Last night I think I might have overfired my stove a bit, it's a Lopi Republic 1750i.
We have only had a couple of fires this season and I don't have a good feeling for how the wood is burning. We also just got the liner swept and everything cleaned out on Saturday.
So we had an OK fire going, but not getting as hot as I would like considering that the air was wide open. I suspected that it was because the wood might not be that dry, pushed the partially burned stuff to the back and put in two big hunks right up front - this was after midnight and my plan was to listen for the ticking sound when it gets hot, while I watched TV in the next room... but I fell asleep. Woke around 4 -5 hours later to the smell of hot metal throughout the house, but a fairly cool stove, running around 250. There was still some wood burning in there, but the big hunks in front were much reduced. The creosote on the glass had not really burned off much, but I need to replace the gasket so that might be why. Is there any way I can tell for sure if I overfired? Certainly nothing looked warped or bent or welds broken or anything, and I'll take a better look when it's all cooled off, but is there a good chance that everything might be just fine? (or that the smell wasn't what I thought it was?)
We have only had a couple of fires this season and I don't have a good feeling for how the wood is burning. We also just got the liner swept and everything cleaned out on Saturday.
So we had an OK fire going, but not getting as hot as I would like considering that the air was wide open. I suspected that it was because the wood might not be that dry, pushed the partially burned stuff to the back and put in two big hunks right up front - this was after midnight and my plan was to listen for the ticking sound when it gets hot, while I watched TV in the next room... but I fell asleep. Woke around 4 -5 hours later to the smell of hot metal throughout the house, but a fairly cool stove, running around 250. There was still some wood burning in there, but the big hunks in front were much reduced. The creosote on the glass had not really burned off much, but I need to replace the gasket so that might be why. Is there any way I can tell for sure if I overfired? Certainly nothing looked warped or bent or welds broken or anything, and I'll take a better look when it's all cooled off, but is there a good chance that everything might be just fine? (or that the smell wasn't what I thought it was?)
