Help wood stove/chimney poor draft after 15 years

[jimmy dean]

The "furnace" is a boiler and with its bowerfull burner fan motor and a "tight"(er) house a portion of the air required to make up the combustion air for the boiler is being sucked down the adjacent chimney. One solution -lower cost- is to have a "frash air boot" system installed on the burner, this system provides a direct OUTSIDE air supply for the boiler and effectively stops the depresurization of the COMBUSTION AIR ZONE in this case the basement.

 

[jimmy dean]

To Update 4:
do you have a window in that basement that can open? If so open it, then test the status of your stove draft, if that helps consider installing a passive 4" pvc exterior air intake adjacent to the stove ( put a "J" in the bottom - just above the floor- to stop a chimney effect when the stove is off)

 

[Jotulover]

Update3

I sealed the small are where the possible leak was. I am not sure if it was my imagination, but the stove seemed to light/burn better, for a little while, then it started to die out again!

Its hard to believe the stove started leaking that bad over the summer, to the point where it won't draw, but no visible leaks.

Back to square 1, can't keep a fire burning. The only options I see at this point are:

1 Try a fan on the top
2 Try a Draw Collar
3 try a new stove, if that does not help
4 try a new chimney

Does anyone have any experience with either the fans on top of the chimney or the draw collar? Since this worked for so long either fix kinda sound like a bandid fix, but??

Options 3-4 are the most expensive, and 4 is also a lot of work! Not sure if it is Worth it?

At this point I really don't know what to try. The other thought was to wait until warmer weather, take the stove outside and use black pipe to connect a chimney of the same specs as the one I have. If it burns properly that would indicate a chimney draft problem, if not a stove problem??

As always any other advise

Thanks

The Draw Collar worked great for us!

also check with this guy.

https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/member/17075/

https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/47730/#529980

 

[VCBurner]

Have you tried to read the draft inside your flue. You need a draft guage inserted into the connector with a fire going in order to get a reading. What kind of stove do you have? In a basement you may not have enough air supply to keep the stove going. Try opening a window while the fire is going to see if you can keep it going. Then you know you need more air to the stove.

 

[PLR822]

Chimney fan or draft inducer is what seems to work. I know tjernlund makes both. www.Tjernlund.com.

 

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