chemical smell from stove

Have you changed the gaskets?
They may have captured/retained the smell, and stink in subsequent firings.

Just a thought.

 

I would keep scraping down the inside of the stove, clean out and vacuum the ashes. The smell should diminish, you may have to clean it a few times.

 

Get a shallow tray that will fit in your stove.

Cover the tray with an amount of baking soda, and put it in the stove for asure long as you want to leave it there. Baking soda absorbs scents. Maybe, it'll absorb the source of your odor.

If not, then hope the odor will dissipate after a few more fires.

***NOTE Remove the tray and baking soda, before another fire.

 

We used baking soda and charcoal briquettes when we had "the freezer incident".


I think the briquettes did more good than the baking soda, but either way, it worked.

 

I don't understand how something on the inside of the firebox is causing a smell in the house, I mean maybe an occasional whiff but it should be exhausting out the stack.

 

I would let the stove cool, and then completely take it apart and vacuum it out making sure you get underneath the baffles and air inlets. Could be a piece of brick in there that cracked off. On the other hand (I have four fingers and a thumb) but seriously I complete break down my stoves every year and vacuum them out, reseat the glass and make them look like new. Been heating with wood for over 30 years and the only time the stove smells is with new pipe or when I put stove black on it to make it look new. Overfiring stinks too but that is not a chemical smell.

 

I have found that oak can have a funky chemical, almost Lysol like smell. Especially when it is almost burnt out. I burn a lot of oak and can get an occasional chemical whiff when adding wood.

Go find some cherry or a bundle of overpriced birch at the grocery store. Burn that and see how it smells. Cherry smells about the best. If you don’t get the nasty stench then it might be the oak.