Wind noise from wood burner

gazfocus

Moved into a new rental property in the summer and now winter is hitting, we are experiencing a lot of wind noise through the fire in the living room. 

The fire is a wood burner with the flu going through the bedroom above, then out through the roof. 

Is it normal to hear the wind through a wood burner? (Our last house had one and I don’t remember ever hearing wind through it but we do seem to get a lot more wind where we live now as we are quite a bit higher up). 

Is there anything we can add to the fire, or the flu, to reduce the amount of wind noise we are getting?

Mutton_Geoff

A wind deflector on the top of the flue?

gazfocus

Thanks, I’ll suggest this. Not got any experience with wood burners if I’m honest. The landlord had some work done to the roof where the flue comes through a few weeks ago so I did question whether something could have been done to make the noise worse as we never noticed it prior but of course, they said that nothing was affected. 

Will ask if we can pay for a deflector to be installed while the scaffolding is still up. 

Grenage

It's quite normal when it gets blustery.  Closing the vents down helps.

Emily_Joy

Yes - it is absolutely normal to hear wind in the wood burner. I actually like the sound. Are you planning to use it? Do you have a CO alarm in the same room?

gazfocus

Grenage said:

It's quite normal when it gets blustery.  Closing the vents down helps.

Emily_Joy said:

Yes - it is absolutely normal to hear wind in the wood burner. I actually like the sound. Are you planning to use it? Do you have a CO alarm in the same room?

We’ve only ever had one house with a wood burner before and don’t recall ever hearing it but as I say, the winds where we are now are a fair bit stronger so could well be ‘normal’. 

We don’t plan on using the fire at the moment but there is a CO2 alarm in the room. We are planning to put some battery powered lights inside the fire instead, but that could change depending on energy prices

ThisIsWeird

40-50 mph winds here at the mo'. Our wee wood burner, which was providing sterling service a couple of hours ago, is now making wind-roary sounds to suit the outside conditions.
Usually not an issue - it really is due to the current strong winds.
If you have no intention of using it as a stove, then almost certainly you can reduce the noise by, say, stuffing a rolled-up ball of cloth into the flue exit inside the stove, but you'll likely need to remove the flue baffle first to gain access. NB - tie a cord around anything you put there, and fix down the other end - you don't want it being sucked up! Also, use something fluffy and porous so that some air always travels up the flue to keep it dry.
I suspect strongly, tho', that noise just won't be an issue for most of the year, so I'd wait and see first.

FreeBear

ThisIsWeird said: If you have no intention of using it as a stove, then almost certainly you can reduce the noise by, say, stuffing a rolled-up ball of cloth into the flue exit inside the stove, but you'll likely need to remove the flue baffle first to gain access. NB - tie a cord around anything you put there, and fix down the other end - you don't want it being sucked up! Also, use something fluffy and porous so that some air always travels up the flue to keep it dry.

If the stove is fitted with a chimney liner, then the bung doesn't need to be porous - A stainless steel liner is not going to suffer from condensation and hardly needs ventilation.

A stout bit of cord attached to the bung and dangling down in to the firebox should serve as a warning that it needs removing before a fire is lit. Not likely that it would get sucked up the flue unless an extreme weather event occurs.