Hi People,
I have been having an issue with my woodstove/wood furnace all year and have been having a hard time figuring out what to do. I have asked numerous people and have been given many suggestions, but none have worked. Hopefully someone here might be able to help. Here is my setup. Bought a house last year that has a US Stove hotblast forced air wood stove. Stove worked great last year. Almost kept the house too warm. This year I began using it again, but every few days I get smoke puffing back into the house a couple hours after filling it. It is a pain during the day, but even worse when we are sleeping. To correct the problem, I spin the bottom dial out, which allows the fire to almost run away. Stove pipe temp goes from 250 degrees to 400 degrees in a matter of minutes. When I try to slow it down by spinning the dial back in, I have to do it extremely slow or it starts puffing in the house again. I have a 6" outlet on the stove, which is connected to a 6" stove pipe which runs up and then out the wall to an 8 inch double wall stainless chimney pipe. I have verified that the chimney height is high enough and have even changed my cap to a special wind resistant type cap. I am burning wood that was cut and split in October of 2008. I clean my pipe every weekend and have not had any build up as of yet. It also seems to do it if there is a good bed of coals in it and I load it with wood. I cannot figure out what has changed between this year and last. I don't seem to be doing any thing different. My wife and I are about to our wits end with the stove and are expecting our first kid any day now. We are getting tired of waking up to a smokey, smelly house at 2 o'clock a.m. If I can't fix it soon, I am shutting it down, which is a shame because it works so well. Firebox is usually about 340 to 360 degrees and stove pipe is around 300. Does it whether the wind is blowing or it is calm. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need more info or have question please let me know. Thanks
I have been having an issue with my woodstove/wood furnace all year and have been having a hard time figuring out what to do. I have asked numerous people and have been given many suggestions, but none have worked. Hopefully someone here might be able to help. Here is my setup. Bought a house last year that has a US Stove hotblast forced air wood stove. Stove worked great last year. Almost kept the house too warm. This year I began using it again, but every few days I get smoke puffing back into the house a couple hours after filling it. It is a pain during the day, but even worse when we are sleeping. To correct the problem, I spin the bottom dial out, which allows the fire to almost run away. Stove pipe temp goes from 250 degrees to 400 degrees in a matter of minutes. When I try to slow it down by spinning the dial back in, I have to do it extremely slow or it starts puffing in the house again. I have a 6" outlet on the stove, which is connected to a 6" stove pipe which runs up and then out the wall to an 8 inch double wall stainless chimney pipe. I have verified that the chimney height is high enough and have even changed my cap to a special wind resistant type cap. I am burning wood that was cut and split in October of 2008. I clean my pipe every weekend and have not had any build up as of yet. It also seems to do it if there is a good bed of coals in it and I load it with wood. I cannot figure out what has changed between this year and last. I don't seem to be doing any thing different. My wife and I are about to our wits end with the stove and are expecting our first kid any day now. We are getting tired of waking up to a smokey, smelly house at 2 o'clock a.m. If I can't fix it soon, I am shutting it down, which is a shame because it works so well. Firebox is usually about 340 to 360 degrees and stove pipe is around 300. Does it whether the wind is blowing or it is calm. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need more info or have question please let me know. Thanks