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Some Things Worth Knowing about the Chimney
Description of the Chimney’s Function
The chimney serves as the wood-burning stove’s ‘motor’, and it is crucial to the stove’s proper
functioning. The chimney draft creates a vacuum inside the wood-burning stove. This vacuum
serves two purposes:
1. To remove smoke from inside the wood-burning stove.
2. To suck air in through the air damper during lighting and combustion, and to keep the
glass pane free of soot.
How to Create the Best Possible Chimney Draft
Even a quality chimney can function poorly if used improperly. It is crucial that both your wood-
burning stove and the chimney are installed in accordance with the directions; otherwise it will
not be possible to attain satisfactory combustion.
Chimney draft is created by the difference in temperature between the inside and outside of
the chimney. The higher the temperature inside the chimney, the better the chimney draft. This
means that it is very important for the chimney to be heated thoroughly before you reduce the
air supply to limit combustion in the stove, cf. the section on lighting and fuelling your WIKING
stove. Please be aware that it takes longer to heat a brick chimney than a steel chimney.
On days when weather and wind conditions create a poor draft in the chimney, it is especially
important to heat up the chimney as quickly as possible. When lighting, use extra-nely split
rewood and an extra relighter, as ames quickly heat up the stove.
After a Longer Period of Disuse
If you have not used your wood-burning stove in a while (e.g. for an entire summer season),
it is important to check for blockage in the chimney duct. Contact your local chimney sweep.
Connecting Several Heating Sources to the Same Chimney
It is possible to connect several units to some chimneys. All applicable regulations must rst
be consulted, in your building code and with your local chimney sweep.
Chimney Fire
In the event of a chimney re:
• Close all dampers in the chimney and push the regulating handle on the stove to the ex-
treme right. Contact the re brigade.
Before using the wood-burning stove again, your local chimney sweep must rst inspect the
chimney.
