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Our tech said we should crack the top for up to a minute before we load, which can help, but really getting it going through the front is the best workaround we have found. It continues to smoke if we open the top and it isn't fully underway. It's our main heat in Maine, so it our first season was a hard learning curve. The Dauntless is beautiful and runs well once it's started, but takes a long time to get to that point. Hello! Thanks for tagging me, I wasn't following this forum at this point. Happy to answer other questions, if I can!

#Vermont castings dauntless how to

(I suspect part of this is that it is so tight and we have been limping along with outdated models in that past!) Anyway, feels like we have figured out how to make it happen, but not as easy as our former stove, which was a 35+ year old VC something, I can't remember. (The front glass cracked, so we had to have it replaced anyway under the warranty.) My partner and I have both lived with woodstoves for years and have never had other models required this much attention to get going. Our house is not that tight, we have a masonry chimney, and we have had our installation re-checked by professionals and they say it is working as it should.

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We have learned that we truly do need a LARGE amount of kindling and the front door ajar for an hour plus to get it going. View attachment 280773 View attachment 280774

Some come on here and dont take the advice from people with experience and they cant figure out why there stove doesn't run right. This unburned smoke is what is building up the creosote in the flue.

After my stove is up to temp I close the damper and run the cat. Poor to weak draft will make for an unhappy stove and stove owner. You have a down draft stove that exits out the back of the stove instead of straight up and you have a 90 on it. Having your flue temps up will make your stove happy and it will run better. having a hot cat will help keep your flue temps up when you cut the air back. The cat is going to help keep the stove pipe clean and I rather spend 200 for the cat and not worry about creosote build up. Yes I have a VC 2 n 1 2040 and I wouldn't burn with out the cat.

Weekly inspection/clearing of the air holes in the back, as we burn it so much.

Chimney was new in 2005, is clean + clear.Honestly, we can't figure out what is different/next steps!

This isn't exactly all the time, but most, even today after it's been running for several days straight, when I was adding logs, it let smoke into our house. The dealer told us to hold the lid at an angle for a minute before opening fully, to reorient the smoke, which doesn't work. Once the fire is established and we want to add wood from the top, no matter what we do, smoke comes into our house.

#Vermont castings dauntless manual

The manual calls for 4# to start each fire and that is about right. We are coming off an old, larger model, so have had to get used to using much more small wood and kindling. Getting the stove going is hard/takes almost an hour, but we have mostly figured that out. Any insight would be helpful! We had it professionally installed and the dealer has been to our house to service it, telling us that there was no issue. We have been having an issue with smoke coming into our house when we are loading the stove and cannot figure it out. We installed a new Vermont Castings Dauntless in November.