I've got a brand new morso badger stove with excel double-walled pipe and I'm getting a whiff of smoke coming out somewhere when it's well burned down and/or smoldering. Not enough to kill me, so far, but a bit annoying.
As far as I can tell, the only possiblities for a leaky spot are the stove itself somewhere (intake I suppose) or the connection of my stovepipe and the collar on the stove.
The stovepipe is corrugated where it sits over the collar (the piece they gave me to connect was bizarre and useless, so this is all I could do) and it sits 3/4" or a bit more over the collar. It's pretty snug, but I wonder if the corrugation might be letting the smoke out a bit when the draft is weak. I can't recall if there was the 2nd wall of the pipe came down as far as the collar or not. Can't open it now to see, it's blazing.
I do have double walled all the way, and it's 15 feet of pipe, so draft is excellent in general.
I guess I could try filling it in with hi temp cement, but I want to get some opinions before making that mess.
Or have you ever known a stove to leak backwards from its intake under a weak draft/smoldering condition?
Thanks for any insight.
Sorry this pic is so huge!
As far as I can tell, the only possiblities for a leaky spot are the stove itself somewhere (intake I suppose) or the connection of my stovepipe and the collar on the stove.
The stovepipe is corrugated where it sits over the collar (the piece they gave me to connect was bizarre and useless, so this is all I could do) and it sits 3/4" or a bit more over the collar. It's pretty snug, but I wonder if the corrugation might be letting the smoke out a bit when the draft is weak. I can't recall if there was the 2nd wall of the pipe came down as far as the collar or not. Can't open it now to see, it's blazing.
I do have double walled all the way, and it's 15 feet of pipe, so draft is excellent in general.
I guess I could try filling it in with hi temp cement, but I want to get some opinions before making that mess.
Or have you ever known a stove to leak backwards from its intake under a weak draft/smoldering condition?
Thanks for any insight.
Sorry this pic is so huge!