Faber HAAKON, BRANDE 82 Assembly And Operating Instructions Manual

Assembly and operating instructions

for freestanding wood stove models:

HAAKON BRANDE 82

April. 2007

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OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

Dear Faber Customer,
We are pleased that you have decided to purchase a Faber-free standing

stove.
The elegant design and state-of-the-art combustion technique of the

Haakon and Brande models will certainly offer you many unforgettable cozy
evenings in front of the wood stove.

As a user of a wood stove, you should carefully study the attached
assembly and operating instructions for the correct way to operate the
stove.
Please read this manual carefully before installation and commissioning

.

These instructions give you important information and useful tips for romantic
moments in front of your wood stove. Keep this guide close by to allow you to
carry out the correct operations at the beginning of the heating period.

A guarantee from your dealer ( or your contractor) can only be honoured if the
attached operating instructions have been respected and you have the original
bill.
In the case of misuse, failure to comply with the operating manual or use of
force, the guarantee is no longer valid.

Paint damage is only covered by the guarantee if this is immediately notified in
writing to the dealer on delivery of the wood stove.
Any transport damage is not covered by the guarantee (this must be claimed
against the carrier in accordance with the terms of the carrier).

We wish you much pleasure with your new wood burning stove.

Faber International BV
Customer Service
Saturnus 8
PO BOX 219
NL-8440 AE Heereveen
The Netherlands

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1. ASSEMBLY

1.1 Building regulations

Your stove is designed for heating of living rooms as supplementary heating or
for heating during the transitional heating up period. The device is not suitable
as the unique form of heating for apartments or entire floors. We recommend
that before installation of your wood stove you talk with your district chimney
sweep. He can advise you on the relevant building regulations, examine the
chimney, grant the authorisation and arrange for the approval. Check whether
the room in which the wood stove is to be installed is adequately supplied with
fresh air. To ensure trouble-free operation of your stove, an adequate supply of
combustion air is required from the living room. The stove may not be modified.

1.2 Combustion air supply:

The arrangements for a combustion air supply may not be modified. In
particular, it must be ensured that the required combustion air pipes are open
during operation of the wood stove.

For this reason, if you have the intention to seal windows and doors with
special sealing you should obtain professional advice. Your contact in this case
is the chimney sweep, plumber, heating engineer or your energy supplier.
These professionals can tell you what must be done.

1.3 Chimney

The performance of your wood stove also depends on your chimney. It can be
affected by the cross-section of the chimney or by an effective chimney height
of less than 4.50 m. The effective chimney height is the distance between the
flue gas entry and the upper edge of the chimney.

Cooker hoods, which are installed in the same room or contiguous air
area as the wood stove may adversely affect the functioning of the
wood stove (up to the smoke outlet in the living room despite a closed
fire box door) and must, therefore, in no case be operated simultane­ously with the stove.
In the case of sealed windows and doors (e.g. as part of energy-saving
measures), it may be that the fresh air supply can no longer be guaran­teed thus affecting the functioning of your stove. This can negatively
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our wellbeing and your safety under certain circumstances.

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1.4 Chimney and flue pipe connection
To connect the stove to the chimney, you should ask a specialist or the
chimney sweep. They are familiar with local regulations, so that the correct
connection of the stove chimney is guaranteed.
When the wood stove is installed with an upper outlet, the flue pipe (2 mm thick
steel plate) must have an inner diameter of 150/120 mm and a minimum
vertical distance of 50 cm. The horizontal length to the chimney connection
should not exceed 100 cm. The flue pipe must be installed with a minimum
inclination of 5 cm. It is not allowed to install a 90 degree bend from the stove
into the chimney. To ensure a good draught through an existing chimney
linning of the chimney with solid fuel liner is usually requiered.

Failure to comply with these connection requirements means that the
correct operation of the wood stove is no longer possible and the
guarantee is void.

Make sure that the connection to the chimney and all the connecting pieces to
the stove and chimney fit well with one another and are sealed and tightly
connected. The pipe has to be well sealed at the chimney entry and may not be
installed in the chimney cavity itself, otherwise the smoke draught would be
affected. We recommend the use of a double wall lining here. The chimney
should have an easily accessible soot door.

We recommend that the chimney or the pipe is equipped with a damper so that
the chimney draught can be regulated on days with strong winds. It is not
allowed that the damper close the pipe totally. There must always be a free
area of min. 20% of the total opening of the chimney or the pipe.

All combustible or temperature-sensitive materials on and in the wall must be
removed and replaced with non-combustible materials within a radius of 20 cm
of the connection opening,.

1.5 Note with respect to a chimney fire:

If incorrect or damp wood is used, this may lead to a chimney fire due to
deposits in the chimney. If this occurs, close all air vents connected to the wood
stove and check that all the cleaning access traps to the chimney are closed.
After the fire goes out in the chimney, get a specialist to check for cracks or
leaks.

1.6 The design

The Haakon/Brande 82 wood stoves are designed and tested in accordance
with DIN 18891-1/ EN 13240. It must only be operated when the fire box is
closed and it is already connected to a suitably-installed chimney.

1.7 Temperature-sensitive materials

For combustible flooring such as wood, carpet, etc. a base plate must be used.
(please read also Chapter 2: SAFETY).

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IMPORTANT:
The company is not liable for any damage or defects in the stove or its
components which are caused by disregard of building regulations, incorrect
choice of the stove size, non-professional pipe and equipment installation,
faulty chimney connection and using unauthorised fuels, due to faulty, improper
operation or inadequate or overly-strong chimney draught, as well as through
external chemical or physical effects during transport, storage, installation and
use of the device (for example quenching with water, over-cooking food and
beverages, condensation, overheating through too much of the wrong fuel). In
addition the company is not liable for damage occurring as a result of building
up of soot due, for example, to poor chimney draught, wet wood or incorrect
operation and leading to losses such as additional heating costs in the event of
repair, as well as transportation costs and costs for the installation and removal
of the stove.

2. SAFETY

2.1 General safety precautions

- The existing safety measures cannot exclude all risks of accidents in
dealing with the stove.

- Remember that most components in the stove (flue pipe, safety window,
cladding and controls, etc.) become hot during heating and therefore
represent a combustion hazard. So please use gloves.

- Children should never be left unattended with a burning wood stove.
Ensure that they never play with the stove controls.

- never use spirits, alcohol, petrol or other flammable liquids.

- Only use the fuel specified in the owner's manual for heating.

- If work is being carried out on flammable or explosive materials in the

vicinity of the stove, the stove must be put out of operation.

- The fire box door must always be kept closed during operation.

- The shaker grate lever must only be handled when wearing a glove!

- The stove should only be operated with the ash tray inserted. Empty the

ash pan regularly. The ash should be disposed of when cold.

2.2 Installation instructions and safety clearances

The wood stove must be installed in a floor space with adequate load carrying
capacity. In the event of inadequate load carrying capacity, appropriate
measures must be taken in order to achieve this (for example a plate to
distribute the load).

The building regulations and fire brigade provisions, national and
European standards, and local regulations for the installation and
operation of the wood stove need to be respected.

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The following fire safety requirements must be met on installation of the
wood stove:

1. A minimum distance from flammable objects (furniture, wood flooring,
textiles), and other combustible components of 20 cm at the back and 20 cm to
both sides must be respected.

2. There must be no flammable, temperature-sensitive materials (furniture,
decorations etc.) in the heat radiation field within 80 cm of the front of the stove.

3. If the stove is installed on a flammable or temperature-sensitive floor then it
must be placed on a non-combustible base (for example ceramic or steel plate)
with a size measured outwards from the fire box opening of a minimum of 50
cm and at least 30 cm from the side.

4. The stove must only be operated with the ash tray inserted.

5. If work is being carried out on flammable or explosive materials in the vicinity
of the stove, the stove must be put out of operation.

NOTE

No liability is accepted for any direct or indirect damage caused by the stove.
This includes dirtying of the room caused by the decomposition of products
from organic dust and whose pyrolysis products appear as a dark line on
wallpaper, furniture, textiles and stove parts.

3. OPERATION

3.1 Fuels
For the Haakon/Brande 82 stove, one must only use:

Natural blocks of wood including bark in the form of wood logs according to
DIN 51731 HP2 and.

However, it is

INADMISSIBLE to burn for example:

- painted or plastic coated wood

- wood treated with wood preservatives

- household waste

- paper briquettes (pollutants: cadmium, lead, zinc)

- damp wood (residual humidity > 20%)

According to the 1

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regulation for the implementation of the Federal emission

protection law, only low-smoke producing fuels may be burned in stoves.

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The incineration of these materials in addition to producing bad smells also
produce polluting emissions which are dangerous for health and the
environment. Only use small twigs and small pieces of wood to start the fire.
For the optimum combustion of solid fuels, therefore, the following conditions
must be fulfilled:

- The required oxygen must be available. This is usually taken from the
ambient air.

- The ignition temperature must be reached. By this one means the
temperature at which the fuel continues to burn unaided due to the strong
heat.

- Use only dry wood; the best is deciduous (hard woods

) wood such as

beech and birch.

- Only use small pieces of wood for heating. This burns more easily than
large logs and rapidly reaches the required temperature for complete
combustion.

- For continuous heating do not add too much wood in one go; it is more
economical to add small amounts of wood more frequently. The quantity of
wood used should always be adapted to the heat required.

The natural process by which material expands on heating and contracts again
on cooling is also applicable for this stove. However, the design of your stove
ensures that this process does not cause damage to the stove. During the
combustion process, the expansion and contraction of the steel causes slight
crackling sounds.

3.2 Using the stove in the seasonal transition period

During the transitional period (spring/autumn), with an outside temperature
above 15° C, draught disturbances occur in the chimney. Before
commissioning of the stove, you should therefore always check the chimney at
this temperature by means of short strong heat by quickly burning paper or thin
wood chips. If no draught is produced at this temperature, you should stop the
fire.

Should there be sufficient draught and the smoke is quickly drawn off through
the chimney, then fill the fire box with a little heating fuel and then normal fuel
after a short interval. Push the primary air damper to the middle position and
regularly shake the ash.

3.3 Wood humidity, drying and storage

The calorific value of the wood depends heavily on the wood moisture. The
wetter the wood, the lower is its calorific value as a large part of the energy is
consumed for the evaporation of the water in the wood. The combustion
temperature drops which in turn prevents complete combustion of the wood.
The combustion of damp wood also leads to an increase in the build up of soot
on the combustion chamber discs. The resulting water vapour in the flue pipe
or chimney can condense and thus lead to corrosion or a build up of soot in the
chimney.

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Therefore, we would like to take this opportunity here to give some tips on
wood drying and wood storage:

- Wood at least 1.5 to 2 years to dehydrate through air drying and correct
storage (optimal residual humidity 15 to 20%).

- The wood should already be split and stored ready for use as smaller
pieces of wood as they dry better and faster.

- The firewood should be stored in a well-ventilated location as sunny as
possible and protected against the rain (the ideal is facing south).

- Leave hand-width spaces between the individual timber piles so that the air
may pass through taking moisture with it.

- Under no circumstances should the wood be stored under plastic sheets or
tents because the moisture in the wood cannot escape.

- Fresh wood should not be stored in damp cellars because due to the low
air circulation it will stay damp rather than drying out.

- However, wood which is already dry can be readily stored in a dry
basement.

3.4 Cleaning and maintenance
Steel parts, glass parts, soapstone and tiles

The steel stove is painted with heat-resistant paint. These heat-resistant stove
paints do not offer corrosion protection so that rust may occur in unfavorable
conditions, for example through:

- Wet cleaning near the feet/base plate.

- Spilt water from water boilers or pots.

- Installation in "damp areas" such as a winter garden or through temporary

storage in an open building/garage.

Clean the rusted area with fine emery paper and spray over the affected area
with the matching stove spray from the aerosol (available at your dealer).

The cleaning of the painted parts should only be carried out when cold. No
damage occurs to the stove in normal operation. If in the event of overheating a
grey sheen appears on the outer surfaces, this may be removed or sprayed
over (aerosol) when cold. To clean the steel parts, do not use acidic cleaning
fluids (such as vinegar or citrus cleaners). A damp cloth should usually be
sufficient to clean the steel parts. Dry afterwards!
Glass parts can be cleaned like household glass with glass cleaner (only when
the stove is cold).
Clean the soapstone slabs and tiles only when cold with a slightly damp cloth.
Fingerprints and fat residue on the stones can be easily cleaned with a special
soapstone cleaner (available from your dealer)