Q on VC Vigilant "smoky"

[Horvik]

Hi;

I have been running wood in my Vigilant and seems to work fine, in secondary burn also.

My thing is I seem to get a certain amount of wood smoke in the house, not anything you can see or obnoxious, just the smoke you can pick up with your nose.No smoke is visible when running the sotve. So do I need gaskets or what would you suggest?

Tanks

 

[claydogg84]

Are you getting smoke when you burn with the doors shut, or just when you're opening them? You shouldn't smell smoke at all so I'm going to guess you have a draft issue.

 

[Horvik]

claydogg84;

I am smelling some smoke running with the doors shut . I was thinking maybe the top gasket as it was loose in the groove and I had to put it back in.

 

[claydogg84]

It's possible with the damper shut that you could be getting smoke from the stove, but usually as long as there is a good draft you'll be sucking air in, rather than pushing back into the room.