precaud said:Welcome to hearth.com. My suggestion is: I think you'll find that more people will read your posts if you organize your thoughts into paragraphs.
oldspark said:To add to that I DO NOT have a problem with my draft but I still have to have the door open when I start a new fire.
Ivy said:precaud said:Welcome to hearth.com. My suggestion is: I think you'll find that more people will read your posts if you organize your thoughts into paragraphs.
This is unnecessarily snarky. Newb comes to the forum looking for help and you hit him with prose critique?
Some stove have that in the owners manual and it is still fairly warm, have you seen all the posts from the people who start fires with the door open?Ivy said:oldspark said:To add to that I DO NOT have a problem with my draft but I still have to have the door open when I start a new fire.
"Problem with my draft" is a relative term.
I'd say that, for a PE stove, if you can't get a fire w/o the door open, then you have a problem with your draft. Just my opinion of what a problem is.
I say that because starting a fire with the door open presents an opportunity for bad things to happen.
In any event, I use top down method. Few logs on bottom, some 1" kindling, then a handful of 1/8" stuff.
Put the draft on high, hit the 1/8" stuff with a propane torch for a minute of less, blow a few times to get it hot and bothered, and close the door.
Success rate is about 99% with that method, if the wood is dry. 100% if I don't get lazy with the setup.
My stack is about 28 feet tall, triple wall.
oldspark said:Some stove have that in the owners manual and it is still fairly warm, have you seen all the posts from the people who start fires with the door open?
Ivy said:oldspark said:To add to that I DO NOT have a problem with my draft but I still have to have the door open when I start a new fire.
"Problem with my draft" is a relative term.
I'd say that, for a PE stove, if you can't get a fire w/o the door open, then you have a problem with your draft. Just my opinion of what a problem is.
I say that because starting a fire with the door open presents an opportunity for bad things to happen.
In any event, I use top down method. Few logs on bottom, some 1" kindling, then a handful of 1/8" stuff.
Put the draft on high, hit the 1/8" stuff with a propane torch for a minute of less, blow a few times to get it hot and bothered, and close the door.
Success rate is about 99% with that method, if the wood is dry. 100% if I don't get lazy with the setup.
My stack is about 28 feet tall, triple wall.
north of 60 said:Ivy said:precaud said:Welcome to hearth.com. My suggestion is: I think you'll find that more people will read your posts if you organize your thoughts into paragraphs.
This is unnecessarily snarky. Newb comes to the forum looking for help and you hit him with prose critique?
Precaud made perfect helpful sense which tho OP has used which got him helpful answer's, and talk about Cat snarky. Time to use the ignore button once again.
Come on, that makes no sense.BeGreen said:On that same path, anytime you start a fire there is an opportunity for bad things to happen. What's the actual concern?
BeGreen said:On that same path, anytime you start a fire there is an opportunity for bad things to happen. What's the actual concern?
What if it is impossible for the stove to have a 2 story flue? 28ft is a tall stack.
~*~vvv~*~ said:whats the color of the flame?
BeGreen said:Let's try to focus on the OP and find out why this 1400 is balking. I am concerned about having modified the config on a new stove. That appears to be treating the symptoms and not the problem, but may have repercussions once the actual problem is remedied.
Primary suspects are a combo of so-so wood, short flue and warm outside temps. Need to confirm that the baffle was seated all the way to the rear of the stove.
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