Posted: 12/5/2004 1:09:46 PM EDT
I am having trouble getting my wood stove to draft outside, smoke won't exit building. I installed it my basement and ran it out the window, using 6" black pipe, and up to about 3' above my ridge line. Any pipe that it on the flat is angled up toward roof, but for some reason it is not drafting. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
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Did you make sure there were no obstructions in the pipe before you assembled it? No shit, my dad and uncle replaced the stove pipe for the Franklin stove at the cabin and didn't remove some newspaper that had been shoved into the pipe. Of course they had been drinking Seagrams VO, and their fix was to shoot the stove pipe with a .22 until smoke came out. 
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make sure a window is cracked open to allow flow when starting the fire. My fireplace goes out without having 1/4" crack when I start it. Also, some houses around here have pipes up to 6' above the ridge line. I am not sure if it is for draft, or just to get the smoke higher. Not all of the houses around have it, just some (all from the same builder). I also burn newspaper to start the fire, along with kindling. It burns fast and hot and gets the draft going. 
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Thanks the newpaper worked! I guess I didn't let it get hot enough before. There is 16' of vertical pipe. Yes I know its a bad choice, but we live in a two bedroom with a basement, and two kids, so we let the kids have the bedrooms upstairs and we got the basement. After 4yrs of no heat in the basement we bought a wood stove. We heat the upstairs with wood and have hot water heat, but with the wood stove upstairs the boiler doesn't run much.
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