Review of Harmony 23
Fantastic Burner but Practise makes Perfect!
We've had our Harmony 23 for over 8 years now and have eventually learnt through user mistakes and discussions with our supplier how to use it to it's full potential and I now love it!!
For the first few years we burnt anything on it from wet sticks, nappies, plastic until one day I returned home to find the house full of smoke as the chimney was completely blocked. After discussing with the supplier, we cleaned the chimney out thoroughly and started afresh with year old seasoned dry sticks and it worked a treat since but then my only bug bear was the constant dirty glass from soot & a tar like substance. I put this down to keeping it in from October until April, only letting it go out for cleaning once every 2 months. BUT after a visit to the supplier early this year and me admiring the very clean glass of the Harmony burner running in their showroom, we worked out that mine wasn't set up properly and I found out that there was another control knob underneath the burner which I believe adjusts the air flow. It's placed to the right of the back left hand leg and turns clockwise or anti-clockwise, I think clockwise increases the air flow and anticlockwise decreases it. So I went home and after adjusting this knob I had clean glass that stayed clean and I could see my fire burning (after 8 years I was so pleased!!). I would warn you though the more clockwise you turn the know to the faster the fire burns and may not stay in overnight for you so it did take us a few day/nights of adjusting it to get it all working perfectly to keep in overnight and keep the glass in. We always turn it down to below 1 to keep in and yes the glass does fog up but as soon as I open it up every morning it clears again. I'm also finding it easier to light now and have got very lazy and don't bother with morning sticks any more, I just open the ash pan door, scrunch up several pieces of newspaper and put of 4/5 small narrowish logs. I keep the ashpan door open until it's caught and then add bigger sticks on top and shit the door. From adjusting the knob underneath, I find that the flames don't roar up the chimney on lighting anymore. Sorry for the long review but I do love my log burner now and here's my summary on how to use it: * Light with level between A&B, control on 3, with some scrunched newspaper * morning (very small sticks) with medium size sticks on top or added when small sticks have caught * Only burn dry seasoned (trees that have been cut down for more than 12 months) logs on it * After lighting it should burn comfortably with Lever on A & Control turned to 2 or less * Adjust knob underneath to run burner more efficiently & cleanly * To keep in overnight, stock up fire with logs until full and turn control to less than 1 before bed. * In the morning restock sticks & move control to 3 until it gets going I WOULD definately recomend this burner to anyone but do take time to familiarise yourselves with the burner & it's controls to get it working perfectlyStove expert replied: Early mistakes burning anything on a stove led to a blocked chimney, only burn what is recommended on an appliance. Get the chimney / flue system swept regularly to insure that it is clear and will remove the gases effectively. Top marks given for this appliance from this user!
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