Ramifications of burning with door open?

Backwoods Savage · Feb 8, 2018

TurboDiesel said: ↑

I tried this one time! Turns out what I thought was ok was not a good idea at all.
So, like you, I was sitting in the basement, waiting for the coals to burn down. I had the door open and stirred the ashes and coals around and thought, hmmm, that feels nice...And it seemed pretty harmless...So I left the door open and sat back down and went back to playing on the laptop, 8' from the stove. Some time went by, maybe 20-30 minutes...When I hear this beeping...
Whats that?... Not a sound I'm used to hearing...not a smoke alarm...not a kitchen timer...
So I go up to investigate and see a red flashing light on the kitchen table...whats that?...turn the light on...it's Mrs. TD's personal CO detector. All the techs and maintenance are required to wear them on their belt at work...I didn't think much of it at first, but it wouldn't stop(and the wife and Ruger were already asleep). So I went over to a window in the kitchen and cracked the window and held it up to the window in the draft and it only took a few seconds to stop. So I carried it back to the kitchen table and sat it back where it was. Seconds later it started again, so I went back to the window. Few seconds later it stopped and I closed the window but left it on the counter by the window, where the fresh air was still lingering. Started back down to the basement, and it went off again. This was now minutes after I closed the stove door and went to investigate.

There's a reason the manufacturer puts warnings in the manual!
And anyone that says otherwise is wrong

the CO detector looks like this
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Any time she stands near the back of their service truck or my atv it will go off.
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Great post Tim.

Suburban wood snob · Feb 17, 2018

Page 56 of the Drolet manual covers burning with the optional screen in place.

Now, I'm not doubting you had a CO issue, but the CO should be hot, and should go up the chimney, not out the door...

TurboDiesel · Feb 17, 2018

Suburban wood snob said: ↑

Page 56 of the Drolet manual covers burning with the optional screen in place.
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Is the OP running a Buck FS21 or a Drolet??

Page 23 of the Buck manual says
NOTE: THE FUELING DOOR MUST REMAIN CLOSED DURING OPERATION.

Suburban wood snob · Feb 17, 2018

Did I miss something?

TurboDiesel · Feb 17, 2018

Now I'm confused . I thought Roger was running a Buck stove

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