Hello again all,
Got my VC Resolute Acclaim a couple years back. Needed a rebuild, so I did it myself, ground up.
Ran great for a year. Then last year, I'd get a very strong smoke/fume smell inside the house when trying to do long slow burns, mostly at night. No visible smoke, just overbearing smell. The chimney is new, goes straight up through the 2nd floor into the attic. 6".
I have a shielded stove pipe coming off the stove up to the chimney, directly above it.
I've rebuilt the stove two weeks ago thinking that was the cause. Last night it happened again.
I think I'm burning too low for it to keep the draft going all night, but last night I came downstairs after being woken up by the smell and found the stove in the 450-500 degree range. I can't figure it out. All new gaskets (twice now), all new cement, cleaned out all joints before cementing with a wire wheel/angle grinder.
There has to be something I'm missing or doing wrong.
OR, my house is too "tight". Built in 2004, 1600 square feet fully dormered cape.
I cracked a window about an inch last night and I got a pretty decent draft blasting on in.
So, few questions for you guys:
1. Could I not have enough pressure in the house after a long burn at night to allow a steady air supply, resulting in a backdraft condition? Possible remedies to this without chilling my house during the winter? I could go outside-air kit, if I could find one for my stove, but that would involve putting a hole down through the tile floor I put in under the stove. If I need to, fine, but I'd hope not to have to.
2. Is there any way to check the chimney to make sure it's not leaking there? It's a twist lock SS Duratech 6" job, says not to use any gaskets. All the joints are tight.
3. Should I have some rope gasket on the top of my double wall stove pipe where it connects to my chimney? Didn't run it that way initially, but who knows. As a precaution, I added some rope gasket to the bottom of the double wall stove pipe where it sits on the stove since that connection doesn't seem very tight.
Thanks for the help guys, I'm just baffled and getting tired of waking up with my eyes burning.
Got my VC Resolute Acclaim a couple years back. Needed a rebuild, so I did it myself, ground up.
Ran great for a year. Then last year, I'd get a very strong smoke/fume smell inside the house when trying to do long slow burns, mostly at night. No visible smoke, just overbearing smell. The chimney is new, goes straight up through the 2nd floor into the attic. 6".
I have a shielded stove pipe coming off the stove up to the chimney, directly above it.
I've rebuilt the stove two weeks ago thinking that was the cause. Last night it happened again.
I think I'm burning too low for it to keep the draft going all night, but last night I came downstairs after being woken up by the smell and found the stove in the 450-500 degree range. I can't figure it out. All new gaskets (twice now), all new cement, cleaned out all joints before cementing with a wire wheel/angle grinder.
There has to be something I'm missing or doing wrong.
OR, my house is too "tight". Built in 2004, 1600 square feet fully dormered cape.
I cracked a window about an inch last night and I got a pretty decent draft blasting on in.
So, few questions for you guys:
1. Could I not have enough pressure in the house after a long burn at night to allow a steady air supply, resulting in a backdraft condition? Possible remedies to this without chilling my house during the winter? I could go outside-air kit, if I could find one for my stove, but that would involve putting a hole down through the tile floor I put in under the stove. If I need to, fine, but I'd hope not to have to.
2. Is there any way to check the chimney to make sure it's not leaking there? It's a twist lock SS Duratech 6" job, says not to use any gaskets. All the joints are tight.
3. Should I have some rope gasket on the top of my double wall stove pipe where it connects to my chimney? Didn't run it that way initially, but who knows. As a precaution, I added some rope gasket to the bottom of the double wall stove pipe where it sits on the stove since that connection doesn't seem very tight.
Thanks for the help guys, I'm just baffled and getting tired of waking up with my eyes burning.
