My stove has been running hot this year. I've had this problem in the past and have been wondering if it was chimney setup or operator error, etc.
Much forum searching and manual checking and close examination led me to believe that my chimney is NOT the problem. Then I thought that perhaps running this epa-exempt stove with nice firewood was the problem as it definitely gets worse the nicer my wood gets.
I mentioned elsewhere that I forgot to shut my stove down recently and knew it had likely overfired. Today was the first day I've been able to shut it completely down to give it a once over. I cleaned it out completely and looked over every square inch of it. It looks to be in perfect shape. I cleaned the chimney for fun, it seems to be in great shape as well.
Then I started fiddling with the air control mechanism and am noticing how loose it is. The Air control is one of the main things that really helped me make the decision for this stove. Not many epa-exempt stoves seemed to have that when i was looking.
I post this because if there are other owners out there having a similar problem then they might try this as well.
The air control "box" over the door has a screw at each end that you loosen. When you tighten them, press the box against the stove. This seals the sliding plate within that "block" against the stove tightly, really making sure less air is flowing in when it's shut down tightly.
Not that it will help a lot, but here's a picture I pulled from the manual. I had to add the screw that I'm talking about, but if you look at your stove you'll figure it out. You should be able to do this even with a hot stove, just wear gloves and be careful.
It's one of those things that is so simple it was easy to not consider it. I spent forever trying to figure out if my gasket was going or something.
Much forum searching and manual checking and close examination led me to believe that my chimney is NOT the problem. Then I thought that perhaps running this epa-exempt stove with nice firewood was the problem as it definitely gets worse the nicer my wood gets.
I mentioned elsewhere that I forgot to shut my stove down recently and knew it had likely overfired. Today was the first day I've been able to shut it completely down to give it a once over. I cleaned it out completely and looked over every square inch of it. It looks to be in perfect shape. I cleaned the chimney for fun, it seems to be in great shape as well.
Then I started fiddling with the air control mechanism and am noticing how loose it is. The Air control is one of the main things that really helped me make the decision for this stove. Not many epa-exempt stoves seemed to have that when i was looking.
I post this because if there are other owners out there having a similar problem then they might try this as well.
The air control "box" over the door has a screw at each end that you loosen. When you tighten them, press the box against the stove. This seals the sliding plate within that "block" against the stove tightly, really making sure less air is flowing in when it's shut down tightly.
Not that it will help a lot, but here's a picture I pulled from the manual. I had to add the screw that I'm talking about, but if you look at your stove you'll figure it out. You should be able to do this even with a hot stove, just wear gloves and be careful.
It's one of those things that is so simple it was easy to not consider it. I spent forever trying to figure out if my gasket was going or something.
