Newbie here, read all previous posts and tried all the remedies, but still have some strange goings on and I by no means know how ow these things are supposed to work.
Removed an old smoke dragon from my basement, heated well but used a ton of wood.
Found this englander on CL for $300, read a lot of reviews and looked like a good deal so I picked her up.
It's in a basement with about 4' of 6" stove pipe going into a masonry chimney with an elbow. No idea what size the chimney is but it's about 25' to top.
Lit her off and smoke pours out the door and at every joint of the stove pipe, quits if I close the door but then the fire goes out.
Air damper seems to have no effect on the Fire at all. Wondering if I knocked something loose in there when I was moving it?
When I did manage to get a fire started with some old 2x4 scraps ( thought my wood might be too green) smoke pours from where the elbow goes into the chimney, until I close the door , which puts the fire out. So I suffered through the smoke with the door open got a decent fire going, never a real roaring fire, good bed of coals , but the fire dies down and just looks kind of lazy with the air wide open. I can close it completely and there's no change.finally managed to get it going for awhile by raking grooves in the coals., but every time I so much as crack the door smoke pours from everywhere. Called englander and they said 25' is to much to draft even though there manual says it's acceptable . I put a blower into the 3 in intake and still no effect on the fire just made smoke pour out at all the flue seams. Either one of 2 things primary air is blocked somehow or no draft. In the case of the latter would a liner help? Any help would be appreciated
Removed an old smoke dragon from my basement, heated well but used a ton of wood.
Found this englander on CL for $300, read a lot of reviews and looked like a good deal so I picked her up.
It's in a basement with about 4' of 6" stove pipe going into a masonry chimney with an elbow. No idea what size the chimney is but it's about 25' to top.
Lit her off and smoke pours out the door and at every joint of the stove pipe, quits if I close the door but then the fire goes out.
Air damper seems to have no effect on the Fire at all. Wondering if I knocked something loose in there when I was moving it?
When I did manage to get a fire started with some old 2x4 scraps ( thought my wood might be too green) smoke pours from where the elbow goes into the chimney, until I close the door , which puts the fire out. So I suffered through the smoke with the door open got a decent fire going, never a real roaring fire, good bed of coals , but the fire dies down and just looks kind of lazy with the air wide open. I can close it completely and there's no change.finally managed to get it going for awhile by raking grooves in the coals., but every time I so much as crack the door smoke pours from everywhere. Called englander and they said 25' is to much to draft even though there manual says it's acceptable . I put a blower into the 3 in intake and still no effect on the fire just made smoke pour out at all the flue seams. Either one of 2 things primary air is blocked somehow or no draft. In the case of the latter would a liner help? Any help would be appreciated
