First fire... Funky smells

[bryankloos]

Probably paranoid here but just lit up the summit for the first time this season and she is smelling a bit funky. Probably just dust burning off the stove, right?

 

[Grisu]

That's the paint that is curing. There will always be some whenever you reach a new max temp. Open some windows, start with a small fire break-in fire and then make them increasingly bigger. A good way to also learn about proper operation of the stove and how it burns with different air settings.

Edit: Scrap that. I overlooked the "first time this season". In your case, it is probably dust then.

 

[kennyp2339]

I get the same dust smell, no matter how clean you get, theres always some hiding some where

 

[bryankloos]

Thanks guys. Smelling better already. Boy it's toasty in here right now

 

[kennyp2339]

Yup, lit mine a little more than an hour ago, the room temp was 65 and now climbed to 72, outside the temp is dropping, was 48 no down to 43, 33 is the forecasted bottom, Im still using wood that I didn't burn last year and was sitting on my porch over the summer, good luck with your heating season

 

[Nick Mystic]

That's why I tell the wife to go easy on the cleaning. Get things too pristine and come woodstove season it's too easy to smell the stove!

 

[Dix]

What dust??

 

[JTRock]

The smells coming off the dura vent pipe just installed on my pellet stove this morning remind me of my the valve cover gaskets leaking on my 1st car (78 Buick Regal) lol!