Hello!
We bought an Oslo about 6 months back and finally have the construction and chimney attachment done (Selkirk MetalBestos through the inside of a two story colonial.. Straight shot probably around 25+ feet or so to the top piece). Burned starting fire #1 last night (the 200 degree one). Had some struggles getting it going but once I did it kept going nice. I pretty much just used small kindling/tinder and kept the front control all the way to the right.
This morning we did break in burn number 2 (supposed to max at 300) and again found we had to keep the control all the way right. It wasn't building up as nice as I wanted to temp so I added a split of a split (I took a couple splits and split them further for this burn). Ended up getting the corner temp (happened to be the corner the flames were licking most) to about 360/370. Warm day here (64 in the house, probably 66/67 outside) so I'm hoping not too much stress on the stove but I don't think the extra 60/70 degrees will hurt it? I ended up moving the lever all the way to the left and it is a mostly coals and small flame fire now.. Heat going back down towards 300.
Really excited getting these fires going and really looking forward to needing to get it to secondary burn temperature in a few weeks up here in NH. Videos of those look pretty neat. Ended up trying the Top Down method i read about here for todays fire. Much nicer. We definitely have a firebox full of smoke for the first couple minutes, though. I imagine we have plenty of draft, could just be the quality of newspaper or dampness of wood (cut and split in April/May, live in a really windy area for drying but took some pieces from the top of the uncovered pile with recent rains/dew)
Thanks for all the good comments, answers to questions and everything else on these forums. We have a 2 year seasoned cord stored at a neighbors house that we'll be using first for the real burning (I read that the Jotuls or any EPA stove are really sensitive to needing seasoned wood.. Hoping by the time we go through that first cord the stuff cut/split/stacked first will be dryer in basement/stored near stove also).
We'll be relying on our Oil to help heat some far upstairs bedrooms. House setup isn't ideal but we moved some walls and took out a couple doors/headers in the room it is in to better circulate. House is about 2300SF. Firelight was too big to get where the Mrs. wanted it.
We bought an Oslo about 6 months back and finally have the construction and chimney attachment done (Selkirk MetalBestos through the inside of a two story colonial.. Straight shot probably around 25+ feet or so to the top piece). Burned starting fire #1 last night (the 200 degree one). Had some struggles getting it going but once I did it kept going nice. I pretty much just used small kindling/tinder and kept the front control all the way to the right.
This morning we did break in burn number 2 (supposed to max at 300) and again found we had to keep the control all the way right. It wasn't building up as nice as I wanted to temp so I added a split of a split (I took a couple splits and split them further for this burn). Ended up getting the corner temp (happened to be the corner the flames were licking most) to about 360/370. Warm day here (64 in the house, probably 66/67 outside) so I'm hoping not too much stress on the stove but I don't think the extra 60/70 degrees will hurt it? I ended up moving the lever all the way to the left and it is a mostly coals and small flame fire now.. Heat going back down towards 300.
Really excited getting these fires going and really looking forward to needing to get it to secondary burn temperature in a few weeks up here in NH. Videos of those look pretty neat. Ended up trying the Top Down method i read about here for todays fire. Much nicer. We definitely have a firebox full of smoke for the first couple minutes, though. I imagine we have plenty of draft, could just be the quality of newspaper or dampness of wood (cut and split in April/May, live in a really windy area for drying but took some pieces from the top of the uncovered pile with recent rains/dew)
Thanks for all the good comments, answers to questions and everything else on these forums. We have a 2 year seasoned cord stored at a neighbors house that we'll be using first for the real burning (I read that the Jotuls or any EPA stove are really sensitive to needing seasoned wood.. Hoping by the time we go through that first cord the stuff cut/split/stacked first will be dryer in basement/stored near stove also).
We'll be relying on our Oil to help heat some far upstairs bedrooms. House setup isn't ideal but we moved some walls and took out a couple doors/headers in the room it is in to better circulate. House is about 2300SF. Firelight was too big to get where the Mrs. wanted it.