Heartland 2603 User Manual
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Maintenance
Oven Flue Passage
As heat, smoke and gases travel around the oven, fly ash and often creosote are left behind. The frequency of cleaning of the
oven flue will depend on your use, burning habits and the wood you burn. If a ‘fly ash’ which is very fine and light in colour,
is what is left behind in the oven flue chamber, it is a good indication you are burning your stove well.
If a sticky black ash is what you observe, you are burning wood which is too wet or the stove is not burning hot enough as
If a sticky black ash is what you observe, you are burning wood which is too wet or the stove is not burning hot enough as
a result of a poor chimney. Your dealer can help you correct this.
Follow this procedure when cleaning around the flue passage:
Follow this procedure when cleaning around the flue passage:
1) Clean the oven flue chamber by removing the top lids and scraping the ash to the sides.
2) Then scrape the sides so the ash falls to the bottom.
3) All the ash may then be scraped into a metal container through the ash cleanout door with the ash scraper.
4) Follow the procedure for ash disposal when cleaning the oven flue chamber, and chimney connector system.
Creosote buildup in the oven flue chamber can lead to rusting, a bad odour, and chimney fires. Check for creosote regularly
and clean it out upon discovery.
Caution: The water reservoir is a naturally cooler area of your stove, so creosote and fly
ash
will tend to build up on and around that side of the stove. Because of the potential for blockage and or ignition of the
creosote, frequent inspection of this area is very critical and clean out must be performed more often.
Creosote is a tell tale condition of burning wet wood, a practice which should immediately be discontinued.
Creosote is a tell tale condition of burning wet wood, a practice which should immediately be discontinued.
Remove keyplate and lids to scrape
upper flue passage
Scrape down the sides of flue passage
to the bottom flue passage
Caution: Models with water reservoir
frequent inspection of this area is
very critical and clean out must be
performed more often.
Ash clean out door-lift slightly to remove
Oven damper track should be cleaned periodically
Oven damper
Remove lids to gain access
to flue passage
Scrape ash in the bottom flu passage and remove through the clean
out door opening