Lennox C260, E260 User Manual

INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL

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Wood-Burning

Fireplace Inserts

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For Future Reference

P/N 775,210M, Rev. A, 04/2007

Elite™ E260

Legacy™ C260

Wood Fireplace Inserts

Legacy™/Elite™ Models C/E260

A French manual is available upon request. Order P/N 775,210CF.

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pièce 775,210CF.

These appliances must be properly installed and operated in order to prevent the

possibility of a house re. Please read this entire installation and operation

manual before installing and using your wood stove. Failure to follow

these instructions could result in property damage, bodily injury or

even death. Contact your local building or re ofcials to obtain

a permit and information on any installation requirements

and inspection requirements in your area.

WARNINGS

• Hot! Do not touch! The glass and surfaces of this appliance will be hot during operation and will retain heat for a while after shutting off the appliance. Severe burns may result.

• Carefully supervise children in the same room as appliance.

Contents

testing information .........................................................................3

eneral safety PreCautions ................................................................3

Drafting .....................................................................................4

negative Pressure Warning ...........................................................4

Creosote .....................................................................................4

ash DisPosal ................................................................................5

fuel ..........................................................................................5

Break-in PerioD .............................................................................5

Paint Curing .................................................................................5

riCk installation ...........................................................................6

requireD ClearanCes ........................................................................7

hearth ProteCtion ..........................................................................7

Chimney requirements .......................................................................8

installation ProCeDures- masonry Chimney ................................................8

firePlaCe Pre-installation PreParation ....................................................9

insert Pre-installation PreParation ........................................................9

Chimney liner installation ................................................................ 10

installing the insert ...................................................................... 10

Post installation CheCks .................................................................. 10

oPerating hints ........................................................................... 11

starting anD maintaining a fire .......................................................... 12

Clean glass ............................................................................... 13

oPerating teChniques anD hints .......................................................... 13

getting the most out of your stove .................................................... 13

maximizing your stove’s overall effiCienCy ............................................. 14

aChieving Clean, long Burns ............................................................. 14

maintenanCe ............................................................................... 15

trouBleshooting ........................................................................... 16

Do’s anD Don’t ............................................................................ 17

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testing information

This manual describes the installation and operation of the Legacy™/Elite™ C/E260 non-catalytic wood heaters. These heaters meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s emissions limits for wood heaters sold on or after July 1,

1990. This heater has been developed, tested, and constructed in accordance with the requirements of UL 1482, ULC S628-93 and HUD standards and is listed by OMNI Test Laboratories, Beaverton, OR. It has been approved for residential and alcove installations.

general safety PreCautions

1. When this room heater is not properly installed, a house ﬁre may result. To reduce the risk of ﬁre, follow the installation instructions. Contact local building or ﬁre ofﬁcials about restrictions and installation inspection requirements in your area.

8. Do not allow children to play near the stove without close supervision. Do not touch the stove while it is burning. Use extreme caution while the unit is in use. Surface temperatures become dangerously hot and can cause serious burns.

9. Do not allow anyone to operate the stove who is not familiar with the operating instructions.

10. Attempts to achieve heat output rates that exceed stove design speciﬁcations can result in permanent damage to the stove. Never leave your stove unattended on high burn rates. This may cause overﬁring. Overﬁring the stove may cause a house ﬁre. If the

stove glows, you are overﬁring.

11. Use smoke detectors near your stove as well as in sleeping areas. Keep a water hose or hand-operated ﬁre extinguisher close for safety.

2. Wear gloves during installation to avoid injury from sharp edges on the stove and/or its parts.

3. This unit is designed and engineered to burn only dry, well-seasoned wood. Burning wet wood will greatly reduce your stoves efﬁciency, produce excessive amounts of smoke, and can cause dangerous chimney ﬁres due to creosote build-up.

4. Before opening the door, the

draft control must be

fully open to avoid possible combustion ﬂash (igni-

tion of hot volatile gases as the door is opened).

5. Do not use gasoline, gasoline-type lantern fuel, kerosene, charcoal lighter ﬂuid, or similar liquids to start or “freshen up” a ﬁre in this stove. Keep all ﬂammable liquids and combustible materials 36” from any point of the stove when it is in use.

6. While burning, fuel utilizes oxygen from the air in the room. Be sure to allow an adequate amount of fresh air into the room where the stove is burning.

12. Inspect your chimney at least once a month during the burning season to check for soot and creosote accumulations. Any accumulations over 1/4” thick should be removed by a professional chimney sweep. Do not attempt to burn out heavy creosote accumulations with a hot ﬁre. If large accumulations are occurring, review your burning procedures.

13. If a creosote ﬁre should develop, the ﬁre department should be called immediately, and then attempts should be made to control the ﬁre until assistance arrives. If a “runaway” ﬁre should develop causing over-heating of the stove, the door and draft regulators should be closed immediately. The ﬁre should die down once deprived of oxygen. After a severe chimney ﬁre, the complete chimney system should be checked before further use.

14. Do not operate with a grate or with an elevated ﬁre. Always build the ﬁre on the surface of the ﬁrebrick.

7. The outside surface of the stove will be hot while burning properly and can set items like clothing and curtains on ﬁre. Keep furnishings and other combustible materials away from the stove. Using the heat from the stove to dry wet clothing can be hazardous if clothes are placed too near the surface of the stove.

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15. Please read this entire manual before you install and use your new room heater. Failure to follow instructions may result in property damage, bodily injury, or even death.

Drafting

Your wood stove is dependent upon a properly functioning chimney for optimum performance. It is a high efﬁciency appliance that loses much less heat up the chimney than older appliances and ﬁreplaces. For this reason it is important to match the stove to the chimney. The chimney has two functions: 1) It draws combustion air into the appliance (without air, no fuel will burn) and 2) It exhausts combustion by-products. Your new Country™ Collection stove is what is known as a “natural draft” appliance. The appliance depends solely on the natural draft of the chimney system to draw combustion air into the unit. Draft is the force that moves air from the appliance up into the chimney. The amount of draft in your chimney depends on the length of the chimney, local geography, nearby obstructions, and other factors. Too much draft may cause excessive temperatures in the appliance. Slow

or inadequate draft equals poor combustion and possible smoking problems. The two main culprits of poor chimney

draft are: 1) A chimney too large for your appliance and 2) A chimney with not enough height to produce adequate draft for your particular stove model. Your Lennox Hearth Products dealer will be able to advise you on matching a proper system for your new stove. Inadequate draft will cause the appliance to leak smoke into the room through the stove and the chimney connector joints. An uncontrollable burn or a glowing red stove or chimney part indicates excessive draft. Also see Troubleshooting on page 16.

negative Pressure Warning

This appliance is not designed to be operated in a negative pressure. Very airtight homes with large kitchen exhaust fans, or homes with furnace cold air returns located in close proximity to the wood stove or ﬁreplace insert may create negative pressure in the same room as the heating appliance. This can create dangerous back drafting of the stove and chimney joints, drawing combustion by-products into the home. Be sure your home has adequate makeup air to eliminate negative pressures caused by the above-mentioned sources. Outside air connected to the appliance probably will not resolve such a problem as the stove or ﬁreplace insert is not the source of negative pressure. Lennox Hearth Products accepts no liability for damages resulting from

negative pressures described above.

Creosote

Creosote---Formation and Need for Removal---When wood is burned slowly, it produces tar and other organic vapors, which combine with expelled moisture to form creosote. The creosote vapors condense in the relatively cool chimney ﬂue of a slow-burning ﬁre. As a result, creosote residue accumulates on the ﬂue lining. When ignited, this creosote makes an extremely hot ﬁre. The chimney and chimney connector should be inspected at least once every two months during the heating season to determine if a creosote buildup has occurred. If creosote has accumulated, it should be removed to reduce the risk of a chimney ﬁre.

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ash DisPosal

Ashes should be scooped out of a cool stove with a small metal shovel. Ashes should be placed in a metal container with a tight ﬁtting lid. The closed container of ashes should be placed on a non-combustible ﬂoor or on the ground, well away from all combustible materials, pending ﬁnal disposal. If the ashes are disposed of by burial in soil or otherwise locally dispersed, they should be retained in the closed container until all the cinders have thoroughly cooled. Ashes can ignite up to 72 hours after removal from the stove.

fuel

This unit is designed and engineered to burn, dry, wellseasoned wood only. Dry, seasoned wood is that which has been cut, split, and allowed to dry under a covered area where air is free to ﬂow and circulate under and around the wood (not under a tarp or plastic). Make sure wood is not stacked directly on the ground, it may absorb moisture from the ground. It should be allowed to dry in these conditions for a minimum of six months, preferably one year or more.

IT MUST BE UNDERSTOOD THAT WOOD CANNOT BE LEFT IN ANY KIND OF WET OR DAMP AREA OR IT WILL NEVER BECOME COMPLETELY SEASONED. Your stove will

not operate at the level that it is meant to unless you use seasoned, dry wood. Do not burn driftwood or wood that has been in salt water, doing so will void your warranty. Do not burn treated wood, coal, garbage, cardboard, solvents, or colored paper. Burning treated wood, garbage, solvents, or colored paper may result in the release of toxic fumes. This type of burning will also void your warranty.

Break-in PerioD

Please be patient with the heat output of your stove for the ﬁrst few weeks. The steel will go through a curing process that eliminates moisture, which is deep in the steel and ﬁrebrick. This moisture will reduce initial heat output of your stove and may make it difﬁcult to start. After you have broken in the paint on the stove it will be necessary to build hot ﬁres to thoroughly remove the moisture from the appliance. Running the stove with the draft fully open for 1 to 1-1/2 hours after starting and adding generous amounts of fuel during the ﬁrst week or two should complete the curing process. We recommend the use of a thermometer attached to the stovetop or chimney. Temperatures on the connector pipe should run in the 250-600 degree range. (DO NOT OVERFIRE

THE STOVE DURING THIS PROCESS. IF THE STOVE OR CHIMNEY BECOMES RED, REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF AIR ENTERING THE STOVE IMMEDIATELY).

Paint Curing

Your new Legacy™/Elite™ C/E260 is painted with Forest High Temperature Paint that cures during the ﬁrst few ﬁrings. We recommend that you put your stove through a regimen of three burns. The ﬁrst two should last for 20 minutes each at 250 degrees (the stove should be allowed to cool completely between each burn). The third should be a burn of at least 450 degrees F. for 45-60 minutes. The paint will become soft, gummy, and emit non-toxic smoke during these burns. After the stove cools down for the third time, the paint will harden. DO NOT BUILD A LARGE ROARING FIRE UNTIL THIS

CURING EFFECT IS COMPLETE OR YOU MAY DAMAGE THE FINISH OF YOUR STOVE. Spray can touch-ups should be

done only with Forest brand paint, available from a Lennox Hearth Products dealer.

If your stove has a Gold or Nickel-Plated Door, be sure to clean it with Windex brand glass cleaner and a very soft cloth to remove any ﬁngerprints and residues prior to the ﬁrst ﬁre and before any ﬁre if the gold has been handled or soiled. Do not close the door tightly during the “Break-in Period.” Also, open the door frequently (every 5-10 minutes) to keep the gasket from adhering to the curing paint. Ventilate the house well during these ﬁrst ﬁrings as the paint gives off carbon dioxide and unpleasant odors. It is recommended that persons sensitive to an imbalance in the indoor air quality avoid the stove during the curing process.

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BriCk installation

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legaCy™/elite™ C/e260 BriCk installation

CAUTION: Wear gloves during brick installation in case of sharp edges inside the stove.

Note: Installation of the bafﬂe bricks and insulating blanket

is easier when you can still access the ﬂue outlet, (before connecting the ﬂue pipe). Be sure the insulating blanket

is placed ﬂat on the bricks so as not to block the ﬂue and that it does not hang out over the front of the bafﬂe. Use

a ruler or a piece of kindling to reach over the blanket to be sure it is completely ﬂat on top of the bafﬂe bricks.

1. Install bricks #1-28 in the numbered sequence shown in Figure 1.

2. Next, install bricks #29 & 33 on top of the rear stainless steel bafﬂe support (Figures 2 and 3) in the upper back part of the ﬁrebox.

3. Install bricks #34-38 by sliding the back of one brick at a time over the top of the rear stanless bafﬂe.

4. Next, install the insulating blanket on top of the bafﬂe bricks by carefully sliding it in from the front.

legaCy™/elite™ C/e260 Brick Sizes (see Figures on this page)

A = 4-1/4” x 9” F = 4-1/2” x 9” B = 4-1/4” x 5-1/2” G = 2-1/8” x 4-1/4” C = 4-1/2” x 5-1/2” H = 4-1/4” x 4-1/2” D = 2-1/8” x 6-1/4” S = 2-1/8” x 9” E - 1-3/4” x 9”

Insulating Blanket Size is 1” x 15-1/2” x 22-1/2” and ﬁts on top of the bafﬂe brick.

Top View of Bafﬂe Brick

Figure 2

WARNING: IF THE BRICKS AR NOT INSTALLED EXACTLY AS SHOWN THEY COULD FALL OUT OF PLACE DURING REFUELING OR BURNING OF THE STOVE CAUSING SERIOUS INJURY.

Firebrick Diagram

Rear Stainless Steel Bafﬂe Support

*Fits against the back of the ﬁrebox.

Note: These bricks may be slightly smaller to adjust for steel and ﬁrebrick tolerances beyond our control. Be sure to measure and mark bricks with their numbers when removing.

Figure 1

See the following for brick sizes

Front View

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Figure 3

Side Cut-A-Way View of Firebox

Ceramic Wool Insulation Blanket

29 C

SIDE VIEW

34 F

Front Stainless Steel Bafﬂe Support

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