I have a 6 year old Jotul Oslo which I bought new and has been an awesome stove. Recently I have been getting smoke in the house when loading. I have had tremendous draft in the past and never had this happen before. I hate the smell of smoke in the house!
I let the stove cool completely and removed the burn tubes and vermiculite plate and mineral wool and inspected the whole thing. It was all clean with just some minor fly ash. I vacuumed out ALL of the stove and the rear venting pipe that attaches to my liner. The liner is full stainless to the top of a masonry chimney 32 feet high. Again, in the past I had GREAT draft. Sometimes too much. I had the liner and stove cleaned by the same service I have been using in the past this fall and nothing stood out as unusual. I've burned about 4-5 cords so far this winter. My wood this year is dry. I cut it and stacked it all over the last 1-2 years. (I try to stay about 2 years ahead)
The stove burns fine once up to temp which I run at 450-550 depending on how cold it is outside. Nice secondaries, good heat, clean glass - everything seems perfect until I open up to load it. I know wind can impact this but, wind or no wind, I have the same issue.
I find it hard to believe but it is acting as if I have a restriction in the liner or maybe at the cap and need to have it cleaned again. Cleaning is a pain as my roof is really steep and the chimney is central to the house so you have to walk on the roof which I won't do. Am I missing anything?
I let the stove cool completely and removed the burn tubes and vermiculite plate and mineral wool and inspected the whole thing. It was all clean with just some minor fly ash. I vacuumed out ALL of the stove and the rear venting pipe that attaches to my liner. The liner is full stainless to the top of a masonry chimney 32 feet high. Again, in the past I had GREAT draft. Sometimes too much. I had the liner and stove cleaned by the same service I have been using in the past this fall and nothing stood out as unusual. I've burned about 4-5 cords so far this winter. My wood this year is dry. I cut it and stacked it all over the last 1-2 years. (I try to stay about 2 years ahead)
The stove burns fine once up to temp which I run at 450-550 depending on how cold it is outside. Nice secondaries, good heat, clean glass - everything seems perfect until I open up to load it. I know wind can impact this but, wind or no wind, I have the same issue.
I find it hard to believe but it is acting as if I have a restriction in the liner or maybe at the cap and need to have it cleaned again. Cleaning is a pain as my roof is really steep and the chimney is central to the house so you have to walk on the roof which I won't do. Am I missing anything?
