Ok, I posted here before not knowing what to do because smoke was pouring out of the hopper. i cleaned it out per the manufacturer instructions but still no hope. Today i took the entire stove apart to see if i could notice anything wrong. it looks pretty clean to me. i need some help.
Let me break everything down for you.
-I purchased a house with this pellet stove already in it, i had a contractor re-flu the stove. it goes straight up 6ft through the ceiling and a 6" offset in the attic then straight through the roof. this flu is less then 3 months old.
-I removed and cleaned the Lower Baffle plate as well as all the heat exchanger pipes, opened up the clean-out and vacuumed that out and removed the fire-pot and got out all the ash. emptied the ash box.
-Replaced the main door gasket and the ash box gasket with 1/2" for the main door and the small rope for the ash box with high temp silicone.
the Auger looks clean and so does the cup, all functions of the control board seem to work fine. and a good bit of air blows out from the fire-pots holes.
the stove starts up fine but once on for about an hour it starts smoking the entire house up.
anyone have any ideas?
i was talking to someone and they told me there should be a flap under the cup and above the auger so that pellets can go through but no smoke. is this true?
If so mine clearly don't have one and the instructions on the stove don't mention it either.
Let me break everything down for you.
-I purchased a house with this pellet stove already in it, i had a contractor re-flu the stove. it goes straight up 6ft through the ceiling and a 6" offset in the attic then straight through the roof. this flu is less then 3 months old.
-I removed and cleaned the Lower Baffle plate as well as all the heat exchanger pipes, opened up the clean-out and vacuumed that out and removed the fire-pot and got out all the ash. emptied the ash box.
-Replaced the main door gasket and the ash box gasket with 1/2" for the main door and the small rope for the ash box with high temp silicone.
the Auger looks clean and so does the cup, all functions of the control board seem to work fine. and a good bit of air blows out from the fire-pots holes.
the stove starts up fine but once on for about an hour it starts smoking the entire house up.
anyone have any ideas?
i was talking to someone and they told me there should be a flap under the cup and above the auger so that pellets can go through but no smoke. is this true?
If so mine clearly don't have one and the instructions on the stove don't mention it either.