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LMAO... Got THAT right...

I don't like the cat, never have had one. Simpler is better than complicated.

Pulled two mummified wood ducks from my mother-in-law's stove pipe...

Did your stack get cleaned? If there is little/no draw after that perhaps something happened at that time.

Pretty basic, it's either drawing air or it ain't ...... is there anyway possible that it isn't "that cold" outside? If the air temp outside is close or warmer than inside it may not pull very well.

Could also be on the inlet side....something plugged up.... this should be evident if it burns good with the door cracked.

Another pro tip, I quit fuggin with paper and tiny kindling years ago.... I use a plumbers MAP torch.... can point it up the pipe for a few seconds to warm up the chimney, usually only need 2-3 MAP bottles per winter....pretty cheap.

Yup, chimney sweeps sound old fashion, but you should clean it out every 3-5yrs. An air tight house won't draft the stove.

Speaking of dirty chimneys, I've seen 5ft flames out the top of the chimney (at night) when the creosote starts a chimney fire...it can get hot enough to burn through the seams between the fire brick and start the attic on fire.

Something is impeding the air flow. Could be a nest, dead animal, probably not soot if it was cleaned last spring.

We burn about 5 cords per year. I sweep my own chimney. Do it usually two or three times per year. I know it's time to sweep it when I open the stove door and a little smoke flows out.

If the chimney sweeper didn't pull the baffles out of the stove before sweeping, you might have a pile of soot on top of the baffles, blocking airflow into the flue. (assuming you have a baffled stove).

Tru story 😂😂 we just had built our house and it was a few months before we hooked up our stove.Somebody had a genius idea to stuff a wal mart bag over the flu pipe.It won’t there when we hooked it up to try it LOL

Good thing to check! A fresh air intake is a good upgrade to a fireplace or wood burning stove.

You got one of these ?

+1.
Assuming you have a modern high efficiency stove with a baffle and secondary burn air pipes just under the top surface.

If the pipe has no clean out Tee, in order to clean the chimney, you must disconnect the pipe right above the stove and put a catch bag on to capture the soot. If not, the soot will accumulate on top the baffle and partially block the air flow from the stove into the stove pipe and chimney.

Old school non baffled stoves would let the chimney sweep soot drop straight into the stove.

Bought one of those welded Chinese models with the glass (?) door.
Swept the stove pipe every year and it just got worse and worse....until it would only burn the starter blocks and smoke up the house! It was horrible! 😡
Decided to replace the pipe between the stove and the ceiling.
That's when we found a baffle just below where the stove pipe attaches!
Dude had FOUR YEARS of soot, ash and creosote build up that was blocking the exit from the fire box! 🤯
Shop vac'd that crap out, reassembled the stove and it worked like a champ!!!

Each fall, we sweep the pipe from the cap to the damper above the stove.
THE NEXT DAY, after all that crap has had a chance to settle down, we pull the pipe between the stove and the ceiling and vacuum all the crap off of that baffle!
We've never had another problem! 😉👍

Check to see if there is a baffle in the stove between the fire box and the smoke exit.
On our stove, the ONLY way to get to the baffle to clran it is through the stove pipe connection.

BTW!
Last year was our year to change the Triple Wall pipe up through the attic. Over $360??? 🤯
Single wall pipe between the stove and the ceiling was beginning to look bad.
A local HVAC supply house asked me if I'd like the "telescoping" pipe!
Huh?

Attaches to your stove and an outer pipe slides up and screws to the ceiling flange!
Makes changing out the stove pipe a breeze! ....and doesn't cost but pennies more than that old "cut-to-fit" and assemble pipe!

The easiest way is to screw the outer pipe to the ceiling flange, then pull the inner pipe down and slip it over the stove flange.

This.

A chimney running up the outside wall unininsulated can get so cold that a draft is hard to establish.

Unless it's rain soaked or been submerged in a lake, even the greenest of woods will burn.
You just gotta have a hot enough starter. 😉

Our stove is a Lopi 1750. It's pretty easy to maneuver the baffle bricks (four of them) out of the way, before sweeping the pipe. Then all the soot ends up in the firebox where it's easy to shovel out.

No, it’s a lever on bottom left of the stove which is moved horizontally, left to right. Left is wide open and right is mostly closed. Just started another fire in it and it got going and died out. I believe as well it has to do with airflow. I’ll figure out the make/model and post it up.

You need more air flow gotta have hit chunkin like a train then back it off