Fitting Wood Burner Door Seal

This is in place when you purchase the woodburner.

Fitting wood burner door seal.

Here is a quick and easy to understand way to replace the wood heater glass tape seal gasket on your wood fire heater. Fire rope is also used as the seal between the wood burners door and the frame it butts up to. Follow our clear step by step demonstration by a stovax engineer which includes advice on the best products to use. How to light your wood burning stove.

How to re rope your door seal. This seal or gasket prevents the wood burner from drawing too much air into the firebox over firing your stove and or blackening the glass. This gap has to remain as part of the air wash system for these stoves. The door should fit tight to the stove with only a moderate amount of pressure.

Shut the door and close the handle. Stovax s step by step guide on how to replace the rope on your door seal on a wood burning stove. Having measured the distance from the top of the fire inside the flue outlet to a point 100 mm above the top of your new register plate frame you can cut off the surplus flue liner and cut the wood. If it binds or is too tight on the hinge side open the door adjust the seal.