Stove burning right sided...?

Can't figure out why the stove burns hot on the right side and almost smolders on the left. The window also gets dirty on the left. Tried different wood and laying sideways, opened and closed intake made not difference. When intake fully open all of it burns well but the left side is always lower.
Any ideas?

 

Betting your air intake is on the side that burns better. Quite normal with most stoves, once it gets hot enough it all Burns.

 

You could do the "dollar bill test" all around the door to see if there's a slightly different amount of gasket tightness.

 

Oddly enough the intake is on the left side. It only worried me a bit when i turn everything down, that side seems to die but by morning it's been reduced to the same ash and coals as the right. So i guess it's no big deal.

 

I did the test when we first used the stove it seemed tight all around. However, we moved it some since then maybe i should check it again.

 

When I leave the door on my stove cracked open (during a restart), the gap is on the right, but the burn is stronger on the left. It is due to the air "circulating" in my case.

 

I had a quadrafire 3100 that did the same thing. I relegated it to the fact that the incoming air cooled that side of the stove so it was always darker and burned a little less efficient on that side.

 

My first thought is you have wet wood and a leaking gasket .

 

The left side of my IS doesn't burn quite as hot as the right. That's just the way they are.

 

Same for my IS, although it all turns to ash eventually.

 

That makes sense, mine is opposite. Unfortunately it does it also with the door shut.

 

No that would be too easy. Wood is clean and dry and gasket has no leaks with dollar bill check.

 

Yeah, i guess that is really not that big a deal. Just finding out all these curious things.

 

To quote Bruce Hornsby...........
"That's just the way it is
Some things'll never change"

 

Design quirk of the stove?

 

If you were in the southern hemisphere I’d bet the left side would burn hotter. Maybe.

I just can’t imagine loading a stove with 2 sticks like that.

 

I would agree with Highbeam here, not quite a loading that I would base stove performance on. It would burn a lot more efficient if it was the same wood split into several pieces and alternating E/W and N/S (or 4 more same size pieces jammed in like sardines in a can).

 

I did that at the start of the season with some small Ash (kindling) sticks. Burns VERY well. 4 or 5 levels is good to get the stove warm and take out the chill. It's the equivalent of 2-3 small splits, but works much gooder.

 

Temps have been down into the low 20s overnight. 40s during the day. Not real cold but enough to get the draft going better.
You say to load the stove up. Here is what i found. I load the stove NS (wood too long for EW, need to cut some) with 3 fairly large splits of dry oak on a cedar coal bed wait until it gets burning then turn down. Stove temp around 450 - 500 or so.
If i use two larger pieces that works also. There isn't much room above for more. That leaves me with coals and a stove of around 200 - 250 in the morning after 8 - 9 hrs. House at 67 - 70. I tried to load smaller pieces and cross the top ones at an angle because they are a bit long and the effect is the same. The stove gets hotter initially but in the morning it's pretty similar only the coals are smaller. I seem to burn less wood with two larger pieces.
In the morning i load 2 splits of smaller cedar let them burn until the stove temp is at least at 350 and then add 1 gnarly big piece of cedar. That keeps it going at a nice temp for about 4 hrs around 450 at first and then slowly down to 300 or a little less until i put another big piece in.
Left side of the window is usually dirty by morning sometimes both sides. The cedar burn cleans most of it up during the morning.
No idea yet what that does to the chimney. Will clean it on the next warm day and see what falls out.
Would love if this works out. Will never run out of cedar while we don't have much pine.

 

Sounds like a pretty normal burn cycle. I've been putting less and less Pine in and more hardwoods as the temps get colder. The pine starts a bit faster and then the rest catches up. As your temps get even colder, try less Cedar and more Oak. You'll likely need the room for the Oak at some point for morning temps to be the same.