wood burning tight house

My wood stove seemed to burn ok last winter but with the kitchen range hood on and me loading the stove it would fill the house with smoke.

I have installed my own O.A.K this year so when the cool weather comes I will be interesting to see any differences in the burn.

Outside air kit...in hearth wiki.....

Never burned wood in a house with an hrv system, but there was a pretty lengthy thread here a couple of months ago about. Trying searching. From my experience, tight house normally equals outside air.

Sounds like a good candidate for an OAK for sure.

Shawn

an hrv introduces as much air as it removes. it reclaims some of the heat from the inside air, passing it onto the outside air, before the outside air is introduced into the house.
if you have a "tight" house, the hrv will not present any extra air that you can depend upon for combustion air for the wood stove. what will happen is the wood stove will use up any available combustion air in the house until it places the house in a negative pressure situation. this in turn will result in poor draft and eventually a smokey home.
final answer...yes, you need an oak for a tight home

Add one more vote to the list. The fire in the stove needs air to burn and will get it from somewhere. Tight house = need to draw air from outside the home.

I have seen problems with woodstoves burning in a tight house either not burning hot or smoke being pulled out under low draft conditions when the central furnace comes on. On easy way to check to see if an outside air kit would help is to just crack a window. If the problem goes away then it needs more outside air into the house.

OAK= better humidity and frost control for my home in my climate. I also like to know where my stoves dedicated combustion air is coming from. It leaves all the guessing out. ;-)