Harman Accentra insert.
So last year, I thoroughly cleaned my stove. I pulled it out, opened up everything vacuumed it out and oiled up all of the interior surfaces.
Well, I go to open it a few weeks ago, and I've had some slight surface rust in the burn box. The kind of rust from air moisture.
I pull the stove out and I see some water must have come down the chimney because I see some evidence of pooling.
This last spring/summer in Maine we had a few storms where the wind speed and amount of rain were pretty brutal (horizontal sheets of rain). So, I think it's probably likely that some water came down the pipe that way.
My question is, do any of you with inserts put a barrier - a small tarp or something - around the back of the stove so that water can't fall on the stove? or maybe a container of that damp rid stuff?
I like to baby my Accentra, and was surprised to see rust and I was worried about water getting on the blower motor, etc.
So last year, I thoroughly cleaned my stove. I pulled it out, opened up everything vacuumed it out and oiled up all of the interior surfaces.
Well, I go to open it a few weeks ago, and I've had some slight surface rust in the burn box. The kind of rust from air moisture.
I pull the stove out and I see some water must have come down the chimney because I see some evidence of pooling.
This last spring/summer in Maine we had a few storms where the wind speed and amount of rain were pretty brutal (horizontal sheets of rain). So, I think it's probably likely that some water came down the pipe that way.
My question is, do any of you with inserts put a barrier - a small tarp or something - around the back of the stove so that water can't fall on the stove? or maybe a container of that damp rid stuff?
I like to baby my Accentra, and was surprised to see rust and I was worried about water getting on the blower motor, etc.
