Hello everyone. This is my first post on the site.
I live in NE Connecticut and am not a newb to burning wood. I am new to using an EPA stove though. I just purchased an Englander NC30 from H.D. I read the manual and tons of forums on here about the stove and best practices in operating.
Whats happening is I get the fire good and hot with stove top temps around 450. Let that burn down to mostly embers. Then i open the air fully, fully load the stove with red oak (more on that below), get a roaring fire again and back down the air per instructions and in doing so the stove top easily cruises to +700 with secondaries roaring and some healthy primary flame. This burns for about 2-3 hours and its nothing but a massive piles of coals at 3-4 hours temps are back down around 350-400.
The set up:
The single wall stove pipe come up out of the stove about 48" to a 90. Then roughly 28" to a 10" - snout for a stainless steel chimney liner. The liner is roughly 20' straight up. I applied furnace cement to the joints in an effort to ensure the flue pipe was sealed. Looks horrendous, but those joints are sealed...
I live in a very old house -1864- that is very drafty (always working at it)
My thought on the fast/high burn rate is that snout to the liner. I feel it is not sealed tight and pulling additional air in. I was going to pull the pipe apart and add stove gasket and caulk and re-seal this piece. Thoughts?
The wood:
When we bought the property in 2016, the previous owner had horses in which ate a ring of bark off the bottom of a lot of trees. This killed the trees. From my understanding this all took place between 2012 and 2015. I took down a red oak in march of 2017, cut, split and stacked in april. Originally my moisture was 23-27%. When i split a few into smaller pieces in october i was less than 20%
To me this stove seems to be ripping though wood way too fast. I know there is a learning curve with this stove and i feel i have a strong handle on running it. Once the stove is full and cranking away, i tend to leave it be until im down to coals.
Any thoughts on extending burn times? Ive thought about adding a damper to the flue pipe but read on here somewhere that isnt a good idea. Thanks in advance.
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I live in NE Connecticut and am not a newb to burning wood. I am new to using an EPA stove though. I just purchased an Englander NC30 from H.D. I read the manual and tons of forums on here about the stove and best practices in operating.
Whats happening is I get the fire good and hot with stove top temps around 450. Let that burn down to mostly embers. Then i open the air fully, fully load the stove with red oak (more on that below), get a roaring fire again and back down the air per instructions and in doing so the stove top easily cruises to +700 with secondaries roaring and some healthy primary flame. This burns for about 2-3 hours and its nothing but a massive piles of coals at 3-4 hours temps are back down around 350-400.
The set up:
The single wall stove pipe come up out of the stove about 48" to a 90. Then roughly 28" to a 10" - snout for a stainless steel chimney liner. The liner is roughly 20' straight up. I applied furnace cement to the joints in an effort to ensure the flue pipe was sealed. Looks horrendous, but those joints are sealed...
I live in a very old house -1864- that is very drafty (always working at it)
My thought on the fast/high burn rate is that snout to the liner. I feel it is not sealed tight and pulling additional air in. I was going to pull the pipe apart and add stove gasket and caulk and re-seal this piece. Thoughts?
The wood:
When we bought the property in 2016, the previous owner had horses in which ate a ring of bark off the bottom of a lot of trees. This killed the trees. From my understanding this all took place between 2012 and 2015. I took down a red oak in march of 2017, cut, split and stacked in april. Originally my moisture was 23-27%. When i split a few into smaller pieces in october i was less than 20%
To me this stove seems to be ripping though wood way too fast. I know there is a learning curve with this stove and i feel i have a strong handle on running it. Once the stove is full and cranking away, i tend to leave it be until im down to coals.
Any thoughts on extending burn times? Ive thought about adding a damper to the flue pipe but read on here somewhere that isnt a good idea. Thanks in advance.
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