Newbie with smoky flue

Ectophile

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

is this an early april fools thread? what normally happens when you set something alight? Yes, it smokes. Now put it in a big box of iron. Yes it has the same effect. Capice?

Not when it's burning properly. If the wood is smoking, then it's just smouldering rather than burning.

SG27

I find the chimney smokes a lot when first lit then once up and running you can barely see any smoke. Our house is amongst a group of about 8 old houses all with chimneys, not smoke controlled, so you can always smell the smoke from somewhere it's not an unpleasant smell. There isn't always any visible smoke coming from the chimneys though.