User manual HARVIA 36 DUO

[. . . ] The dealer or our factory representative can assist you in choosing the stove if needed. Upper connection opening Soot opening Stove door Ash box Flange (only 20 Duo/36 Duo) Fire chamber extension Read the instructions carefully before using the stove. Staying in the hot sauna for long periods of time makes the body temperature rise, which may be dangerous. Never throw water on the stones when there are people near the stove, because hot steam may burn their skin. [. . . ] If necessary, place more firewood into the fire chamber when the ember is dying down. It takes only a couple of pieces of wood to maintain the bathing temperature. excessive heating (several full loads in a row , for example) will make the stove and the chimney overheat. Overheating shortens the stove's life span and may cause risk of fire. A good rule of thumb is that temperatures of over 100 ºC are too high in a sauna. observe the correct wood quantities noted in the heating instructions. The water that is thrown on the stones should be clean household water. Make sure the water is of high enough quality, because water containing salt, lime, iron or humus may prematurely corrode the stove. If you throw water on the hot steel surfaces, they may blister due to the large temperature variation. The ash box should always be emptied before heating the stove so that the combustion air that is lead through the box would cool off the fire grate and lengthen its life span. As the removed ash may include hot embers, do not keep the ash container close to combustible material. Soot and ashes gathered in the smoke canals of the stove should be removed occasionally through the soot openings ( 1. They should be rearranged at least once a year or even more often if the sauna is in frequent use. At the same time, any pieces of stones should be removed from the stone space, and disintegrated stones should be replaced with new ones. There is low pressure caused by an extractor fan or another device in the room. Remove the small pieces of stone and stones that are less than 10 cm in diameter from the stone space. The hot stove may emphasize odours mixed in the air that are not, however, caused by the sauna or the stove. Light-coloured floor materials will become dirty from the ash, particles of stone and metal flakes that fall from the stove. It is perfectly normal for the wooden surfaces of the sauna room to blacken in time. Protective agents on the walls (protective agents have a poor heat resistance level) fine particles disintegrating from the sauna · Stones which rise with the air flow smoke that enters the sauna, for example, · when adding firewood. [. . . ] Fixing points must be placed close enough to one another to ensure a sturdy structure. Leave at least 30 mm space between the surface to be protected and the plate/s. The protective cover should extend at least 600 mm higher than the top surface of the stove. A masonry wall at least 55 mm thick is the equivalent of a single protective cover. [. . . ]