So this is what happens when the house is cold, a warm front is passing through, and the flames are slow to get rolling. Luckily (at 1 minute in the video) it flamed up and sent it all up the chimney and not into the house.
Oslo really wanted to smoke out the house...
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It happens, draft just needs to get established.
With my basement install, I have a downdraft in the chimney if the stove is allowed to go stone cold. When lighting in this event, I switch the shop vac into "blower" mode and shove the hose up the stove's air intake and let it run for a minute, to force a draft (door on the stove closed!). Then I'll remove the shop blower, and start the fire like normal. If it looks like the draft isn't going the right way still, and smoke is going to come backwards through the stove's intake, I'll turn the shop vac/blower back on again for a few seconds until it gets itself straightened out.
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With my basement install, I have a downdraft in the chimney if the stove is allowed to go stone cold. When lighting in this event, I switch the shop vac into "blower" mode and shove the hose up the stove's air intake and let it run for a minute, to force a draft (door on the stove closed!). Then I'll remove the shop blower, and start the fire like normal. If it looks like the draft isn't going the right way still, and smoke is going to come backwards through the stove's intake, I'll turn the shop vac/blower back on again for a few seconds until it gets itself straightened out.
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I knew it was going to be a sketchy start due to the weather and temps plus the stove was just thoroughly cleaned as I just replaced the baffle and had it all apart.
Not nearly as bad as the time I doing a bath remodel in the house and forgot about the box fan in the bathroom window that was exhausting air from the house. Wow! what a smoke show that was in the living room.
Not nearly as bad as the time I doing a bath remodel in the house and forgot about the box fan in the bathroom window that was exhausting air from the house. Wow! what a smoke show that was in the living room.
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