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

My earth stove you could hear it and feel it's virbation.
It would flutter the air inlet valve as well.

Doesn't do it with the blaze king.

 

I hear the air through the secondary tubes when it is mostly closed down.

 

I wouldn't put a damper unless it was needed just because I'd likely hit it with a brush cleaning. With my luck I'd knock it out of adjustment. and the blade would no longer line up with the handle. I wouldn't know I did it and I'd be pulling my hair out trying to figure out the new draft weirdness.

 

Thanks for the input everyone. I am gonna hold off on the damper unless it becomes a reoccurring issue. I don't think my draft is crazy strong especially considering it is an exterior chimney. I'll continue monitoring for now.

 

After a while you and the stove will bond like old friends. I wouldn't be too concerned with any sound unless you have issues controlling it. Also don't try and cool a overfired stove, you can warp and crack things. Shut it down and make sure it shuts down and leave it naturally cool down.

 

What's the story on the hairy spot, Marvin? If you don't my asking, of course. What stove, how hot did it get?

 

No problem with you asking....I took the stove pipe apart last night and checked it. Today I climbed up on the roof to check the liner. Everything looks good. Of course I checked the inside of the stove yesterday morning before I lit it up again before work. As far as I can tell it handled the heat fine.

I think I just wasnt fast enough cutting the air back on it. It got up to a about 825ish this evening on me. I'm experimenting to see how quick I gotta cut the air so I think I need to be a bit quicker with it yet.

I have an Osburn 2200.

 

You gotta be talking chimney temp, is your thermometer a magnet type or a probe?

 

I usually pull up a milk crate and sit and watch the burn get going and don't leave until I have the input air down to where it usually likes to be .
In the morning sometimes I'll light the fire before my coffee and go back to the stove immediately after my first sip to lower the input air.
Otherwise if I really need to leave before the air is set I use the clock timer on my phone as a reminder to go back.
It's too easy to lose track of time.

 

I have a probe thermometer in double wall stove pipe. That was stove top temp though that got up that high. Although it is a guess because my thermometer only goes to 700*. I estimated where the 800* mark would be if it had one.

 

This is what I've started doing. Although I'm using a craftsman garage seat with wheels instead of a milk crate

 

Kitchen timer, set for 10 min after you light it off, good reminder for a checkin

 

Thanks for sharing the details, Marvin. I'm new to the indoor burning thing, so every little nugget of knowledge I can grab helps! Hottest we've gotten the IS yet is 600 stovetop temp, wife got a little nervous, we have been cruising between 350-500 mostly in this shoulder season. Come the real winter temps, I think 600 will be the new cruising temp. I think we both would have puckered up a bit at 825!