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Can you smell your stove

Post in 'The Hearth Room - Wood Stoves and Fireplaces' started by Rick, Dec 6, 2005.

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  1. Rick Member

    joined: Nov 23, 2005
    185 posts
    Connecticut
    When your stove gets hotter than normal does it give off an odor? I was once told that it was dust "burning" off. It doesn't smell bad, doesn't burn the eyes or anything like that. I kinda like it. I just wonder what it is. My last stove did the same thing.

    Rick
    Rick, Dec 6, 2005
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  2. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,949 posts
    Northern Virginia
    At higher heat levels every stove I have had puts off some odor. I can walk into the house and tell if the stove is burning normally of if somebody has "cranked it up".

    By the way, does everybody see the same Google ad in the lower left corner of this thread that I do? Has to do with odor.
    BrotherBart, Dec 6, 2005
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  3. Rick Member

    joined: Nov 23, 2005
    185 posts
    Connecticut
    OH my, that is hilarious. No, it doesn't smell anything like that!

    Rick
    Rick, Dec 6, 2005
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  4. Xena Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 30, 2005
    2,436 posts
    South Shore MA
    Lol. Yep. I see that vaginal odor ad. IT's ok, you are allowed to say it i they can advertise it here. ;)

    Yeah I can smell something different when the stove is cranked up higher.
    Xena, Dec 6, 2005
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  5. RedSleds New Member

    joined: Nov 19, 2005
    18 posts
    PDX
    Nope! But I'm at work, ...... 40 miles away =O)
    RedSleds, Dec 6, 2005
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  6. begreen Super Moderator

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    36,118 posts
    South Puget Sound, WA
    My previous stove was a pre EPA Jotul 602. It was easy to overfire the stove, especially when burning fir. I might not see the thermometer right away, but I knew it was overfiring by the smell. It just smelt hot.
    begreen, Dec 7, 2005
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  7. bruce Member

    joined: Nov 20, 2005
    191 posts
    long pond pa
    its there again,, are they selling?
    yes i can smell my wood stove when its running hot
    bruce, Dec 7, 2005
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  8. Eric Johnson Minister of Fire

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    5,703 posts
    Central NYS
    Smells like hot steel. The stove, I mean.
    Eric Johnson, Dec 7, 2005
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  9. Willhound New Member

    joined: Nov 20, 2005
    441 posts
    Northern Ontario, Canada
    I've noticed that the google ads are usually keyed to certain words in the post. The wonders of internet marketing. I hope that for Craig's benefit these google ads help defray the costs of the software and bandwidth required to run the forum. I'm cool with that considering that some forum's are subject to much more intrusive and aggravating marketing techniques like pop-ups, etc.

    Just don't anybody post anything about getting a "larger unit".

    Oooops. Just did. :red:


    Willhound ;-P
    Willhound, Dec 7, 2005
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  10. rudysmallfry Feeling the Heat

    joined: Nov 29, 2005
    309 posts
    Milford, CT
    I smelled something with my new Heritage, but I figured that was the oils still burning off from the stove being new. I am however very impressed with how clean these puppies burn. While I was outside handing Christmas lights, I could neither see nor smell smoke coming out of my chimney. Then the next morning when my stove was cooled down, the room didn't stink of burned wood. I'm liking these newer stove a lot.
    rudysmallfry, Dec 7, 2005
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  11. webbie Administrator

    joined: Nov 17, 2005
    10,939 posts
    Western Mass.
    Ha Ha....that's funny!

    Now we just need the ads for male odors so we can be equal opportunity offenders...
    And, of course those of you who clicked on the ad helped me make some money!
    webbie, Dec 7, 2005
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  12. bruce56bb New Member

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    333 posts
    Flint Hills of Kansas
    i've never noticed THAT odor from my stove......right now it smells like $$$$$$:)
    bruce56bb, Dec 7, 2005
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  13. BrotherBart He Who Moderates

    joined: Nov 18, 2005
    21,949 posts
    Northern Virginia
    Now every time my stove gets real hot I think of... Oh never mind.
    BrotherBart, Dec 7, 2005
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