Our wood stove and chimney is new, installed this fall. I last swept it a month ago (I'm really scared with 32ft of chimney the amount of cresoste it could hold), and inspected a week ago to find a very small amount of build up. Last night the stove was taking a while to relight after reloading with pine, I went upstairs for about 10mins and my girlfriend smelled something hot so ran downstairs to find the woodstove going full blast with a tinging sound from the chimney. She immediately shut the damper. I know bad practice leaving it on high unattended, and also know that the tinging sound meant there was a chimney fire. I let it cool down a bit and looked inside the cleanout cap to find only traces of ash on the inside and the exterior of the double wall Duravent very warm to the touch. The small traces of creosote I had seen before were gone, obviously burnt.
So now what, what am I looking for for damage? The main vertical run looks fine to me, no bulges, deformation or discoloration in the stainless inner wall. And I will be bringing home a borescope camera from work to inspect the inside that I can't see and will remove the pipe if I see anything obvious.
Is there anything else I should do? Other than the obvious of not overfiring the stove again to cause this.
So now what, what am I looking for for damage? The main vertical run looks fine to me, no bulges, deformation or discoloration in the stainless inner wall. And I will be bringing home a borescope camera from work to inspect the inside that I can't see and will remove the pipe if I see anything obvious.
Is there anything else I should do? Other than the obvious of not overfiring the stove again to cause this.