I'm embarrased to say I am on my third season of operating my Avalon Mission wood stove (love it !).... but I am still making operator errors that result in my stove puffing occasionally.
To those few here (if any) that don't know what a wood stove "puff" is......it is when you damper your stove all the way down or almost all the way, therefore starving it of much needed oxygen to burn, therefore resulting in smoke/gases building up within the stove........which results in your stove figuring out how to get just a little oxygen resulting in a "mini" explosion within your stove.
Creating a ball of fire in your stove and an immediate release of the smoke within your stove that will always find the weakest section of your stove or stove pipe and enter your home.
I am trying to figure out if using rutland cement on my stove collar and pipe will help push this gas/smoke on up my pipe.
My stove collar is the weak link in my pipe. Here is my problem. I want to be able to disconnect my pipe each season to clean it and not break this collar seal.
My pipe comes out of my stove and up about 2.5 feet to a 90 degree then about 3 feet to exit thru wall.
Any suggestions on how to remove this pipe configuration for seasonal cleaning and still keep the collar sealed with rutland ?
What started this was a 4 a.m. puff.......... after dampering because I loaded way too much wood in these hard to figure out "warm weather patterns" we are experiencing here in Tenn.
Thanks in advance.
Robbie
To those few here (if any) that don't know what a wood stove "puff" is......it is when you damper your stove all the way down or almost all the way, therefore starving it of much needed oxygen to burn, therefore resulting in smoke/gases building up within the stove........which results in your stove figuring out how to get just a little oxygen resulting in a "mini" explosion within your stove.
Creating a ball of fire in your stove and an immediate release of the smoke within your stove that will always find the weakest section of your stove or stove pipe and enter your home.
I am trying to figure out if using rutland cement on my stove collar and pipe will help push this gas/smoke on up my pipe.
My stove collar is the weak link in my pipe. Here is my problem. I want to be able to disconnect my pipe each season to clean it and not break this collar seal.
My pipe comes out of my stove and up about 2.5 feet to a 90 degree then about 3 feet to exit thru wall.
Any suggestions on how to remove this pipe configuration for seasonal cleaning and still keep the collar sealed with rutland ?
What started this was a 4 a.m. puff.......... after dampering because I loaded way too much wood in these hard to figure out "warm weather patterns" we are experiencing here in Tenn.
Thanks in advance.
Robbie
