I had a new energy audit done. When the door blower test was done to see the air drafts coming into the house, a huge problem was my Vermont Casting wood stove, a big Defiant installed in the early 1980's. Air was rushing in from the little flap on the back for air control with a lever, and all doors. Even from the seam of the two sections of the pipe to the outside.
The damper was closed. But then I realize the hot air goes around this in a curve and up, so the stove is really open to outside. The audit guy said that if a fire is burning it should be OK with hot air rising, but when a fire is not burning air could be drawn into the house (big time).
I doubt anything I do to this old stove won't make any real difference except to totally wrap it up (slightly impractical).
Are new stoves different and far more draft free? My heat is literally going up the chimney......or perhaps more correcting coming IN the chimney.
The damper was closed. But then I realize the hot air goes around this in a curve and up, so the stove is really open to outside. The audit guy said that if a fire is burning it should be OK with hot air rising, but when a fire is not burning air could be drawn into the house (big time).
I doubt anything I do to this old stove won't make any real difference except to totally wrap it up (slightly impractical).
Are new stoves different and far more draft free? My heat is literally going up the chimney......or perhaps more correcting coming IN the chimney.