Finally got around to it, my OAK is installed. So after the install I had trouble getting the stove to ramp up and getting it to burn hot enough to get the house much over 70. But I just found the problem, the area surrounding the stove was warm enough for the room sensor probe to not call for heat ( I could tell just by touching items around the stove, for a low burn things were quite warm unlike before). Thus far and it is only 34 outside not 16 or 0 but there is way less draft in the room going to the stove and well I guess the probe was satisfied, where in the past cold air passed by the probe on it's way to the stove. So I placed it behind the stove about 3 ft off the floor where convection air entering the stove might get at it, within about 6 minutes or so the stove ramped up and bailed heat like I have not smelled off the stove since we first fired it up last year. The house now is approaching 74 and I can turn the dial down and get a feel for how I will set the dial moving forward.. Ultimately I may move the probe to the dining room anyway though.
But ya plus plus, so far way less drafts and a little quieter ! Happy, even with the extra ugly piece of tube entering my fireplace ( I ran 3" tube up the chimney a ways and ended it there, re insulated around it at the smoke shelf). I think I need a little flat black paint on that tube.
But ya plus plus, so far way less drafts and a little quieter ! Happy, even with the extra ugly piece of tube entering my fireplace ( I ran 3" tube up the chimney a ways and ended it there, re insulated around it at the smoke shelf). I think I need a little flat black paint on that tube.
