I am wondering why the chimney is creating smelly non-visible smoke. This situation happens when the pressure is dropping and the wind is blowing at the angle to feed the mechanical air exchanger for our house. The surprising thing is that it is not visible at the the cap. When I check the firebox it is always on the downside of a fire and the firebox is full of red coals at this point, with a small yellow flame showing up from time to time. To solve the smell, I usually reload, pull out the air (and bring up to cruising) to get rid of the smell. I thought these new stoves were supposed to burn up all smoke and that the coals were just the clean leftovers....maybe I'm mistaken.
We have an air exchanger and if the wind blows just right, the smell of smoke may come into the house (all CO2 detectors read 0). We know that there are ways to handle this from the exchanger side ( especially since it sometime happens due to our neighbors chimney) but I'm wondering if we're burning right. My question is: I'm wondering if the smell is because we have dampered the fire down too much. Should coals have any visible flames at all on the downside of a burn or should be be aiming for some wispy flames. Any thoughts are appreciated. Everything I've learned about burning these new fangled stoves (in my adult life) has been found on this website. Thanks!
We have an air exchanger and if the wind blows just right, the smell of smoke may come into the house (all CO2 detectors read 0). We know that there are ways to handle this from the exchanger side ( especially since it sometime happens due to our neighbors chimney) but I'm wondering if we're burning right. My question is: I'm wondering if the smell is because we have dampered the fire down too much. Should coals have any visible flames at all on the downside of a burn or should be be aiming for some wispy flames. Any thoughts are appreciated. Everything I've learned about burning these new fangled stoves (in my adult life) has been found on this website. Thanks!