We have a Century CW2500 in a masonry fireplace going on our 4th year. The first 2.5 years it went very well but in the middle of last season we starting having a very bad problem of large volumes of very fine ash through out our entire split level home. It was sticking to anything plastic, mainly noticeable in the kitchen on tupperware and the like, even if the cabinets weren't opened. It was in the air stream throughout the house, causing a noticeable haze at times. It came and went, worse some days than others. It killed the fan on a humidifier and would clog my furnace filter so bad that it would shut off due to high temp because of lack of airflow, the filter was caked with ash. It would cake up in 3-4 weeks.
See this post I made before last year about our fuel... very old hedge fence posts. It made great heat but I fear that it (i.e. me) overfired our stove and popped a weld, possibly causing this problem.
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/worried-about-my-hedge-stack-please-advise.90412/
It's been 1 week worth of burning this year and the symptoms are returning... we haven't even scoped ash yet this year and I've already had to replace a furnace filter from ash buildup.
We can't use the stove like this and I'll have to decommission it until we determine the problem and hopefully fix it. Can we fix it? Is it ruined? The CW2500 is not a high quality stove to begin with... maybe it couldn't handle the hedge?
Thanks for any feedback...
Threads I used for reference that sound similar:
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/evidence-of-air-polution-in-our-house.65066/
Doug in KC
See this post I made before last year about our fuel... very old hedge fence posts. It made great heat but I fear that it (i.e. me) overfired our stove and popped a weld, possibly causing this problem.
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/worried-about-my-hedge-stack-please-advise.90412/
It's been 1 week worth of burning this year and the symptoms are returning... we haven't even scoped ash yet this year and I've already had to replace a furnace filter from ash buildup.
We can't use the stove like this and I'll have to decommission it until we determine the problem and hopefully fix it. Can we fix it? Is it ruined? The CW2500 is not a high quality stove to begin with... maybe it couldn't handle the hedge?
Thanks for any feedback...
Threads I used for reference that sound similar:
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/evidence-of-air-polution-in-our-house.65066/
Doug in KC