I keep posting here with questions and getting great feedback from all of you with much more experience. Well tonight we did a small fire just to take the edge off the night, doors/windows were open for much of the day.
We barely hit 500 tonight, hit 600/650 for the first time last night and didn't experience any problems yesterday. We did the break in slow burns on the Oslo for the required 3 and even did a couple 400ish fires to feel comfortable with the stove, the chimney, etc.
Well tonight, I happened to look over to the hearth and noticed 2 creosote puddles (presume to be creosote, it is liquid and it is brown and it smells like structure fire smells like - dirty smoke) under the stove. I am trying to get pictures uploaded but in the meantime - I was able to see where the creosote is coming from. It isn't the chimney connector and it isn't the air intake hole at the bottom. All along the outside of the stove where the stove appears to be seamed there is some white cement like material. In a couple spots (right above the leaks) that white cement area is brown, suggesting to me that something is leaking past there somehow...
Don't see anything about this on the forum so I don't know what is going on here. The stove hasn't gone above the 670 or so (as measured on the stove top front left corner, as Jotul suggests) that we reached last night. No deformities/cracks anywhere except that little leakage at those seams.
Will get pictures once the iPhone is done sending them and I am done resizing...
We barely hit 500 tonight, hit 600/650 for the first time last night and didn't experience any problems yesterday. We did the break in slow burns on the Oslo for the required 3 and even did a couple 400ish fires to feel comfortable with the stove, the chimney, etc.
Well tonight, I happened to look over to the hearth and noticed 2 creosote puddles (presume to be creosote, it is liquid and it is brown and it smells like structure fire smells like - dirty smoke) under the stove. I am trying to get pictures uploaded but in the meantime - I was able to see where the creosote is coming from. It isn't the chimney connector and it isn't the air intake hole at the bottom. All along the outside of the stove where the stove appears to be seamed there is some white cement like material. In a couple spots (right above the leaks) that white cement area is brown, suggesting to me that something is leaking past there somehow...
Don't see anything about this on the forum so I don't know what is going on here. The stove hasn't gone above the 670 or so (as measured on the stove top front left corner, as Jotul suggests) that we reached last night. No deformities/cracks anywhere except that little leakage at those seams.
Will get pictures once the iPhone is done sending them and I am done resizing...