Is it normal to "hear" your wood stove drafting???

I noticed as the outside temps get lower and I fire up the wood stove I can "hear" it pulling air through the stove pipe and up the flue. It is by no means a roar. It just sounds like when it is windy out and you can hear a dull, steady wind outside your house. Almost like listening to a seashell. It gets quieter as I cut the air and disappears when I close it down to roughly 10-15%.

While I may have a few pieces of cherry (what I've been burning) that are not quite under 20% MC, the majority of them are below 20%. The flue temp and stove pipe temp do not drop below the "good" range unless I let it burn out.

I've heard of chimney fires making a "roaring" sound. Should I be concerned or am I just showing how green I am at this?

 

When's the last time you cleaned you chimney? If you've done it before the start of this burn season there's no way you're having a chimney fire this soon in. I'd check all the connections of my flue from the cap on down. I think you'll find what's making the noise by doing this.

 

We have a stove whisperer.

you can make ducts and tubes generate a noise with wind velocity, air rushing through an orifice will generate an ultrasonic noise that can sound like a rushing or low level roar. So yeah, it's possible to hear the wind going through the passageways in a stove..
If you could get a passageway resonating you might make a tone .

 

I just installed a ss liner this summer so I would hope it's not gummed up already

 

I would guess it is this. I think there is a pretty good breeze going outside. I hope that would be what it is anyway.

 

I can hear mine when the wind is blowing right...

 

I'm sure this has to be what is going on. I am just overly cautious about everything since I'm learning this stove

 

Did you put a damper in the pipe between the stove and flue? If you have a really strong draft you would benefit from the damper.

 

Mine will sound like a freight train when first lit with a cold flue and wide open but never heard anything after it is up to temp. I’m also half deaf so it could be.

 

My stove has a whistle sound coming from (what I believe) is the secondary air intake holes when it's very windy. No rumble/roar oranything else though.

 

No I left it out. I had one in the old stove pipe but figured my draft wasn't that strong. Maybe I'll have to put it back in....

 

Maybe that's it. I noticed it after I first lit it this evening.

 

When ever I close mine down and get the secondarys going I get a little bit of a growling sound. No big deal but it does tell me when I have the air intake cranked down to a certain level.

 

I heard mine last night. It told me it was time for a refill.

 

I may have to put the damper in. We just went nuclear here. I'm starting to get it cooled back down but it was a little hairy for a bit. I had the air cut off to about 25% and walked away for too long apparently

 

I'm pretty sure my probe thermometer is ruined. I had the door wide open trying to cool the stove top after I closed off the air and got the flue temp down

 

Have you confirmed the air lever control plate is riding flush on its mating surface? I had that problem on my stove, and it would breathe like crazy.

 

I have not but it seems to have pretty good control of the air.......other than user error a little bit ago not shutting it down soon enough.