Enviro55...smell of smoke

[libirm]

Have stove going on year 4....stove is well maintained . ..cleaned this season...burned a couple bags so far...
Woke up at 3:30 this am with a faint smell of wood burning . ...stove was on the first or number one setting . ..never had smell of smoke before or of any sort...
Could this just be a random small puff back or something more serious ?
Thanks for your thoughts

 

[Lake Girl]

You have ensured that internal exhaust pathways and venting are clean? Connection to liner is secure? Exhaust blower is clean and with intact gasket? Door/hopper/ash pan gaskets (as appropriate) pass the dollar bill test?

My bet would be that appropriate door gaskets may need to be replaced...

 

[libirm]

Could you suggest a source for door gasket?

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[Lake Girl]

Local stove shop or hardware store should have the kits. Better to get graphite impregnated gaskets as they are more durable (black in colour usually). Check your manual for size...

 

[johneh]

As you have never had this before .
At 3am you may of had a temp. inversion
outside. Forcing stove exhaust to the ground .
Smoke may have entered your house from a window
or a door or some other small opening .
This has happened to me

 

[libirm]

That's makes sense as well...I check the door gasket as well

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[johneh]

If it were a gasket you would have smoke smell all the time !
The door gasket and the ash pan gasket are on the suck side of the combustion fan
so if they were bad they would add air to the fire box and screw up the perfect flame
with air coming from the wrong place . Ask me how I know .

 

[libirm]

How do you know?

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[johneh]

Been there done that
Left the ash pan unlatched after a cleaning
On low lazy fire, high flame fire pot filling with ash
Poor pellet burn .
Had to do a mental check of all possibility's of cause
after playing around with settings found the pan unlatched
embarrassed or what ?

 

[Lake Girl]

It happens ... piled on all the majolica on the Elena only to remember that I didn't reconnect the vacuum switch

 

[NYBurner]

As you have never had this before .
At 3am you may of had a temp. inversion
outside. Forcing stove exhaust to the ground .
Smoke may have entered your house from a window
or a door or some other small opening .
This has happened to me

Have had this happen to me as well, kind of crazy occurrence. Would be kind of cool to witness it and see what the heck is happening haha.