The blowers run all day and the only damper I have open is the ash door one only about a half turn 18 degrees outside almost 80 inside dont know what to do next
Basically you need to experiment, during the day I barely have a couple small logs in it, or two or three pieces of slab. Once the house is at temp the ash door damper gets closed to a quarter turn or less and I check it on every 2 - 3 hours, usually load it when the fuel is down to handful of coals left, rinse and repeat.
I can tell how much I need to open my ash door damper, by the temp outside, wind, wood i am burning (type and size) I can also determine if I need to open the ash damper more, by touching the duct work just above the furnace, feeling how warm front and back are, also hovering my hand over the metal above the feed door.
As for blowers constantly running, realize in my experience the hotblast is like this. There have been times, the blowers in my unit have ran non-stop for 5 - 6 hours, this includes me feeding the unit and the house staying around 72F. It depends on how big a fire you have, how old the house is, window etc multiple factors. A lot of people think if the blowers are always running, then the house is going to get ultra hot. I've stood there for 45 minutes with my hand on the duct work, with the temp of the air being pushed only varying a few degrees here and there and it cool enough that it keeps air flowing in the house, but the house at a constant temp.
There have also been times, with really hot fires that they've ran for a couple hours and the house has gotten to 85F because of it. You have to experiment, I recommend if you are home, build smaller fires, you'll tend it more, but you'll also have more control.
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