mystery smoke!!

[ejevans22]

I packed the stove on top of two half way gone spits that were burning pretty good...I pulled the draft all the way out like i usually do to get it going before damperin down... went down to the basement to wash out some roller pans full of paint...then ten minutes later my wife is calling me to come up stairs " there is smoke everywhere and it stinks !" she said. low and behold there was smoke everywhere and it smelled terrible (stunk). kind of like plastic burning. I couldn't tell where the smoke was coming from. It smelled like it smelled when i was having break in fires. I have 6'' snap lock stove pipe and I think the smoke and the smell might be coming from the pipe but i'm not sure.That snap lock pipe scares me. I keep thinking its going to unsnap one of these days. one of theres days i'll change it to welded. I have been burning since october and have been getting it really hot and this has never happened before.
any ideas as to what this smoke and smell was?
thanks

p.s the smoke only lasted for about ten minutes. As soon as i saw the smoke i dampered the draft all the way done, opened some windows and within minutes the smoke was gone.

 

[Jimbob]

Sounds like you may have "overfired" her a bit. You heated up some paint that has never been that hot before, I'm thinking.
Is the stove and pipe fairly new?

 

[ejevans22]

yea this is our first season us it and the stove and pipe are brand new.

 

[begreen]

Sounds like this may have been the first time it actually got hot enough to start baking in. If so, do a couple more fires at this temp and it will stop happening.

 

[Shari]

Just another thought: Did you add any insulation anywhere around your stove install? If yes, what kind of insulation was it?

 

[xjcamaro89]

I get that smell sometimes from my stove, but not the smoke. Is it sort of like a sweet smell? I jsut started using my stove (brand new) in the fall and you can see on the side of the stove where the paint has burned in and where it hasnt burned in as much as the rest. When the stove gets really hot i get that smell for a couple minutes, then it goes away. I chaulk it up to paint burning in, in areas that dont get really hot unless it get the fire going really hot.