We purchased the MF Fire Nova 2 for a fairly major remodel in our house built in 1991. We had a Lopi in a medium sized office on the first floor of the house and it cooked my wife (who's been working from home for the last 2 years). We made the hard decision to completely wreck out a nice brick inglenook and chimney so we could put the MF fire in the living room which is adjacent to the office on the same floor.
The installer said he wouldnt bother installing the outside air due to the vintage of my house. The 6" flue is about 13'. 2 feet higher than the roof 10 feet away. I have had back draft problems from the beginning. Can't open the door more than a couple inches without smoke rolling out. I've grown up with wood stoves. Tried everything, crack a window, make sure no fans on make sure hvac is off. The installer said I could take off the restriction plates in the throat. That didn't work and made it even harder to get up to catalyst temp. So I re-installed them (cussing my installer the entire time). I told the installer and he said he would come up and add a section of flue. He never showed up so I happened to find two 3' sections of duravent 6" insulated pipe. I tried one section for 24hrs to no avail. Then tried the second section, still no help. I keep asking the guy I bought it from if there's something going on in the stove because I've read that there can be problems with cat install. He's supposed to finally come later this week but I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions.
I never had a single draft problem with my Lopi for the 4 years I've lived in this house and the Lopi chimney wasn't any taller than the standard code. The woodstove is now in a large room, open concept with 17 foot ceiling at the peak sloped up from 8 feet at the stove with a 3/12 pitch. The Lopi was in a high ceiling room too but it had a set of French doors going to main part of house.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
The installer said he wouldnt bother installing the outside air due to the vintage of my house. The 6" flue is about 13'. 2 feet higher than the roof 10 feet away. I have had back draft problems from the beginning. Can't open the door more than a couple inches without smoke rolling out. I've grown up with wood stoves. Tried everything, crack a window, make sure no fans on make sure hvac is off. The installer said I could take off the restriction plates in the throat. That didn't work and made it even harder to get up to catalyst temp. So I re-installed them (cussing my installer the entire time). I told the installer and he said he would come up and add a section of flue. He never showed up so I happened to find two 3' sections of duravent 6" insulated pipe. I tried one section for 24hrs to no avail. Then tried the second section, still no help. I keep asking the guy I bought it from if there's something going on in the stove because I've read that there can be problems with cat install. He's supposed to finally come later this week but I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions.
I never had a single draft problem with my Lopi for the 4 years I've lived in this house and the Lopi chimney wasn't any taller than the standard code. The woodstove is now in a large room, open concept with 17 foot ceiling at the peak sloped up from 8 feet at the stove with a 3/12 pitch. The Lopi was in a high ceiling room too but it had a set of French doors going to main part of house.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
