How to Avoid Wood Stove Smoke Indoors | Regency

Sometimes when you first startup your stove smoke will enter your home. Stoves are designed to avoid this but Cold dense air falls into your firebox pushing smoke into the room - to avoid smoke entering your home lengthen your startup time & warm your stove up slowly.

[breadtoasted]

Glad I’m not the only one with the same issue’s 😂 The smoke makes everything smell etc. not to mention the damage to my breathing

[mred]

F2450 stove. I am at wits end with this thing. I have tried every recommendation so far to no avail. Puffs smoke into house no matter what EVERY TIME no matter what the stove temp is. .On initial startup I figured out i need to heat up the firebox with torch to get a updraft established then hit the kindling with it with the door open only one inch and then leave the door cracked until fire is totally established.All good...Then when it's time to add logs the fun begins The only lowest emission back into house is when there are only coals, no logs actually flaming. I tried sliding one of the top baffles to the front to let some of the smoke to go out the back, what a mistake, the stovepipe got so hot it smelled the house out with burnt paint that made us all sick I tried installing outside fresh air vent thinking negative air pressure in house (too tight) NOPE, fired up stove and now even on minimum draft set, stove acted like wide open throttle and soared to 700 on half fill, it really likes cold fresh O2!!, good thing I put a damper in that fresh air vent, closed it almost all the way before the fire calmed down, Stack is 6" double wall pipe and double wall insulated chimney, 16 total feet. Think I made a bad choice with this disaster. What the hell is wrong with this thing Regency, ?? Bad Design because way to many complaints for the same issue. Anybody want it? it's brand new has blower and legs. And yes I have tried turning off the blower and cracking the door SLOWLY to load it NOPE smoke comes in my face as soon as door is opened just enough to put a log in, UNREAL, I am sick of opening the windows and turning on the bath/kitchen vents to air out the house every stinking time that door is opened juet a quarter way. Total BS, this is a stove for a detached and very airy garage, Not a home. I'm open to any help with this problem b4 it goes into the pond.

[marniegodmaire]

So explain why when the stove is hot it blows smoke back into the house regardless even opening damper waiting and opening door slowly.. we've had this wood stove for 4 years and its been a problem ever since we got it..

[blackout]

If you have a bathroom fan going or a radon exhast fan it will create negative houshold pressure and suck air and smoke down the chimney and into your home.

[elsonck]

I have a strong downdraft from my lengthy chimney pipe into my woodstove. Even though I try to light it at the back of the stove below the uptake to get the airflow moving up, it often still "backsmokes"on me.

What I want to know is how to get the smoke out of the house once it has flooded out of the woodstove. It takes forever to clear the air even with an open door and windows. Anybody?

[darrellsaturnbigfoot]

I own a regency for 20 years and I discovered this. I simply slide the fire brick on top to expose the chimney. I then use a small handheld torch and blow this high heat directly into the opening of the chimney for 10-15 seconds. Then slide the top fire brick back in place and and immediately light the kindling. Works evertime 👍👍👍 even when it’s -30 celcius.

[lgnelson]

My Regency stove, does not draft well enough to build a fire without my house filling w smoke, wished I had bought something else.

[johnbutler]

Fill a tuna can with rubbing alcohol place in middle of stove light with tissue. This will heat up your stove pipe
It will also get your kindlin going. No smoke.

[Kriss_L]

That was useless. Two different woodstove shops, and a Regency rep, have looked at my woodstove and said nothing is wrong. Then why is smoke and flame sucked out if I open the door, and I have had smoke pour out of every side of the stove, and the box in the ceiling that the chimney goes through. And that's with the doors and windows open.

And cold air blasts out of the slot for the damper control, I'm assuming fed from the fresh air feed coming in from the crawl space. They all said that was normal, too.