Stove Pipe Questions

[ajreid]

Is it normal to open the stove door on reloads with a pretty strong draft and hear the sound of possibly creosote flakes falling down the stove pipe and hitting the ceramic fiber board? I can tap the single wall pipe and hear little. Earlier in the year I was burning some wood that was around 22%MC. I am into my good dry wood now oak at 14%MC. I'm not sure if I was choking the stove down too much earlier in the year. I did have a few nights of smoked doors on the NC-30 trying to learn the stove. Its been in operation a little over a month now.
Is it normal for the the pipe to do a little self cleaning?
I have about 6' of single wall pipe running into 9' class A through the roof.

 

[soupy1957]

Nope, I can't say that I've heard falling material in my stove pipe. But that's not to say I wouldn't.

What interests me most, here, is the change of diameter to your pipes! As far as "I" know (but what do "I" know), I figure my piping is Class 6, six inch Ø piping all the way up to the cap. Am I full of crap??????

-Soupy1957

 

[oldspark]

Is it normal to open the stove door on reloads with a pretty strong draft and hear the sound of possibly creosote flakes falling down the stove pipe and hitting the ceramic fiber board? I can tap the single wall pipe and hear little. Earlier in the year I was burning some wood that was around 22%MC. I am into my good dry wood now oak at 14%MC. I'm not sure if I was choking the stove down too much earlier in the year. I did have a few nights of smoked doors on the NC-30 trying to learn the stove. Its been in operation a little over a month now.
Is it normal for the the pipe to do a little self cleaning?
I have about 6' of single wall pipe running into 9' class A through the roof.

I knew a guy once that started a chimney fire by tapping on the stove pipe knocking creosote down, not good.

 

[ajreid]

The stove pipe is 6"all the way to the cap. Mabe I had better not touch the pipe and get this thing cleaned.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

ajreid, all new wood burners are advised to at least check their chimneys monthly their first 2 years of burning wood. If you can't do the cleaning, then perhaps it would be a good idea to at least have it inspected by a sweep.