• RE: HearthMate Operating Manual
  
  
  I bought a house with one in it and all i do is make the house smokey
  
  
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• Re: HearthMate Wood Stove Manual
  
  
  To Tnuhfur: We have owned a Hearthmate Wood and Coal burning stove for about 28 years. Ours is approx. 22" wide, 16" deep and 30" high. The bottom door (where you clean out the ashes) is 14"x 6" and the top door is 14"x 12" with a 7"x 6" window. It weighs at least a ton. When we start a fire, we usually teepee small logs and put crushed newspaper inside the teepee then light with a small piece of firestarter. Make sure the damper (the rod above the top door) is fully open. Leave the bottom door open about 4" until the fire catches and is burning well. Once you've got some good red coals going, spread them out. Place some logs on top of the coal bed and let it catch well. Once you have a good fire going, close up the bottom door and close the damper half way. You can adjust the air drafts on the bottom door. The more open they are open, the faster and hotter the wood burns. It's a good idea to put a magnetized thermometer (made especially for wood stoves) on the side of the stove. Once you have a good fire going, just add wood as needed. We wait until the thermostat reads about 300 degrees. WHEN YOU WANT TO ADD MORE WOOD, ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU OPEN THE DAMPER ALL THE WAY, THEN THE BOTTOM DOOR, BEFORE OPENING THE TOP DOOR, OTHERWISE YOU COULD HAVE A FLASHBACK. I know that HearthMate made a few models, but basically, they should all work the same way. I went nuts looking for our manual, but haven't had any success. I will let you know if I find it.
  Also, to danthemtgman: The smoke is probably due to the damper not being open, wood with a higher than advised moisture content or opening the door where you feed the wood, when the fire is not hot enough. As a rule, if the fire is burning well and you have a good draft going, you don't get smoke.
  
  
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• HearthMate Woodstove Operating Tips
  
  
  To cloiacono, It sounds like your HearthMate woodstove is similar, although I doubt that mine would burn coal-Mine does have firebrick in the burn box area, but the sides are welded metal not cast. I do have a bottom clean-out box/with a moveable cleanout slide gate to allow the ash into the ash box. It not a cleanout door as you described. Also between the cleanout box and the main top door there are six one inch holes which can be controlled with a slide to control air/draft for firing.Thanks for the operating tips-I'll certainly use them. In fact last week we were using the woodburner and could have used these tips to make our life easier and less smokey. we had a magnetic thermometer,but because it is an insert, there was no flue pipe to attach it to. So I just put it on the outside metal insert enclosure near where the flue pipe would be inside and notice that it varied between 150F to 350F. When the temp got down to 200F, we would add more fuel and/or air. Thanks for the useful info. Hopefully you will find the manual and we can chat again...TNuhfer
  
  
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• HearthMate Wood Stove
  
  
  To Tnuhfer: Our Wood Stove is free-standing. It sits on the hearth of our fireplace and vents up the chiminey. It has a back shield that covers the opening of the fireplace. The more you burn the warmer the house gets. We have an eight room Garrison colonial and my husband put a small 6" fan, made especially to fit flush between the ceiling and a wall and added an elbow shaped piece of ductwork that literally moves the warmth around the corner and up to the second floor. We just got our first oil fillup. I was amazed. $27.30! The trick is to keep the fire burning all the time you're in your camp. I would guess that your thermometer is probably reading lower than it really is because of where you have to place it. But that really doesn't matter as long as you know to feed the fire when it gets down to (in your case) 200 degrees. A lot of it is trial and error. Most likely, I won't have time to look for the manual until after the holidays. In addition to wood, we are also burning biobricks. They're like wood pellets, but compressed into the shape of bricks. Very clean, not much ash. They weigh approximately 2 lbs each. Easy to store indoors and no bugs. We bought 2 tons back in August. We usually put 10-12 bricks at a time in, and they last about 6 hours. If we were just burning biobricks, I think we would need about 3 1/2 tons to get through the winter. I understand they also make logs out of the same material. With all these compressed sawdust products, you have to have someplace dry to store them. Once they get wet, the only thing they're good for is camp fires. Happy Holidays!
  
  
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• HearthMate Wood Stave
  
  
  To cloiacono,
  It sounds like you use your wood stove full time and that you are very pleased with your hearthmate. We have plenty of wood at camp from the area so we probably wouldn't use the compressed bricks, although it sounds interesting- maybe for my home wodburners. Glad to hear you're saving a lot of money on oil bills. If you have a name and part number for that flush mounted fan, it might be something I could use at camp and at home. Thanks again for all your help and may this be a warm and prosperous New Years for you and yours.
  
  
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• manual
  
  
  i have one if you need it
  
  
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• HAEARTH MATE #2400 WOOD STOVE
  
  
  Yes I would love to have a manual to this stove we love it but like one reader mentioned it does smoke on me ,we thought we might need to put the 8" pipe for better drafting but it is a nice stove please call Merri-jane wing at 207-655-3140 or mjtimwing@maine.rr.com
  
  
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• HAEARTH MATE #2400 WOOD STOVE
  
  
  Yes I would love to have a manual to this stove we love it but like one reader mentioned it does smoke on me ,we thought we might need to put the 8" pipe for better drafting but it is a nice stove please call Merri-jane wing at 207-655-3140 or mjtimwing@maine.rr.com
  
  
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• Hearth Mate manual
  
  
  I'd love to get a copy of the Manual too. My email is tnuhfer@ptd.com. phone # 610-796-1488
  
  
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