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Doran
We congratulate you on the purchase of your stove. This manual will inform you about the best way of using the stove and the art of
keeping a perfect fire. Before using the stove, carefully read the text about breaking in the stove.
These heating instructions apply to the Doran. They are merely intended as a guideline as your stove will behave differently according
to the place where it is installed, simply because the conditions are different. The flue, the weather, the quality of the wood used and
the climate conditions in the house determine your stove’s burning behaviour. In time you will develop your own directions for use,
based on these heating instructions.
What you should know about the Doran
• The Doran is a radiant stove which when used properly ensures fine heat distribution in the room.
• The combustion chamber is lined on the inside with high-grade refractory ceramic elements (Prisolith).
• You open and close the door by operating the handle on the side of the stove.
• The air-control slide regulates the air flow across the fire. You will find it behind the door of the storage compartment.
• The storage compartment includes room for your glove.
The three basic rules for proper burning are:
1. Use dry and clean wood.
The stove is suitable for burning so-called ‘stackable fuels’: wood and briquettes. We assume you will be using dry fuels only. So, this also holds for
the kindling paper and cardboard. Wet fuel costs more energy, leaves moisture on the glass and soils the flue.
2. Do not temper the burning process excessively.
Allow the stove sufficient time to warm up (stay with it at this stage) and do not temper the fire too quickly. Bear this rule in mind: you must not
temper a stove until it has warmed up properly.
3. Always make sure there is enough fresh air.
In houses today, cracks and chinks have often been sealed. Opening a small grate or cantilever window will ensure sufficient fresh air, provided no
fresh-air-supply system is used.
• The main thing when making the fire is that both the flue and the stove reach the proper temperature.
• Each time you want to open the stove when burning, the air-control slide must be open (completely pulled out) to ensure proper air supply.
The fine heat from wood
You have purchased a wood stove. In many respects, wood used as fuel is an ideal choice.
But what exactly is wood? Under the influence of sunlight, a tree builds up wood cells from
CO2 (carbon dioxide), water and minerals. So, in fact, wood is stored solar energy. In its
growth process, the tree takes CO2 from the air and gives off oxygen in return. Also in terms
of the environment, wood is an ideal fuel. When it is left to rot, the same amount of CO2 is
released as when it is burned. In environmental terms, we then say that wood is ‘CO2-
neutral’.
Only dry wood is stove wood
Not all wood qualifies as stove wood. Good burning is obtained by using wood that has been
seasoned for at least eighteen months. That is to say: preferably chopped wood that, stored
under a shelter and protected from the rain, can slowly let its moisture evaporate. Dry wood does not sizzle in the fire and does not
soot the glass.
Erik Bendien created the wood store that allows wind access from every side. This is logical - wind dries
wood. Hence the basic grid, which is free of the ground to avoid damp, the perforated side-panels and
the extra space above. The uprights and the grid are in stainless - galvanized - steel. After a while the
corten-steel side panels start to oxidise. It’s designed that way because the thin layer of rust is both
highly decorative, and protects the panels against further corrosion. The basic module, with a single
compartment, can handle 1.3 cubic meters of wood. This can be widened by the same dimensions. It
looks good as a garden partition or alongside the drive. With the user-friendly instruction you can put
together The WoodStocker in no time at all. The highly robust finished item can be manoeuvred when
empty. And disassembling The WoodStocker is just as easy, when you move house.
The Woodstocker. Getting firewood good and dry.
