We have an older Blaze King wood stove (picture included) and for the last week or so it's been struggling a bit. There seemed to be a block of some kind since half the smoke billowed into the house through the door any time we opened it to refill the stove. We do open the flu for a time before we open the door so I know it's not that. Well, today there were coals to start with but it took an unusually long amount of time for my husband to get the fire to catch on anything new and I've been nursing the fire for close to an hour and it's still barely piddling along. This is obviously not normal. Our wood is very dry as well. it's been sitting cut and stacked under the carport for several seasons and up till today has been burning like a charm. We are in need of advice on how to get our stove back in fighting form. This has never happened to us before and we really don't know where to start to fix this problem but we need it fixed as soon as possible because it's out only source of heat and right now it's pretty much out for the count.
