Well, tonight is the 2nd time had detectors go off. 1st was years ago when had burner a month or so, coals smoldering. Added fresh air intake for stove, no problems.
Started stove in AM, it is in basement. Did not feed it when I got home early at 5:00, normally do, but plenty warm inside from lots of sun today. Brought my boy upstairs to bed and thought I could get a hint of backdraft. Main floor alarm did not go off. His room did, above kitchen . Also laundry room and our master bed did too, although they above our garage, and weird thing, had tranny problems with work vehicle and had running for a few minutes with overhead garage door open trying to get it outside. It has steel ceiling with blown insulation between floor joyces, plywood floor on top with flooring.
Well, just ash and a few coals were smoldering, opened a couple basement windows to get draft, loaded stove and it took off. Opened all windows and doors. Took a bit n I think highest CO reading was about 80 ppm.
Kind of scary, but glad had alarms, and they are loud! Not sure what levels are too high, but....
Started stove in AM, it is in basement. Did not feed it when I got home early at 5:00, normally do, but plenty warm inside from lots of sun today. Brought my boy upstairs to bed and thought I could get a hint of backdraft. Main floor alarm did not go off. His room did, above kitchen . Also laundry room and our master bed did too, although they above our garage, and weird thing, had tranny problems with work vehicle and had running for a few minutes with overhead garage door open trying to get it outside. It has steel ceiling with blown insulation between floor joyces, plywood floor on top with flooring.
Well, just ash and a few coals were smoldering, opened a couple basement windows to get draft, loaded stove and it took off. Opened all windows and doors. Took a bit n I think highest CO reading was about 80 ppm.
Kind of scary, but glad had alarms, and they are loud! Not sure what levels are too high, but....