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Wood burner reverse draw

qwerty · 2024-09-23T10:08:34Z

So, knowing nothing about wood burners, yesterday I had a practical in the reverse draw effect! It was a warm wet day and I was bored so thought I'd light the stove for some practice before winter sets in. It's a new stove that I've lit once before. On that attempt it did fill with smoke upon lighting, but then sorted itself out. Yesterday I lit it, it filled with smoke, started oozing smoke out of the stove with it's door closed and filled the house with smoke. I mistakenly opened the door to try and sort it making things much worse and setting fire alarms off!!! So, it's warm and raining again today, I've all my windows open to vent the house. Do I risk lightning the stove again????? Does lighting a couple of bits of newspaper to warm the flue and change the draw direction actually work? Also, the clean glass front if the stove was no longer see through and covered in sooty deposits, is this normal?

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Ambrose

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Re:firelighters. I keep all my oily rags etc from diy in a container that I pour oil into from pots of olives and sun dried tomatoes etc. The oily rags make great firelighters.

Normally through the (previous) year I'm able to forage enough firewood locally but this year I'm going to have to buy some for the first time in years 🙁

Posted : 26/09/2024 11:28 pm

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