Greetings from Norway!
We recently moved into an older home with one large wood oven/cooker, one small wood oven, and one fireplace with closing glass doors on one main chimney. The fireplace and smaller oven run great, no problems. But the larger cooking stove/oven in the kitchen smokes a lot, especially when the ash door is ajar, so much that we have to open the windows repeatedly to vent and lose all of our heat. We have taken apart and cleaned/vacuumed out the entire oven four times within the month we have lived here. But this helps only for a couple of days. The chimney pipe from the stove to the main chimney was also taken down and cleaned after the second stove cleaning. I’ve attached photos of the inside 4 days after a thorough cleaning. Additionally, a black liquid (creosote?) drips down the pipe and onto the stove top (definitely aroma anti-therapy). After cleaning the chimney pipe, the liquid coming out became less sticky and more water-like, but it seems to be getting thicker again as the days pass. We live in an old house with old windows. We have heated with wood ovens in previous homes without issue. The ovens and pipe installation came as is with this house (not installed by us), and the owner told us that they previously had difficulties with running the kitchen oven. The oven model is a La Nordica Rosa.
Any information or advice is greatly appreciated!
Here is what we have tried so far:
1- Three different woods (pine, alder, birch). We don’t yet have a tool to check the moisture content. We purchased the three from different neighbours when we moved here.
2- Closing the other fireplace and wood oven. Opening a window in the kitchen.
3- Heating another room with the other wood stove first to warm the main chimney.
4- Installed fan on top of chimney to pull the air up.
We recently moved into an older home with one large wood oven/cooker, one small wood oven, and one fireplace with closing glass doors on one main chimney. The fireplace and smaller oven run great, no problems. But the larger cooking stove/oven in the kitchen smokes a lot, especially when the ash door is ajar, so much that we have to open the windows repeatedly to vent and lose all of our heat. We have taken apart and cleaned/vacuumed out the entire oven four times within the month we have lived here. But this helps only for a couple of days. The chimney pipe from the stove to the main chimney was also taken down and cleaned after the second stove cleaning. I’ve attached photos of the inside 4 days after a thorough cleaning. Additionally, a black liquid (creosote?) drips down the pipe and onto the stove top (definitely aroma anti-therapy). After cleaning the chimney pipe, the liquid coming out became less sticky and more water-like, but it seems to be getting thicker again as the days pass. We live in an old house with old windows. We have heated with wood ovens in previous homes without issue. The ovens and pipe installation came as is with this house (not installed by us), and the owner told us that they previously had difficulties with running the kitchen oven. The oven model is a La Nordica Rosa.
Any information or advice is greatly appreciated!
Here is what we have tried so far:
1- Three different woods (pine, alder, birch). We don’t yet have a tool to check the moisture content. We purchased the three from different neighbours when we moved here.
2- Closing the other fireplace and wood oven. Opening a window in the kitchen.
3- Heating another room with the other wood stove first to warm the main chimney.
4- Installed fan on top of chimney to pull the air up.
