I have not burned the stove for about a week and just fired it up tonight. Immediately once the paper was burning smoke started pooring out the door and was coming out the 3" intake (camera box thingy under the stove). It quickly filled the room with smoke. I immediately shut the air off and it quickly went out. I opened a basement window aired things out and tried it again. It started up with no problems and got the draft going the right direction. This is my second year burning and the first time I have seen this. The stove is in the basement with a very tall stack. BeGreen has told me before that I have a negative pressure or something going on in my basement. Hopefully he is not reading this because he will say "told you so". It seems that the issues I have had in the past have gone away. When I was first getting used to things I would occassionally get small amounts of smoking coming out the door, but never the intake. Do you think I might have had a very rare & strange air pressure situation that got the stove confused about which way to send the smoke? I did a visual from the ground of the chimney cap and it looks pretty clean, no dripping of creosote and a barely visible stream of smoke coming out.
Once the fire was going for a little while I did close that window and no smoke comes out when opening the door.
Once the fire was going for a little while I did close that window and no smoke comes out when opening the door.