I'm the happy owner of a Morse 5660 insert (with blower) but I've got a problem.
I have a split level house on a hill. On the top is the main living space. We have the 5660 in the fireplace there, with a liner, "professionally installed," etc.
We also have a fireplace downstairs. While it feeds into the same masonry chimney, its a separate stack (there are three, one for the furnace, one for the downstairs, and one for the upstairs). When we removed the 1980s slammer Leyden insert from upstairs, I put in downstairs, figuring that we might use it a few times a year max (we used it once in the last month) and that if we lost power (it happens here), it'd be nice to have the source of heat. We never had any problems with the Leyden upstairs. But now, for whatever reason, to one side of it (by the stairs) smoke is accumulating. Before there were glass doors there. I didn't particularly appreciate them.
Any ideas? I'm thinking maybe that there is negative pressure being caused and that burning the Morso upstairs is making smoke accumulate downstairs as the smoke tries to find its way through the old insert, which is probably leakier than the old doors.
Haven't set the CO detecters off yet, but this isn't good is it?
Sadly, my installer isn't too sharp so I don't expect he'd be the fellow to turn to for this.
Or is there a problem with the liner he installed? It all looked good to me.
Our house is 20 years old and well built. During the sort of weather we've been having lately (WARM!) I could heat it with a match. Or rather not even. Once the sun's up, the large windows heat the house amply. That said, its 44 out. I've got a cold and I'd like some heat in here.
I have a split level house on a hill. On the top is the main living space. We have the 5660 in the fireplace there, with a liner, "professionally installed," etc.
We also have a fireplace downstairs. While it feeds into the same masonry chimney, its a separate stack (there are three, one for the furnace, one for the downstairs, and one for the upstairs). When we removed the 1980s slammer Leyden insert from upstairs, I put in downstairs, figuring that we might use it a few times a year max (we used it once in the last month) and that if we lost power (it happens here), it'd be nice to have the source of heat. We never had any problems with the Leyden upstairs. But now, for whatever reason, to one side of it (by the stairs) smoke is accumulating. Before there were glass doors there. I didn't particularly appreciate them.
Any ideas? I'm thinking maybe that there is negative pressure being caused and that burning the Morso upstairs is making smoke accumulate downstairs as the smoke tries to find its way through the old insert, which is probably leakier than the old doors.
Haven't set the CO detecters off yet, but this isn't good is it?
Sadly, my installer isn't too sharp so I don't expect he'd be the fellow to turn to for this.
Or is there a problem with the liner he installed? It all looked good to me.
Our house is 20 years old and well built. During the sort of weather we've been having lately (WARM!) I could heat it with a match. Or rather not even. Once the sun's up, the large windows heat the house amply. That said, its 44 out. I've got a cold and I'd like some heat in here.