Better Draft

[Big86inthestixx]

I have got a question for you. I just bought my house 1 year ago, with the wood furnace add on in it. I have owned wood add ons my whole life, mostly clayton, and they all drafted nice, i could open the door on the stove and load it with little or no smoke leaking out. All of those stoves only had a total of 90* in the exhaust pipe which were all 6 inch schedule 40 pipe, which worked awesome.
Now the new house with the DAKA stove in it has a 6 inch square clay chimney in it, and it has a total of 180* of exhaust bends in it. Which consists of 2-45* pipe stove pipe elbows, and the one 90* which is of course at the base of the chimney. So every time i open this stove, even with a window open, it puffs soo much smoke out it'll set the smoke alarms off. And it just keeps comming out, so i need to close the door between each log i put in.
Should i/would it be worth my time to rotate the stove and lift it so that there is only 90* worth of exhaust? Or is the 6" clay chimney too small?

P.S. This doesnt change very much at all when i clean the chimney either.Which I do about every 3-4 weeks just to be safe b/c of the poor venting/drafting.
Thanks for the help..

 

[laynes69]

How tall is the chimney? And 6" should be fine for the furnace. If that chimneys too short, you won't get proper draft. Also if the chimney has a cleanout at the base, make sure it is sealed properly, as well with the flue. I'm sure if everything else checks out, I would do like you are saying and rotate the furnace to give a better draft, with as few elbows as possible.

 

[Big86inthestixx]

The chimney itself pokes up 36" above my 18 foot peak, which is 21' and there is no clean out. Which is another thing that sucks, every 3-4 weeks when i clean it out i have to remove all the pipe from the stove to the chimney then sweep the chimney and reassemble it.
Sounds like the rotation is my best bet.

 

[olyman]

do you have a outside air intake??? you may be creating a vacuum inside the house---if your house is tight--and when you open the door--smoke kick back----been there--