Inside paint flaking off new Jotul F55

[BartMX]

So I pulled the trigger and went with the Jotul F55. Loved the look as well as the small hearth requirement. Passed the inspection last Thursday, and so far I did three burns in the stove, as printed in the manual. This last one I got the temp of the exhaust pipe up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit. With my electric gun thermometer the stovetop never exceeded 278 degrees. After the burn I was cleaning out the inside (glad I went with the F55 over the F50) and noticed what appeared to be paint flaking off the back. Now I used some dry kindling to start the fires as well as small dry splits in the fires. I even used a stack of wood we bought 2 years ago at the grocery store. Is it normal? The outside of the stove looks great, I'm just worried I screwed something up. Could it be creosote from less than perfect wood?

 

[begreen]

That looks a bit more like a film of creosote that is burning off, not paint. I wouldn't worry about it. It will be gone for the most part with your first hot fire that gets the stove fully warmed up. (Stovetop at 5-600F.)

 

[TheRambler]

Creosote, it will burn off in a hot fire.

 

[firefighterjake]

Agreed . . . creosote . . . but even if it was paint I wouldn't worry too much . . . any paint inside the firebox will soon be burned off with a few hot fires.

 

[BartMX]

Another question for you guys. I have a Jotul temp gauge on the pipe going into the thimble/chimney. It's reading 350 degrees. Wood is 16-19% on my moisture gauge. The secondaries are fully lit. What am I doing wrong? More wood

 

[Grisu]

If that is single wall pipe, 350 F outside temp indicates roughly 700 F inside temp. That's perfectly fine. You want to keep it above 250 F internal temp all the way to the top. For double-wall pipe you will need an internal probe thermometer and 350 F would actually be really high.

However, looking at your picture you could load a lot more wood and increase burn times (if that is not some late stage burn).

 

[begreen]

Move the thermometer to the stove top for a while and see what the temps are there on the trivet.

 

[BobUrban]

all good - you need space shuttle paint to survive the inside of a stove. Jotul must have run out?

 

[Morris]

I too installed a new F55 this fall. I haven't noticed the inside paint flaking, although I still experience a burn-in-like smell every time the stove goes 600+. The stove has a flat finish, but i can tell that the parts that got the hottest have lost what little sheen they had. So it seems the paint is still .... burning in?

i've enjoyed reading this forum.

 

[Morris]

I actually do notice the paint in the back of the stove - as shown above - has flaked off.

 

[tarzan]

Guys, that rear burn tube looks pulled out in the center with something shoved in behind it. Is that normal or an illusion I'm seeing or what?

Ok, I think I see. What looks shoved behind the burn tube in the second pic is actually going through it. The flash on the build up is making the burn tube look pulled out to me.

 

[clark77]

It looks like there's an ash grate in the first pic. The inside of my f55 doesn't look like that.

 

[JonOfSunderland]

It's an F50, not an F55. You can see the top load door handle and ash pan in the front view.

 

[clark77]

Ok, I thought you said you had a f55.