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Some Things Worth Knowing about the Smoke Pipe
Description of the Smoke Pipe’s Function
The smoke pipe is the duct located between your wood-burning stove and chimney. Your
WIKING wood-burning stove is equipped with an exhaust pipe 150 mm in diameter. If your
stove is to be connected to a brick chimney, it is best to mount a curved smoke pipe to the
stove’s top outlet. This solution - in which the smoke pipe extends a half meter over the stove
before connecting to the chimney - provides your home with 1 kW of extra warmth. The curved
shape ensures minimum soot build-up in the pipe and thereby lessens the risk of chimney
res. We only recommend this solution provided that your brick chimney is completely sealed
and has a sucient draft. You can read more on the chimney in the next section.
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 dierence 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.
