kielbasa
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It usually ends up getting so hot in my home, that I let my BJ90 wood furnce just fizzle out thru the night. Woke up to terrible smoke smell, but I knew the fire was out.
Backdrafting thru the chimney and the smell was blowing into the house from the wood furnace vets, etc. I quickly lit a fire to make a draft in the chimney and quit blowing back into house. I'ts been about 4 weeks now that I finished the install of the furnace and chimney, but it's never done this before. At first I thought it was a wierd wind direction or something, but after going outside, it was a typical west wind and about 1 degF ambient - nothing out of the ordinary.
It's an outside chimney (typically last choice, but it was my ONLY choice), I assume the outside stack temp dropped low enough to cause this, but i usually let the fire burnout by evening and sit all night cold. I'm thinking of installing some type of cut off plate to prevent the smoke smell coming back in, or do they make damper that has a nice tight fit that I could install into my smoke pipe? It's currently equipped with just a baro damper in the smoke pipe, no butterfly damper - Thanks for any input! I can't stand the inside of my house smelling like a smoked out campfire.
Backdrafting thru the chimney and the smell was blowing into the house from the wood furnace vets, etc. I quickly lit a fire to make a draft in the chimney and quit blowing back into house. I'ts been about 4 weeks now that I finished the install of the furnace and chimney, but it's never done this before. At first I thought it was a wierd wind direction or something, but after going outside, it was a typical west wind and about 1 degF ambient - nothing out of the ordinary.
It's an outside chimney (typically last choice, but it was my ONLY choice), I assume the outside stack temp dropped low enough to cause this, but i usually let the fire burnout by evening and sit all night cold. I'm thinking of installing some type of cut off plate to prevent the smoke smell coming back in, or do they make damper that has a nice tight fit that I could install into my smoke pipe? It's currently equipped with just a baro damper in the smoke pipe, no butterfly damper - Thanks for any input! I can't stand the inside of my house smelling like a smoked out campfire.
I know it can be a serious situation but it sure is funny after the fact. He would talk about waking up to the house full of smoke and running through the living room with smoldering logs chucking them out the front door. He would then have to open all the windows and doors to let it air out, all the while standing at the front door pissed off and cold in his Carrharts at 4:30 in the morning. Heating with wood can be a tough life.:censored:
