Hello Everyone
I am new to this forum and have some questions. I have been burning wood for over 35 years. I have had a few different stoves, all standard baffled wood stoves. For the last 20 years I have been using an insert in my great room and it has worked very well, noisy and kind of inefficient, but plenty of heat.
Last week we replaced it with a Montpellier insert and I have found the EPA stoves to be a whole new learning experience.
I have a few things i am hoping you can help me with:
1: I seem to need to crack the door at start-up, there is not a lot of draft with the lever all the way to the left. Is this normal?
2: The air channels in the front seem to very easily get full of ash, if there was much air coming in why does the airflow not keep the channels clear?
3: I have a lot of coals build up, this may be a matter of letting it burn down with some softwood, but I feel like I may be spending a fair bit of time keeping the stove from filling up with coals. My other insert could burn for a week or more without thinking about cleaning it out
4: I have to be very careful opening the doors during a burn or I get plenty of smoke into the room
That should be enough for now, thanks in advance for your help!
I am new to this forum and have some questions. I have been burning wood for over 35 years. I have had a few different stoves, all standard baffled wood stoves. For the last 20 years I have been using an insert in my great room and it has worked very well, noisy and kind of inefficient, but plenty of heat.
Last week we replaced it with a Montpellier insert and I have found the EPA stoves to be a whole new learning experience.
I have a few things i am hoping you can help me with:
1: I seem to need to crack the door at start-up, there is not a lot of draft with the lever all the way to the left. Is this normal?
2: The air channels in the front seem to very easily get full of ash, if there was much air coming in why does the airflow not keep the channels clear?
3: I have a lot of coals build up, this may be a matter of letting it burn down with some softwood, but I feel like I may be spending a fair bit of time keeping the stove from filling up with coals. My other insert could burn for a week or more without thinking about cleaning it out
4: I have to be very careful opening the doors during a burn or I get plenty of smoke into the room
That should be enough for now, thanks in advance for your help!