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HORIZON – Installation and Operation Manual

2.4

Zone heating and how to make it work for you

Your new Horizon wood fireplace is a space heater, which means it is intended to heat the area it is

installed in, as well as spaces that connect to that area, although to a lower temperature. This is called zone

heating and it is an increasingly popular way to heat homes or spaces within homes.

Zone heating can be used to supplement another heating system by heating a particular space within a

home, such as a basement family room or an addition that lacks another heat source.

Houses of moderate size and relatively new construction can be heated with a properly sized and located

wood fireplace. Whole house zone heating works best when the fireplace is located in the part of the house

where the family spends most of its time. This is normally the main living area where the kitchen, dining

and living rooms are located. By locating the fireplace in this area, you will get the maximum benefit of the

heat it produces and will achieve the highest possible heating efficiency and comfort. The space where you

spend most of your time will be warmest, while bedrooms and basement (if there is one) will stay cooler. In

this way, you will burn less wood than with other forms of heating.

Although the fireplace may be able to heat the main living areas of your house to an adequate temperature,

we strongly recommend that you also have a conventional oil, gas or electric heating system to provide

backup heating.

Your success with zone heating will depend on several factors, including the correct sizing and location of

the fireplace, the size, layout and age of your home and your climate zone. Three-season vacation homes

can usually be heated with smaller fireplaces than houses that are heated all winter.

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The benefits of low emissions and high efficiency

The low smoke emissions produced by the special features inside the Horizon firebox mean that your

household will release up to 90 percent less smoke into the outside environment than if you used an older

conventional stove. But there is more to the emission control technologies than protecting the

environment.
The smoke released from wood when it is heated contains about half of the energy content of the fuel. By
burning the wood completely, your fireplace releases all the heat energy from the wood instead of wasting

it as smoke up the chimney. Also, the features inside the firebox allow you to reduce the air supply to

control heat output, while maintaining clean and efficient flaming combustion, which boosts the efficient

delivery of heat to your home.
The emission control and advanced combustion features of your fireplace can only work properly if your

fuel is in the correct moisture content range of 15 to 20 percent. see

Section 3 - Fuel

of this manual for

suggestions on preparing fuel wood and judging its moisture.

2.6

The SBI commitment to you and the environment

The SBI team is committed to protecting the environment, so we do everything we can to use only
materials in our products that will have no lasting negative impact on the environment.