Posted by HappyJack on November 17, 2021 at 07:42:21 from (216.211.46.26):
In Reply to: The chimney is clean. posted by BarnyardEngineering on November 15, 2021 at 09:01:30:
BarnyardEngineering: I have been following this thread with keen interest as many have and would love to be of assistance if possible. In reading over all of the questions and your answers again, I believe that your issue is with the chimney since the only thing that seems to change is the conditions outside the home.
A couple more questions to assist if you don't mind.
Has the woodstove behaved this way since you started burning or did it develop as the weather got cooler? Has it gotten worse as the temperatures got lower over night?
From your description i gather you have a masonry chimney with a flexible stainless flue liner in it. Is that liner sealed top and bottom? Is the masonry chimney relatively air tight or does air freely infiltrate it?
I was concerned that you mentioned your father had to remove the chimney cap because of creosote build up: properly dried wood burning hot should not create creosote. The only times I have seen excessive creosote build up in my 20+ years as a rural firefighter was when people burned green wood too cold. The worst case was when a guy had a homemade stove and flue which included a water heater around the chimney in the attic space. He would shut the stove right down at night, the result was cooled combustion gases from a low fire being cooled even more by the water jacket on the chimney, causing creosote build up. I'm postulating that your chimney configuration is allowing the flue to cool too much at night causing poor draft; maybe enough to impact your combustion quality.
What species of wood are you burning and how long has it been seasoned? Likely not the issue since it burns well during the day but its a point of interest for me.
I don't know if you have already done it, but I'm a big proponent of reading the manual. I'm not sure which model stove you have, but I managed to find a pdf online for some of the Dutchwest stove models.
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