Smoke from the vent of England's insert
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Nigel459
Feeling the Heat
Could be the HX is rusted out too. When you discontinued using it, did you bother to clean it out and spray the insides with fogging oil?
Nigel459
Feeling the Heat
Burn another ball of paper and watch to see if the smoke is getting sucked up the flue as it should, or is subject to negative pressure and getting pushed around and down by air coming in down the flue instead.
if cold air is coming down you have a reverse draft and need to get hot air going up the flue first. Lots of remedies, search here for reverse draft
And as mentioned above do make sure it looks sound, ie not rusted out as well before a burning a full load.
if cold air is coming down you have a reverse draft and need to get hot air going up the flue first. Lots of remedies, search here for reverse draft
And as mentioned above do make sure it looks sound, ie not rusted out as well before a burning a full load.
By hx I assume you mean heat exchanger. Which there really isn't one the firebox itself would need to be rusted out which is possible but very unlikely.
My bet would be there was no draft and the smoke was either coming out the file collar or out the intakes right below those arrows
Could also just be dust bunnies burning off after a few years of sitting. Doesn't sound like you got it hot enough to do that but when you do I would expect some smells or smoke from dust
If you haven't burned in 2 yrs, check the flue to make sure something hasn't made a nest in there and plugged it up.
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