I have a DutchWest 2461 in my livingroom.
This stove is actually too big for the room, even given that it's a pretty good sized room with cathedral ceilings and two skylights; but I didn't buy it. It came with the house.
Anyway, as I said, it's a 2461 and it has a 6" flue that is straight all the way to it's termination point. No bends.
So I had a Chimney Sweep come in to clean my chimneys this past summer, and he told me the proper way to use the stove, in terms of the catalyst.
I had previously been burning it at around 500 degrees according to the thermometer that sits in the top; and I had never closed the catalyst. Heck, I wasn't sure I even HAD one. I thought that was a damper. Shows how much I knew, right?
Anyway, he said to let it come up to about 500 and then close the catalyst. He also said that it would double in temperature with the cat running. I figured he was exaggerating.
So about a month ago, I did just that. I had like... I don't know... three logs inside it I think?
So I closed the cat and I went about my business elsewhere in the house
I came back in about a half hour and noticed that the room was over 80 degrees! OK, this was just a cool day, being only down to the mid 50's, but still...
So I check out the stove and I notice that the glass is completely clean (which is unusual) and there don't appear to be any flames. Huh?
I get closer and it appears that the flames have completely lifted off of the wood and are dancing around the upper portion of the stove. On the inside of course, but it was still an odd thing to see. When I checked outside there was no smoke, just heat waves coming out of the stack. But when I looked at the thermometer that sits in the center/top of the stove; it was reading almost 1,200 degrees!
Is this thing SUPPOSED to get that hot?
This stove is actually too big for the room, even given that it's a pretty good sized room with cathedral ceilings and two skylights; but I didn't buy it. It came with the house.
Anyway, as I said, it's a 2461 and it has a 6" flue that is straight all the way to it's termination point. No bends.
So I had a Chimney Sweep come in to clean my chimneys this past summer, and he told me the proper way to use the stove, in terms of the catalyst.
I had previously been burning it at around 500 degrees according to the thermometer that sits in the top; and I had never closed the catalyst. Heck, I wasn't sure I even HAD one. I thought that was a damper. Shows how much I knew, right?
Anyway, he said to let it come up to about 500 and then close the catalyst. He also said that it would double in temperature with the cat running. I figured he was exaggerating.
So about a month ago, I did just that. I had like... I don't know... three logs inside it I think?
So I closed the cat and I went about my business elsewhere in the house
I came back in about a half hour and noticed that the room was over 80 degrees! OK, this was just a cool day, being only down to the mid 50's, but still...
So I check out the stove and I notice that the glass is completely clean (which is unusual) and there don't appear to be any flames. Huh?
I get closer and it appears that the flames have completely lifted off of the wood and are dancing around the upper portion of the stove. On the inside of course, but it was still an odd thing to see. When I checked outside there was no smoke, just heat waves coming out of the stack. But when I looked at the thermometer that sits in the center/top of the stove; it was reading almost 1,200 degrees!
Is this thing SUPPOSED to get that hot?
