I have a problem that I'm sure some of you folks could give me advice on. I have a "Century Hearth" wood stove, it works well, have had it for 8 winters and it has performed adequately, have had to do nothing more than replace a few fire bricks, replace the door and glass gaskets and painted it twice.
The problem is that when it is very cold and my heat pump kicks in especially if there is a smoldering fire in the wood stove, it will draw smoke out from around the wood stove door. I think the heat pump unit is drawing air from the rooms and not cold air returns. I had my oil furnace replaced with the geo thermal shortly after I had my wood stove installed so I don't know if it would have done the same thing with the oil furnace.
I usually don't run the geo thermal unit and wood stove at the same time but in very cold and windy weather I would like to as the house is drafty.
If anyone has a suggestion I would appreciate it, I asked the guy that installed the heat pump but haven't heard back from him.
The problem is that when it is very cold and my heat pump kicks in especially if there is a smoldering fire in the wood stove, it will draw smoke out from around the wood stove door. I think the heat pump unit is drawing air from the rooms and not cold air returns. I had my oil furnace replaced with the geo thermal shortly after I had my wood stove installed so I don't know if it would have done the same thing with the oil furnace.
I usually don't run the geo thermal unit and wood stove at the same time but in very cold and windy weather I would like to as the house is drafty.
If anyone has a suggestion I would appreciate it, I asked the guy that installed the heat pump but haven't heard back from him.