Question

How Can I stop my wood stove from blowing smoke inside my house?

This is my first year burning wood for heating my home and so far everything has been going good and my house has been staying warm.

However today the wind is blowing around 45 MPH and after I threw some more wood onto the hot coals and got it going smoke started blowing back through the wood stove and getting into my house.

How can I stop the wind from getting into my stove so I can use the wood stove during the windy days?

Answer 1

I had the same problem with smoke blowing down my wood stove Chimney pipe and causing smoke to fill my house.

But I looked around online and found out they make a wind direction wood stove pipe cap that blows around in the wind to prevent wind from blowing do the Chimney pipe.

I still get a little smoke every now and then but not as bad and not enough to fill the house with smoke.

If the wind gets really high then I just run my natural gas furnace instead of the wood stove until the wind dies down.

However the directional spinning wind cap has really helped and was well worth the money.

Here's a picture of one.