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Homeowners often wonder what causes a fire or stove smoke during operation. If you experience problems smoke from your fireplace, here’s a checklist for what to look out you.

Note: This checklist is not exhaustive, but should you troubleshooting the most common causes of your furnace smoke in your home. It may be that the case is not one single problem, but rather a combination of a number of different things.

Chimney Performance:

To ensure the chimney is in a position to design appropriate for the proper operation of your stove, the chimney system which are connected to the furnace, the following requirements should be confirmed:

The flue terminal should be sealed continuously at the connection point with all the joints in order to prevent possible leakage.

 

There are three common flue connector configurations that are used to have to install fireplace:

 

Ventilation:

Due to the current building codes and construction standards, modern houses are more airtight than older homes especially on modern draft proofing and the installation of double glazed windows. As a stove is an air through the device, it is a continuous airflow into the room in which it is installed so as to replenish the air are used and need to be vented through the chimney system. This can be achieved fit a large enough air vent (consult with manufacturers installation instructions) from the area outside the building. If the stove in a room that also air through the device (eg, range hood, clothes dryer is installed, etc.), the permanent air vent should be sufficiently sized to allow for air requirements for the second device as well.

A simple test to check whether a chimney draft is hampered by lack of ventilation to open a window and when it stops smoking is a good indication that there is not enough air to support combustion and a steady breeze through the chimney supply chimney /.

Note: This is just a short term solution and should lead the way to be addressed.

Fuel / Stove Usage:

All our stoves have been tested and evaluated by a good quality of coal as a fuel standard. Burning the same amount of peat and wood instead of coal will be achieved in a lower heat output result. The following may affect stove performance and result in possible smoking subjects:

 

Down Draft:

Smoking questions can experience directly down draft problems with the chimney system be returned. Downdraft carburetor questions are the following usually causes:

If you experience problems downdraft stove before the installation or later, a suitable anti-downdraft hood should be installed. In the case of the hood not prove sufficient, it may be necessary to extend the chimney so that all obstacles are cleared.

Note: When do smoking or downwind problems with your fireplace, installing a furnace does not clarify the situation.