LOOSING ROOM

I'm in Knox county,Ohio going to try to make it dont know for sure yet

 

Yes, scavenger , a wood stove should heat your house. To do that it has to be sized correctly for the area it has to heat. The curling baffle in your stove sounds like it has been run a little too hot. Have you ever seen the stove glow orange? The problem with running a stove too hot is that parts will warp and eventually crack. Once that happens the stove becomes dangerous...

How big is the house? How well insulated? How well sealed?

Once we have seen the damage to your stove and we know how hot you are running it we can offer some advice.

I am going to guess it is part #4 that is warped?



KaptJaq

 

my house is 950 sq ft --better than well insulated --without a peep of draft that i detect and that is the piece that's curled down slightly when i look in and up--i've reached an amber glow but that radioactive orange eludes me to date--and hey walt did you decide to go?

 

The amber glow indicates that the iron is at or above 1,000 degrees farenhite. That is too hot for the stove. Most manufacturers recommend that the stove should stay under 750F, some even less.

The stove is rated for your size home, you should not have to push it so hard to keep the place comfortable. It is an "epa exempt" stove so it does not have the clean/long burning features of epa certified stoves.

I know the season is about over but next season you should consider running the stove a little cooler. You should get longer burn time and the house should stay comfortable. If not there is probably something else wrong.

If you get to one of the GTGs you might want to talk to the crew there about burning techniques. They might give you some good suggestions...

Last thing you might want to consider is upgrading to an EPA certified stove such as the Englander NC-30...

KaptJaq

 

gosh how long's a stove supposed to last--i never dreamed of having to replace it--grew up with a fireplace so there's my thinking pattern--my dad used to crumple up newpaper and send it up the chimney ablaze to clean the creosote out--we kids would run outside in the snow and watch the remnants drift down--i knew then that wasn't safe--i get on the roof with my chimney sweep brush and do the job myself--no top hat and tux--anyhow thanks for all the information-and i have to tell you i made up the amber thing thinking of a color not quite chernobyl-like

 

I visited chernobyl in 1992, I guess you could call some of the colors there amber!

 

the radiation clearly went to your head! what on earth possessed you to visit and did you see the abandoned amusement park? or is that what locals call the whole area? I'm intrigued...

 

I've been working on that reverse mohawk hairstyle for 61 years! Long story on the trip, I was part of a 12 person nuclear safety delegation that visited there. Do you mean this? Only view I got of the park ......

 

wow it was that close to the facility! I watched what I think was frontline on pbs about the accident and the revisiting and construction of the "dome" currently or recently completed--did your geyger counter go nuts? (how do you spell that?) ever watch Dr. Strangelove--one of my go to movies....

 

So you do watch some TV (from Wanted: ...... ) Funny story about the geiger counter, or "fancy pocket dosimeter" I was carrying. No, it never went "nuts" in the areas I toured, but you would not want to be there for too long ........ The "funny" story was that although I was probably the youngest, and maybe least experienced of the 12 member US team of "experts", I had the best dosimeter of the group. A salesman with Bicron Corp had loaned me their latest device, about the size of an old "pager" to take. Everyone else was carrying older technology dosimeters. Since mine was direct reading with alarming set-points the group put me at the front of the group everywhere we went. To the Ukranians and Russians we met at different facilities visited over a 2 week period, I was viewed as the leader of the group since I was "leading" us around. I got all the VIP treatment. We all knew I was just the canary in the cage as I was awarded some medallion/patch/pin the others didn't get. It was great!