We have burning with our phoenix for about 2 weeks now. It has been doing a great job and making our house (2025 sqft) a little too warm (we are getting naked). We are in a fairly windy location and later in the night we saw sustained winds around 40 mph and gusts in the 60+ range. Our wind comes mainly from the West. My stove pipe (double wall) is 16' tall and my chimney (triple wall) is around 12'. It does have 2 45's with about 22"s in between them. I have a standard cap on it. My roof pitch is 10/12 with the pipe around 10' from the Western edge.
Last night, I loaded it up and let it burn for a while then turned down the air. My wood is mixed good and semi-good. I have been doing this nightly. We have no problem keeping good burn temps of 350-550. Last night my wife woke me up and said the house is smokey. The smoke and CO detectors did not go off. We have only seen smoke once before and that was at start up, yesterday. I open up the air controls and some windows. The fire started going good again, but I was unsure so I stayed on the coach until the wood was burned up.
Is this something I should be worried about? Should I get a wind proof cap? Should I just not burn on windy days (or let me fire burn hard and go out when it gets windy)? I have hydronic heat as a back up and can heat my house for cheap that way on windy days.
Thanks,
Michael
Last night, I loaded it up and let it burn for a while then turned down the air. My wood is mixed good and semi-good. I have been doing this nightly. We have no problem keeping good burn temps of 350-550. Last night my wife woke me up and said the house is smokey. The smoke and CO detectors did not go off. We have only seen smoke once before and that was at start up, yesterday. I open up the air controls and some windows. The fire started going good again, but I was unsure so I stayed on the coach until the wood was burned up.
Is this something I should be worried about? Should I get a wind proof cap? Should I just not burn on windy days (or let me fire burn hard and go out when it gets windy)? I have hydronic heat as a back up and can heat my house for cheap that way on windy days.
Thanks,
Michael