Well, I shared my frustrations with the actual unit when the first one was purchased. A replacement was given by the dealer. Cranked it up for the first time Friday. It's Sunday morning and I am really frustrated with the stove's drafting.
16' or greater 8" masonry chimney, which goes up 36" as 6" pipe from the stove top to a 90 degree elbow into the chimney. The lateral runs around 2' total of pipe then clay flue, then straight up.
I'm using bone dry wood for this first weekend of fires. Had a rack of seasoned wood sitting inside on the hearth for a few months just a few feet from electric baseboard heat. Not even a hint of sizzle. It's dry wood.
Basically, I have to start all fires with the door open. I have to induce new fires on a bed a glowing coals with the door open. Otherwise wood smolders for a very long time. Even when the fire is roaring if I shut the door the flames are 'smothered' and I'm back to a slow burn. I have to keep the door cracked for a long time to get the load where it will really burn well and throughly. This is nonsense.
Wood burns very unevenly. Basically the middle of a load is burned with sides left in unburned chunks of large coal.
I've had some very hot fires going (550-600 stovetop temp), and the secondary burns are easy to see. But by the time I get loads to those temps, I'm going through wood like water.
Because the stove is shallow of depth, I've had face fulls of smoke upon opening the door, ever so carefully, just about every time I do so to reload. Smoke curls at a baffle at the door where the exit is located, but it just dumps into the room as soon as the door is opened fully to load. Any disturbance of coals to rake them to the front results in smoke in my face. I'm really sick of that, and so is my wife, to be sure.
I've owned several stoves and never dealt with smoke issues like this before. Nor have I ever had difficulties throwing wood on hot coals and not had them burst into flames as soon as the door was shut and a draft shot in air.
Right now I have two splits and a round sitting on a bed of coals and the fire is just burning underneath where the draft is sending in air. If I crack the door the whole load will burst into flames. Close the door in a few minutes, back to the burn underneath. It's a clear sky, 28 degrees out, btw.
Because the stove is shallow depth (which I needed for this heath), rounds cannot be placed on top of loads because they eventually roll off and sit against the door. I noticed the Fireviews have andirons to prevent this from happening. As yet, I still have not been able to create a fire hot enough, for long enough to burn the blackened glass at the corners of the door.
Any suggestions? I am wondering if the 8" chimney is too big for this 6" rated stove and a strong enough draft is being hampered. Do I have to install a 6" steel flue liner? More money on top of the 3 grand for the stove.
The stove has been burning at 200 degrees for a half hour now and just will not crank up unless I crack the door open. I am either not getting appreciable heat, or just sending heat up the flue trying to get a decent consistent fire going.
16' or greater 8" masonry chimney, which goes up 36" as 6" pipe from the stove top to a 90 degree elbow into the chimney. The lateral runs around 2' total of pipe then clay flue, then straight up.
I'm using bone dry wood for this first weekend of fires. Had a rack of seasoned wood sitting inside on the hearth for a few months just a few feet from electric baseboard heat. Not even a hint of sizzle. It's dry wood.
Basically, I have to start all fires with the door open. I have to induce new fires on a bed a glowing coals with the door open. Otherwise wood smolders for a very long time. Even when the fire is roaring if I shut the door the flames are 'smothered' and I'm back to a slow burn. I have to keep the door cracked for a long time to get the load where it will really burn well and throughly. This is nonsense.
Wood burns very unevenly. Basically the middle of a load is burned with sides left in unburned chunks of large coal.
I've had some very hot fires going (550-600 stovetop temp), and the secondary burns are easy to see. But by the time I get loads to those temps, I'm going through wood like water.
Because the stove is shallow of depth, I've had face fulls of smoke upon opening the door, ever so carefully, just about every time I do so to reload. Smoke curls at a baffle at the door where the exit is located, but it just dumps into the room as soon as the door is opened fully to load. Any disturbance of coals to rake them to the front results in smoke in my face. I'm really sick of that, and so is my wife, to be sure.
I've owned several stoves and never dealt with smoke issues like this before. Nor have I ever had difficulties throwing wood on hot coals and not had them burst into flames as soon as the door was shut and a draft shot in air.
Right now I have two splits and a round sitting on a bed of coals and the fire is just burning underneath where the draft is sending in air. If I crack the door the whole load will burst into flames. Close the door in a few minutes, back to the burn underneath. It's a clear sky, 28 degrees out, btw.
Because the stove is shallow depth (which I needed for this heath), rounds cannot be placed on top of loads because they eventually roll off and sit against the door. I noticed the Fireviews have andirons to prevent this from happening. As yet, I still have not been able to create a fire hot enough, for long enough to burn the blackened glass at the corners of the door.
Any suggestions? I am wondering if the 8" chimney is too big for this 6" rated stove and a strong enough draft is being hampered. Do I have to install a 6" steel flue liner? More money on top of the 3 grand for the stove.
The stove has been burning at 200 degrees for a half hour now and just will not crank up unless I crack the door open. I am either not getting appreciable heat, or just sending heat up the flue trying to get a decent consistent fire going.