tmschuller
ArboristSite Lurker
Just found the site and trying to navigate around. I moved into a home with a 10 year old heatmore 200.. been trying to figure things out and so far been pretty easy. But for the last few days I cant keep a fire in it for anything . I thought I had some wet wood and had creosote building up... but I have smoke pouring out around the door and even at the auger clean out is smoking.. I cleaned the fan out, pulled it off and blew out/used a putty knife and have much better air flow. I have never had this problem and have been sucessful figuring stuff out over the last year.. but now??
I tried to get up to the top of the flue but I need a different ladder.. so tonight I am going to run a metal fish tape up threw and pull something back to check to see if its restricted.. It looks like it is but I just want to make sure... when I leave the door open it rains black water down in .. not alot but enough to make me nervous about a leak up there.. We just had 2 inches of rain and I think it made its way down in the flue... So any thoughts?? Not trying to write a book here but there was alot of info....Thanks. TIM
I tried to get up to the top of the flue but I need a different ladder.. so tonight I am going to run a metal fish tape up threw and pull something back to check to see if its restricted.. It looks like it is but I just want to make sure... when I leave the door open it rains black water down in .. not alot but enough to make me nervous about a leak up there.. We just had 2 inches of rain and I think it made its way down in the flue... So any thoughts?? Not trying to write a book here but there was alot of info....Thanks. TIM