Kevin Nagy

I ran the stove again this weekend to test your suggestions/questions. With the air inlet shut there is no more smoke leakage. Also when I open the door with the air inlet even partially shut the flames and smoke leap out at me. I’ll be redoing my door before I do anything else thanks again I knew it would be something simple. God thing the lid of the barrel comes off I can just throw another one on

I didnt try shutting the air inlet to see if it would pull back in. The chimney is about 16' tall, it sticks above the peak of the garage 3-4'. There are two bends in the chimney, after it leaves the stove about 3' up there are two 90 degree bends and then its a straight shot through the roof. I cant install any cord seal in the door because it just sits flat when shut, there is no edge for the seal to go into, poor design on my part but this summer im going to make a new door. If i open the door the flames dont leap out but the smoke flows out steadily into the room. I will take some pictures tomorrow because i feel like there is a simple flaw in my design that i just cant see.

So I’ve been browsing this site for a few months now and there’s is tons of fantastic information but I can’t seem to find a solution to my problem. I built a 45 gallon drum barrel stove, before I learned about rocket stoves of course. So I want to get this one going instead of a total redesign. It’s mounted horozontally in my garage in a corner away from all flammable. It’s a detached garage. I have a decent sized air inlet, about 4”x6”, my chimney is 6”. I can get a good hot fire burning but after about 30 minutes and the barrel reaching a steady temp of 600 at the hottest spot it starts to leak smoke out the fire loading door into the garage. It’s not well sealed but I get no smoke until it’s hot and when I open the door it billows out. Is this normal because the rest of the garage is so cold? It’s -25C in Alberta right now.