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Default Woodstove "plastic" smell?
On 2/21/2020 1:16 AM, wrote:
This thread has been ongoing for 11 years with no definitive answer? I have a Lopi Leyden wood stove with plastic smell once unit gets hot. Actually see some black tar like substance in the crease of the top door. I need answers!!!!!! Please


The black tar substance is creosote. You may not be burning it hot
enough to keep it clean. Twice a day I would load up my stove and burn
it very hot for at least 15 minutes and then damper it down.

The plastic smell is just burning off some of the gunk that built up.
It certainly is not plastic.

Be sure you wood is dried out too. It contains a lot of volitiles that
will build up as it burns.
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