All is well, thankful for that. But I felt I needed to tell everyone that no matter what you do to help something or make it better it can still cause a unforeseen hazard.
For YEARS I have been blocking off the area where my pellet stove heat output comes out, when the stove is off, I used a flame resistant piece of foam. To make a long story short as possible, I shut stove down yesterday late morning, got dressed to go do yard work once stove had completely shut down I installed foam (seems to cut down on the draft from OAK when it's windy outside) and headed out. An hour later I came in, to a house filled with smoke every smoke detector going off, couldn't see 2' in front of me.it smelled electrical, so I took a deep breath and headed in to find my pellet stove burning, igniter hadn't been working for at least 2 years, so I thought. I had turned knob just slightly past off, to room temp, once temp dropped below 70* it kicked on... So glad dogs were with me. Totally my fault, felt stupid looking at a bunch of firemen as I finally figured what it was...
I'm sure we all "McGuyver" things, just hope mine & telling it here possibly saves someone the 15-25 minutes of horror I experienced yesterday. Not to mention having to open every window on a 38* day...
For YEARS I have been blocking off the area where my pellet stove heat output comes out, when the stove is off, I used a flame resistant piece of foam. To make a long story short as possible, I shut stove down yesterday late morning, got dressed to go do yard work once stove had completely shut down I installed foam (seems to cut down on the draft from OAK when it's windy outside) and headed out. An hour later I came in, to a house filled with smoke every smoke detector going off, couldn't see 2' in front of me.it smelled electrical, so I took a deep breath and headed in to find my pellet stove burning, igniter hadn't been working for at least 2 years, so I thought. I had turned knob just slightly past off, to room temp, once temp dropped below 70* it kicked on... So glad dogs were with me. Totally my fault, felt stupid looking at a bunch of firemen as I finally figured what it was...
I'm sure we all "McGuyver" things, just hope mine & telling it here possibly saves someone the 15-25 minutes of horror I experienced yesterday. Not to mention having to open every window on a 38* day...
