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Cleaning and Maintaining your Wood-Burning Stove
Warning: Cleaning and maintenance of your wood-burning stove may only be performed
when it is cool.
External Cleaning
The outside of your stove can be dusted as needed with a soft cloth or dust brush. Do not use
water, spirit or any other kind of cleaner, as this will damage the lacquer.
Cleaning the Glass Door
Your WIKING wood-burning stove is equipped with a pane-ush system, which reduces the
build-up of soot on the glass. If soot somehow accumulates on the pane, it can be cleaned by
wiping the glass with a moist paper towel dipped in ash. Afterwards, dry with a clean paper
towel. When cleaning, we recommend that you use vertical strokes. You should also ensure
that air gaps in the door frame are free of ash and soot particles. Also ensure that the seals on
the stove are soft and fully intact; if they are not, ’false’ air can enter the stove, which makes it
more difcult to control combustion and can in turn cause overheating or soot accumulation.
Faulty or worn seals should therefore be replaced and can be purchased at your local wood-
burning stove dealer.
Emptying the Ash Pan
Important: Be aware that embers in the ash can remain hot for up to 24 hours after the re in
the stove has gone out!
The ash pan is most easily emptied by pulling a waste bag over the pan, turning the pan upside
down, and then carefully pulling it up and out of the bag again.
Cleaning the Combustion Chamber
In order to extend the service lifetime of the wood-burning stove, it should be thoroughly ser-
viced once a year. First remove ash and soot from the combustion chamber. In Figure C you
can see which plates are found inside the combustion chamber. Carefully remove the vermicu-
lite plates, one after the other, in the following sequence:
1. Smoke deector (top plate)
2. Rear plate
3. Left corner plate
4. Right corner plate
5. Left side plate
6. Right side plate
After cleaning, the vermiculite plates are carefully reinserted in reverse order, starting with the
right side plate.
Over time, the combustion chamber’s effective yet porous insulation can become worn and
damaged. A crack in the back plate can cause secondary air to become incorrectly distributed
in the combustion chamber, and it should therefore be replaced. Cracks in the other plates will
not affect the efciency of the wood-burning stove. They should, however, be replaced when
worn down to half of their original thickness.
