How to increase the lifespan of your window
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Depending on how often you use your heating appliance, your window will become dirty, darken and lose its transparency. It is recommended to clean your insert window regularly, to limit the appearance of stubborn stains which will be difficult to remove.
To avoid clogging your window and having to clean it too often or replace your window , it is recommended to limit your smoke emission. To do this, you must carefully control your combustion, use good lighting technique and use wood suitable for your heating device.
The Top Down lighting technique
This technique of lighting from the top of the fireplace has many advantages:
- easy and quick flame capture from the fireplace
- generate less smoke and less particle emissions
- better performance
- a saving on the quantity of wood consumed
- immediate heat emission
- a low level of pollution
By significantly reducing your smoke emissions, this method helps protect your window from the appearance of black spots.
To light your fire with the “top down” technique:
- Leaving a bed of ash of 2 to 3 cm at the bottom of the hearth helps your fire start better and keeps the embers going for longer.
- Classify your wood into at least 3 categories: large logs, medium logs and small wood.
- Place the largest logs on the base of the fireplace, the medium logs come on top perpendicularly, then distribute the kindling in the same way (again perpendicularly) on the medium logs.
- Place an ecological fire starter on top and light!
- Close the door of your heater, leaving the air inlet open.
The kindling ignites and creates a draft in your duct.
Your flame will gradually descend to light all of the wood down to the floor of the fireplace.
Choose your firewood wisely
Using good quality wood will allow you to improve the performance of your heating device, but also to preserve it. Dry wood with a humidity level of less than 20% is recommended, so as not to clog your glass insert and your conduit.
Obtaining sufficiently dry wood requires between 18 months and 3 years of drying. Prefer hard types of wood (oak, birch, ash, beech, etc.) and avoid softwoods, which will tend to clog your ducts and blacken your insert window.
Finally, consider splitting your wood to increase its evaporation surface and therefore allow it to dry more quickly.