So I'm at a clients home today cleaning out two Whitfields, a P20 and a P30. After a very thorough cleaning of the P30 I start it up. OH NO! Smoke is pouring into the house. Quickly I grab the burnpot out with vice grips and bring it outside and then toss my shop vac in to the exterior clean out vent. I double check everything and start it up again. Oh No!! More smoke, but then the fire catches and it quickly escapes. Weird hugh?
So I go up stairs and clean out the P20, after a very thorough cleaning I start it up. OH NO!! smoke in the house. And a lot of it!! YIKES! Before I can move the burnpot out the fire catches and the smoke escapes....Couldn't figure it out.
I go up on the roof to inspect the rain caps in the vent pipes and I found the problem. She had her house attic vents on to cool off the house cause it was so muggy. Hmmm.
I turned the attic vents off and restarted the stoves. No problems. Who would of thunk it. Another one for the check lists. Boy this list gets longer and longer each year.
So I go up stairs and clean out the P20, after a very thorough cleaning I start it up. OH NO!! smoke in the house. And a lot of it!! YIKES! Before I can move the burnpot out the fire catches and the smoke escapes....Couldn't figure it out.
I go up on the roof to inspect the rain caps in the vent pipes and I found the problem. She had her house attic vents on to cool off the house cause it was so muggy. Hmmm.
I turned the attic vents off and restarted the stoves. No problems. Who would of thunk it. Another one for the check lists. Boy this list gets longer and longer each year.