Hello everyone,
New to the forum, thanks for reading this.
I am not new to burning. I had a Lopi Revere insert installed in my house in Nor Cal on the coast about 9 years ago. I have most likely burned in this stove over 1000 times, with no problems at all.
About 3 weeks ago, I went to light a fire, in my usual manner. A minute later, I came back into a smoke filled room. Eventually, the fire took and it cleared the flue, and smoke poured out the chimney like normal.
This episode spurred a call to my local sweep, who came out and inspected everything. Said I had some heavy build up, nothing crazy, and everything else looked great. No problems...
Last night, I went to light a fire for the first time since he came out. Boom, same problem... only this time I could not get the smoke to clear. I tried to light crumpled paper to see if that would clear, but no go... I called my wood stove shop this morning, and hes stumped.. was talking about negative pressure, but I am not buying that. Why, in 10 years and over a 1000 fires, would this occur back to back?
Anyone have any advice for me? Thanks
New to the forum, thanks for reading this.
I am not new to burning. I had a Lopi Revere insert installed in my house in Nor Cal on the coast about 9 years ago. I have most likely burned in this stove over 1000 times, with no problems at all.
About 3 weeks ago, I went to light a fire, in my usual manner. A minute later, I came back into a smoke filled room. Eventually, the fire took and it cleared the flue, and smoke poured out the chimney like normal.
This episode spurred a call to my local sweep, who came out and inspected everything. Said I had some heavy build up, nothing crazy, and everything else looked great. No problems...
Last night, I went to light a fire for the first time since he came out. Boom, same problem... only this time I could not get the smoke to clear. I tried to light crumpled paper to see if that would clear, but no go... I called my wood stove shop this morning, and hes stumped.. was talking about negative pressure, but I am not buying that. Why, in 10 years and over a 1000 fires, would this occur back to back?
Anyone have any advice for me? Thanks