Check the mating surfaces between the door gasket and the actual stove. Looks like the finish on that stove is worn off a bit. Wonder if it’s not getting a tight seal because of a bad gasket and maybe some gunk on the stove.
I think you're seeing a cause and affect situation here. The smoke coming outta the door is the affect you see because it has nowhere else to go. Why does it have nowhere else to go? I can open the doors of my stove wide open, with a fire going and smoke doesn't come out. Ain't no reason other than a plugged chimney for it to be coming outta the door seal. If anything that leaky door seal would make it hard to control the fire inside the box because you can't fully control the amount of air the fire is getting. If the chimney was clean the leak would go the other way.
There are stoves that are known for their smoke leaks, even with a clean chimney...no idea if this is one though...
I think those are mostly downdraft or top load or a combo of both. I'm no stove guy tho just commenting on the principles involved.
The one I have in mind is a front load cat stove...a popular one. But I hear ya...generally a stove under negative pressure doesn't leak "out"...but it does happen.
I guess I'll have to remember a "poorly designed stove" can cause it to happen too. I'll get smoke outta my doors if i just whip them open. Definitely not when the doors are closed tho. Ones gotta use some common sense on their own sometimes.
brenndatomu the way i read the original post theirs was leaking smoke from the hinge area while the doors were closed? Maybe if they could tell us what part of the burn its happening at would help. Or outside weather conditions. Or....... they ain't been on since Sunday. Wanna make a bet they ain't coming back. Lol
Bet it ain't a gasket thing. Poor drafting for 1reasn or another. Even in the worst conditions my Oslo 500 will never back smoke into the house. 15 years and never replaced a gasket.
I’ve had birds fly down the flue a handful of times, but never during burning season. Then again, some people’s stoves/furnaces aren’t burning all the time either.
It was during the summer months. A bird had gotten down the pipe (couple different times) and ended up waiting to be released from the wood stove. Another time, a guest asked what is that hanging from the window gasket inside the stove? It was a bat. Like I said, these incidents happened during the early summer months where there is still a chance of lighting the stove for a quick burn in the morning.
I forget about these too but I'm also faced with the thought of how the upper part of the chimney can rapidly cool, especially in a downward wind. I suspect this would happen more easily with brick chimneys if they were to have more terracotta around the openings. Not that the OP has this issue but usually when there's smoke in the room, I either think clogged by creosote or by cold air block keeping things from moving freely.
............we may never know. Maybe Nordic Splitter is only a Sunday poster? Well, we could find out today if that's the case!!!!!
