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I moved the rocket stove to my attached garage and piped out the the top of the roof. It made a huge difference. The chimney effect that I have in my house did not allow me to put the rocket stove in my basement. Maybe if I put a chimney all the way to the roof it would have worked, but I'm not sure. I wish somewhere in all the research I did, the importance of a chimney was stated. Showing these things exhausted out the side of a house is not practical unless you have the perfect situation. Now I have to figure out how to get the heat into my house from the garage. Probably tie into my cold air return. Thanks for all the comments in helping me figure this out.

Thanks for all the comments. So a higher chimney is the answer? This doesn't seem to make sense to me. Just to see what would happen, I added about 15 feet of 6" stove pipe along my outside wall to go up higher. Then I checked the draft at the stove and it didn't seem to make a difference. Still experiencing cold air pouring into the house. Maybe heating the pipe (lighting a fire) would be the answer? But I am afraid that when the fire starts to go out, the pipe would cool quickly and the air would come back in. Does anyone know if insulated pipe would make much of a difference vs. galvanized pipe? I hate to go through the expense of putting in insulated pipe if I am not convinced it will work. Maybe this rocket stove won't work in my basement? I appreciate any comments/ideas.

I have a new rocket stove in my basement. It works fine when it is going good but as the fire dies down, it starts to smoke back into the house. My house seems like it is starved for air (negative pressure). When the force of the fire dies down, the air starts coming back into my house. I have a 6 inch system. The exhaust is going out the side of the house. If I leave a window open it seems to help some, but that kind of defeats the purpose. I tried running a 6 inch fresh air line into the house to feed the fire, but it didn't help that much when the fire is going out. Also, I read it is not safe so I don't want to go that route. I am getting close to giving up. Any ideas would be much appreciated.