Ok guys, ive searched around and cant really find any link on repairing stove. Jotul 600 firelight is 4 years old and burned pretty good till my better half started leaving door open to increase heat in morning. Before i knew it stove has melted internal parts. The 4 tubes across are sagging and the plate above is split in the middle and curled up. I guess its time to repair if possible before more damage. Dont worry i'll be very nice to the salesperson at the stoveshop when I go for parts, i know its our fault. What to do? where to start? Any ideas, thanks B
ut oh, jotul 600 overfired, melted parts
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Your issue raises a question that I have been pondering... By your wife leaving the door open does it heat the house faster? I have debated this myself as my significant other has asked me to leave the door open many times to heat the house faster. Does anyone ver do this? Does it work? Or is all ther hot air going right out the chimney/
Twice this season I have become preoccupied after cracking my ash pan door to help start an evening fire. I remembered each time but came running back to a stove heading past 800 and above. Mine puts off a smell similar to the smell I got when the paint initially cured. Simple forgetfullness, but dangerous. Makes me wish I had an alarm for my stovetop thermometers.
webbie
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Chances are that these parts are interior ones and relatively easily replaced. Simply go into the dealer, present the case, and see what happens. They may not be covered under warranty due to overfiring, but then again if you are nice enough (and your dealer is too), they may not even ask!
firewatcher said:
It may be very condition specific. A fireplace is pretty inefficient, and I would extrapolate that to leaving the door on a stove or insert wide open. But Wahoo's case of cracking the ash pan door, or leaving the main door cracked but not wide open (so as to still be significantly restricting flow) may result in faster heating. It would certianly result in a hotter fire faster, and it may be challenging to push a stove beyond 800F with only the basic flow controls. And the whole surface of the stove is radiating like crazy, so I'd suspect cracking the door or the ashpan does result in faster heating. That said, it's probably like stomping the gas at the stop light - really inefficient in fuel consumption, and likely hard on the parts. May not be the case any more, but my parents old VC cracked an interior panel when we heated it too fast. If you've got a boilerplate stove, a stop watch, and a thermometer, I'd say an experiment is in order.
Steve
as far as an alarm, what if you put a whistle kettle on top of the stove...i put ours on the stove for a while to heat up the water for coffee...i am real tight. i am not a scotsman but i would make one proud out gas and electric bill for a family of four is 110 for the high and 38 for the low..my jotul also dries my clothes boots and elilmantes wood scraps...
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