wood burning stoves and smoke alarms

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Finally got round to doing the flue pipe for our stove today, it's a villager A flat-top, rated at 14kw.

I lit it at 2pm and from about 5pm the smoke alarm in the living room has gone off every half hour or so. The house doesn't smell smoky and there's no visible smoke coming from the stove or the flue.

I should add, the stove is at one end of a big room, maybe 17m x 5m x 5m high and the room has 3 smoke alarms (hard wired with battery backup).


Should I get a sparky to come and remove the alarm nearest the stove?

Or should the stove not be setting it off in the first place?

I could cut the breaker for the smoke alarms and remove the battery from the one nearest the stove but I don't really fancy doing this...

Cheers
Lefty

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TooLateForAName said:

Is it just a smoke alarm or carbon monoxide?

Just smoke, I have separate CO alarms and they haven't gone off.

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Thanks for the input chaps, I'll light it again today and see how we get on.