I know this is an impossible question to answer accurately but I figured I'd see what other people have experienced in case it helps me figure out my problem.
Every time I burn, I get a noticeable hot paint / hot plastic smell. It's unpleasant and is worse higher in the room (down low where the air is cool it's not really noticeable).
Full story below but the condensed version is this: the smell is coming from the gap between the top stones and the front cast iron edge. I've smelled all over the stove while it was hot (a comical undertaking) and determined it is pretty localized - it's not the stove pipe, the stones, the doors, the glass, etc. Basically just a line right across the front top part of the stove. There are no obvious signs of damage or contamination.
Does anyone know what hot / burning thinset smells like? I'm wondering if the front stone came loose at some point and the previous owners attempted a repair using a polymer modified thinset instead of a furnace cement.
Full story: I bought a used Heritage stove on FB Marketplace a couple of months ago and installed it myself. Had it inspected and all is good. The chimney liner is old but clean and I only needed a small stovepipe elbow to adapt the stove to the liner. (I initially thought the smell was from the paint curing, but that doesn't seem to be the case).
The stove is the old model before they improved the latches. The side door was fine and I won't use it, so no changes there. I did replace the front door frame, all the gaskets, and the baffle board was missing, so I installed a new one. (Also thought the smell might be the baffle board curing or the gasket cement curing but have since ruled those out). I also found that the two soap stones inside the firebox were loose, so I cemented those back down with high heat furnace cement. I followed the instructions for curing the baffle board and we had our first real burn yesterday, running for about 12 hours. The smell was just as bad as the first several short / small fires. It doesn't set in until the soapstone is really good and hot and it's definitely localized to the top front portion of the stove.
I bought this from a guy who apparently bought it to install in a vacation house / retirement house he was building. It sat on storage for several years and he ended up sustaining an injury that made splitting, stacking, and carrying firewood a non-starter so, once he completed the house, he installed a pellet stove and sold this one.
Any ideas? Anyone run into this kind of thing before? It doesn't seem to be getting better with burning or I'd just let it cook off...
Every time I burn, I get a noticeable hot paint / hot plastic smell. It's unpleasant and is worse higher in the room (down low where the air is cool it's not really noticeable).
Full story below but the condensed version is this: the smell is coming from the gap between the top stones and the front cast iron edge. I've smelled all over the stove while it was hot (a comical undertaking) and determined it is pretty localized - it's not the stove pipe, the stones, the doors, the glass, etc. Basically just a line right across the front top part of the stove. There are no obvious signs of damage or contamination.
Does anyone know what hot / burning thinset smells like? I'm wondering if the front stone came loose at some point and the previous owners attempted a repair using a polymer modified thinset instead of a furnace cement.
Full story: I bought a used Heritage stove on FB Marketplace a couple of months ago and installed it myself. Had it inspected and all is good. The chimney liner is old but clean and I only needed a small stovepipe elbow to adapt the stove to the liner. (I initially thought the smell was from the paint curing, but that doesn't seem to be the case).
The stove is the old model before they improved the latches. The side door was fine and I won't use it, so no changes there. I did replace the front door frame, all the gaskets, and the baffle board was missing, so I installed a new one. (Also thought the smell might be the baffle board curing or the gasket cement curing but have since ruled those out). I also found that the two soap stones inside the firebox were loose, so I cemented those back down with high heat furnace cement. I followed the instructions for curing the baffle board and we had our first real burn yesterday, running for about 12 hours. The smell was just as bad as the first several short / small fires. It doesn't set in until the soapstone is really good and hot and it's definitely localized to the top front portion of the stove.
I bought this from a guy who apparently bought it to install in a vacation house / retirement house he was building. It sat on storage for several years and he ended up sustaining an injury that made splitting, stacking, and carrying firewood a non-starter so, once he completed the house, he installed a pellet stove and sold this one.
Any ideas? Anyone run into this kind of thing before? It doesn't seem to be getting better with burning or I'd just let it cook off...
