Hey, I have been running my Hearthstone II for 3 years now, and I have run into an issue. It is poofing at me on damp days, especially in the evening time.
It runs all day without a problem, but it seems that when I toss a log on for the evening snooze it takes about half an hour for it to get up to speed and stop poofing. If I run the damper open for a little bit then close it down, it will do it again.
I have a straight pipe up through the ceiling and into a crawl space then out the roof so all but 5 ft is inside.
I did clean the chimney at the begining of the season in(although I cleaned it at the end of last year, it is just compulsory to do it again) then in Nov, just ran the brush through cause I had some low temp burns, nothing major.
It looked pretty clean the other day (just a blackend edge, nothing thick accumulating.
Any ideas?
BTW, doesn't matter if it is oak, ash, willow (2 years seasoned) maple etc.
It runs all day without a problem, but it seems that when I toss a log on for the evening snooze it takes about half an hour for it to get up to speed and stop poofing. If I run the damper open for a little bit then close it down, it will do it again.
I have a straight pipe up through the ceiling and into a crawl space then out the roof so all but 5 ft is inside.
I did clean the chimney at the begining of the season in(although I cleaned it at the end of last year, it is just compulsory to do it again) then in Nov, just ran the brush through cause I had some low temp burns, nothing major.
It looked pretty clean the other day (just a blackend edge, nothing thick accumulating.
Any ideas?
BTW, doesn't matter if it is oak, ash, willow (2 years seasoned) maple etc.