treeworld1203

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Ok as promised, sorry for the delay. Here is the flue. It sticks up above the roof line, I was wondering if the wind blowing across the top of it would prevent smoke from escaping and then force it back down the flue? If that was the case, I was wondering about fitting one of those spinning things to the top, to help pull more draw up...

I have often pondered this myself Mik

Splendid idea, thanks. On that note, I will pop a couple of pics of flue up today on here.

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Good point, I hadn't thought of that! Do you (or others) sweep your own flues then?! I am intruiged!

Whilst removing the baffle plates this morning, I looked up the flue and saw this flaky deposit (see pic). Is this enough to mess up flue performance?! Last swept summer 2023. Been burning most days since October.

It is a fairly wide stove, it's the "Stovax County 5 WIDE" model. The smoke isn't being dragged into the room by the door opening, we crack open the door catch first then pause a moment then gently open door not too fast. The smoke starts either immediate coming into room, or sometimes after a second or two. Needless to say we keep the door open for as little time as possible, only sufficient to place the new log(s) in.

I have checked this morning, using the manual. Both baffle plates are correctly fitted. I removed them, there was a small amount of ash sitting on them which i hoovered off and then replaced the baffles as per the manual 👍

Thanks, I will get pictures on here very shortly

Our flue has got a bit of coarse mesh at the top with the "lid" above that. When the chimney sweep comes, his wife stands outside until she can see the brush right up to the "lid". So I assume the problem we descibe we wouldn't have.

Here is a picture showing a typical burn. This is how we are running it daily. Temperature on the flue reading around 200 C, the airwash on max, the primary air on max and the secondary air control underneath the stove pushed as far away as possible (remains open at 15%). We had the secondary air control wide open until recently. The problem doesn't seem to have changed regardless of where the secondary air control is. If we close down the primary air control (like the manual says) then we start to lose temperature. I will try and get a video next of loading it, showing our technique with the smoke coming out. a

Degrees C ? The flue temperature gauge we have says that anything above 250 C is "too hot" ...

When I get a minute between Christmas and new year, I will pop some pics on here of the stove and flue set up. In the meantime, merry Christmas!

Pretty much yes. The lounge door is always open to a large hall and open plan kitchen/diner. There is also a vent in the exterior wall of the lounge, presumably left over from the gas fire that was there previously. We can feel a draught through it, so theres plenty of air coming in.