This is my second year of burning the wood stove. Absolutely love it! I don't burn as my primary source of heat... evenings and weekends when I'm around the house. But I've noticed a funny thing this year that I don't remember happening last year. If I leave the door open for more than 5 or 10 seconds after lighting the fire, a little bit of smoke will start to come out from the bottom of the stove where the fan is. I have a cw2500 insert that has a fan that blows air around the firebox from the bottom. I can see that the draft is ok and that the smoke is going up the liner (no smoke comes out of the door opening) but I am assuming that that little bit of smoke is getting pushed out through the secondary air tubes and outside the firebox. Now I know that the door shouldn't be open anyways but sometimes when I first start it up I like to watch it with the door open for a bit.
Is this behavior normal? Or should I be worried about a crack or broken weld or something?
Is this behavior normal? Or should I be worried about a crack or broken weld or something?