WOOD STOVE DRAFT CONTROL KNOB MANUAL

WOOD STOVE DRAFT CONTROL KNOB MANUAL

The owners manual says that the stovepipe should be as short and straight as possible, and that the larger the number of elbows the greater the chance for draft resistance. ( I can START the fire.but following the owners manual can NOT keep it going without the glass door open or the ash grate open) Yet they also say if you over fire that the warrenty is void.īulletin #54 is about low heat output from woodstoves.īulletin #57 is about difficult to start fires. The manual for the phoenix doesn't exactly say that.however it says that the tempature can read as high as 500 on a hot burn! #21 which has the surface temp for all thier stoves and the Phoenix is 350-375 at high. Jim at Hearthstone emailed me three technical bulletins. I told that person that the furnace tech uses one all the time! They aren't going to, as one person there never even heard of a draft test.

Hearthstone won't comment until the dealer does this draft test. I asked the dealer about the chimney height, and they said that this was ok. I have been building small hot fires with little splits of wood to exhaust the cold air from the chimney so that there would be as much draft as I could get. I called the dealer and they told me to open the ash grate and the ash door as they felt this was a design flaw in the hearthstone line of stoves. I did call Hearthstone and spoke to Jim, who told me to call the dealer and ask for them to do a draft test. We live in the pocono's of pa and the temps until today have been unseasonably warm most seems to be oak, there is some birch, some apple or cherry, and some maple. Ps: my father burned wood the entire time I was growing up so I do know what seasoned wood looks and sounds like.this stuff is seasoned. Thank you so very much, I really appreciate you folks taking the time to help me I am worried about burning this stove with the ash grate opened but I do have to say that it finally got it up to 375 center stone surface temp. The chimney outside is a double solid insulated pipe with a small cap and a spark screen, I can't get on the roof to get a picture of it.įrom my bill of sale for the chimney, the outside sections are 48 inches and 24 inches however I do know that part of one of those sections goes through the cathedral box. ( this was the only place we had enough floor support and wall space without being in front of a window) Please excuse the mess in my studio as the chimney installer was not totally finished.Īs you can see there are two 45 degree angles in the pipe, because there is a steel I beam straight about the stove. The chimney is a total of 12 feet, and it is 6 inch pipe, I am attaching a picture of the installed stove ( just after they installed it) Ps: I have been looking online and found one refrence to making the chimney taller.but the company said that the dealer needs to do a draft test on the chimney.and the dealers answer was open the ash grate and that there isn't enough combustion air.they feel it is a design flaw on hearthstone's part.only one review here had that problem but didn't say what they did about it Our total chimeny is 12 from back of stove to bottom of cap, straight up through the roofītw, with the ash grate opened and the primary air control partly closed I managed to get the stove to center stone surface tempeture 375, as per my stove thermometerīut I am afraid to do this on a regular basis as the ash pan is sort of thin metal not cast iron If you had any of these problems and figured a way around them would you be so kind as to let me know? I also could not close the glass door until I did open the ash grate as then the fire would go out even though the primary air control was wide open! I was wondering if any of the other owners of this stove had this problem? The owners manual specifically says not to do this. My dealer advised me to open the ash grate in addition to the primary air control. I have a technical bulletin that states that the phoenix hot burn temp is 350-375. let alone up to the hot burn temp that the manual stated of 400 degrees. I just bought a hearthstone phoenix stove, I had a lot of trouble getting it to burn over 200 degrees. I am new here and I hope you all can help me

Wood stove draft control knob