So after the fresh snow last week I found ash and soot in a 4' spot under the vent. It wasn't covered but a lot of it. The only thing I have done out of the ordinary was crank it up on 5 for a few hours to bring up the house temp after I was away for a few days. Normaly it's on 3 all the time. Anyone else have this? Maybe I just never saw it before (note it was two days before weekly cleaning)
Soot out the vent
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TimfromMA
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Its possible the increased air flow that happened when you cranked it up blew out some of the ash that had accumulated in your vent.
Bioburner
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Not to uncommon to get some black soot blown out. Venting get cruddy if you have done a fair amount of startups and cool starts seem to be the culprits of this, not good hard running.
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