woodstove chimney advice

[Ivan]

Hi,
We are in New Hampshire, so our woodsupply is mostly beech, red maple , and oak. We tend to cut and split our wood around April and burn the following Dec. We do stack it in an open sided roofed wood shed with plenty of ventilation.. I know all about being a year ahead, just never can get ahead , as far as firewood is concerned.. However, I have used the wood stove for 3 years and have never developed a creosote problem? My set up is similar to your except i have a shorter section between the 2 elbows inside the yurt . I go double wall through the yurt skin than a section and a clean out Tee, up a few sections to a spark arrester, all outside sections are double wall. I am probably 5’ shorter than your, in fact not quite as high as the

dome

, but 2-3’ away from the side of the Yurt. From a wood burning neophyte, i think there is a sweet spot on the height of the stack, the longer the smoke is in the stack the more temp it will drop and condensate? Make sure your spark arrester cap is not plugged up and restricting the flow? I have replace the cat on my stove when I first got it, as it was 15 years old. We also burn hot, and make sure not to switch it to the cat unless it is hot , If the stove cools off we will switch back to normal burn and get it hot again. If the stove is in Cat mode and it is not at the prescribed temp, the cat will not light off and will cool the gasses even more which will create a a creosote building situation.. Hope I helped , as this is what we have and what we do and it works for us. Also if you have any large hills adjacent to your Yurt, you could get a downdraft?