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To: jsh3180

Could be as simple as a bathroom vent of a Kitchen vent running. Wind can cause downdraft in stovepipe.


11 posted on 11/17/2012 10:42:13 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion; jsh3180
Wind can cause downdraft in stovepipe.

Yep. Your problem is not necessarily a clogged stovepipe. I have had a problem similar to yours every now and then during the past 30 years. Usually, it has something to do with the weather, ie., a lot of wind or screwy barometric pressure or something like that...

BTW, after going 3 or 4 years paying a sweep to come ream out my stovepipe I finally bought my own kit at Home Depot. It's basically a nylon (or wire) brush and a bunch of skinny, pole pieces that screw together one at a time as you feed the brush down the pipe. The kits are not expensive at all. Now I scoot up on the roof a few times each winter and ream out the pipe myself. It's easy and free; I can hardly imagine how much money I have saved over the decades, and I can clean my stovepipe whenever I think it needs it.

Good luck.

29 posted on 11/17/2012 12:20:47 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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