood or wood briquettes.
Wood is usually purchased in cubic metres. However, there are many types of 'cubes' available on the market:
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Dry wood
Wood must be properly dry. Freshly felled wood is not suitable, as it contains too much moist (approx.
60%). Oven-dried wood, on the other hand, is suitable. Therefore, you should allow the wood to dry for at least one
year, and preferably for two to three years. The wood will dry if you store it outside under a lean-to (i.e. not in the
garage), preferably in a sunny location. This will allow the wind (but not the rain) to get to it. Short, split stems will
dry the quickest. After drying, they only contain 15 to 20% moist and will provide the highest output.
Dry wood will generate a bright sound when you hit two blocks together. At the front side there will be shrinkage
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cracks and the bark will come loose easily.
We recommend using a moisture gauge to measure the moist percentage of the burning wood. It will be available
at your supplier.
In order to determine the moist percentage correctly, please pay attention to the following:
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5.1.1 Amount of wood

You must observe the recommended volume of wood blocks (number AND dimensions) provided in Appendix 1,
Table 2. When a larger volume is used, the heat delivery will increase. In that case, the fire could get overloaded, as a
result of which parts could get damaged and/or the walls of the fire will discolour. The glass pane could also
blacken sooner. If the fire is burning too hard, you should use coarser/harder wood.
Always heat the appliance to capacity. Gross, 1 kg of dry burning wood will supply approx. 4 kWh (kilowatt hour) of
energy. For example: for an appliance with a capacity of 4-8 kWh, you must add 1-2 kg of firewood every 45
minutes.
The capacity of your fire can be seen in the installation manual in appendix 2 and on the data plate.

5.1.2 Suitable types of wood

The following types of wood are recommended for burning your fire:
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Coniferous or pine wood. This wood should only be used in a well burning fire, because otherwise you will get
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deposits in the flue duct. It is not really suitable for open fires, because of the sparks. Pine is often used as kindling
wood.
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A genuine cube (neatly stacked sawn and split wood): 1.0 m
A bulk cube (wood loaded in 1 m3 trays): 0.6 m
A stere (neatly stacked one metre sections): 1.3 m
First allow the burning wood to reach room temperature.
Always measure in the core of the wood block.
This is why you should always cleave a wood block through the middle first.
Press the moisture gauge's measuring pinsdiagonally on the grain,uprightandfirmly in the middle of the
freshly cleaved surface.
There is no point in measuring at the cross-cut of the wood or parallel to the grain.
The measurement provides an indication. In order to get a more accurate picture, the measurement should be
repeated on several places (and perhaps on various wood blocks).
The burning wood may have a maximum moist percentage of 20%. If the wood is too dry, i.e. below a moist
percentage of 10%, it will quickly gasify and overloading could occur, particularly in the case of lighter wood
types.
Hard types of wood such as oak, beech, hornbeam, ash and fruit tree wood. These types of wood generate a
short flame and will burn longer.
Light types of wood such as birch, poplar, willow and alder. These types generate a long flame but burn up
rather quickly.
Wood briquettes (compressed wood chips) are not to be burnt in a smoke control area.
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