have had this furnace for about 4 seasons now, we recently had a chimney fire in 20 year old double walled stainless exterior chimney. was quite scary. but my ???? is this, had a new chimney installed yesterday, and went to lit a fire last night, and got smoke out of it with lighting the kinlin, and loaded it as normal, and no smoke, after checking, i see the cleanout cap on the exterior is glowing red, as well as the thru-wall thimble on the inside, so we quickly shut the stove down. trying to figure why adding a new chimney would create more air suction into the stove when we changed no setting on the stove. we pretty much used the top push rod flue damper, and the top air damper is open approx 1 full turn, and the ash pan door is totally closed, but it was acting like a blow torch, so hot at the smoke flue. any help or advice, would be great
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brenndatomu
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had stove checked no cracks or leaking door gasket, when new black stove pipe was installed, there was a pretty good gap at the thru wall thimble. they feel that is what it is. they c=are coming to replace that on friday. so we shall see
TheBigIron
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Sounds like your running on an open chimney for the 1st time in awhile. Any gaps in the flue would reduce draft. A semi clogged chimney needs more air than an open one.
sorry for delay, they came back out, and found that the inside black pipe had a very loose fit, installed new thimble adapter at wall, and adjusted everything, started and no leaks or hot spots. been too warm to burn, so will see hopefully later this week.
been burning for over 15 years, they installed new chimney the other week, and found that the inside black pipe had a loose fit, and replaced adapter into the thimble into the wall, and adjusted everything to be to be tighter. so we shall see, been to warm to burn. hard part is with my stove, or these wood burning furnaces, no glass to see what that flame is doing, hard to adjust dampers to not back down too far and create creosote, ya know?
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