You may get the smoke smell when you first start the stove. Check the connection where the exhaust pipe connects to the stove. This is a spot where a small amount of smoke leaks during startup. Seal the connection with some high temp silicone. Also, make sure each section of pipe is sealed with high temp silicone. A very common cause of smoke smell is if you have a stove which has an air input pipe, this is a cause of smoke smell especially at startup. A small amount of smoke will escape. It is advisable to vent this pipe to the outdoors. It brings in air from outside for combustion and will eliminate the initial back flow of smoke during startup. The next time you start the stove, take a flashlight and watch the air intake spot. I'll bet you'll see a small amount of smoke puff out through it. Although not a serious problem, the fans pick it up and blow it through the room, just enough to smell it. There are kits for this but you would do just as well with 2 inch flexible dryer vent pipe. As for a carbon monoxide detector, it is great advice. Any time you use a gas, oil, wood stove, you should have one. Although carbon monoxide from a pellet stove is rare if installed properly, it is a safety valve to have a detector. You'll feel safer and just in case there is a problem, you'll be safer with one.

Yeah, I thought that too, like toolgirl. But I have a friend who does everything perfectly, so i accept. I also found, but didnt mention till now, that you can get any color you want if you will order 1000 of them. Maybe some log cabin association could organize something. If you have a few hundred members ... Kathy

JMHO, but I put smoke detectors: - at/near the top of stairways, and anywhere smoke might 'pool' - in any room with a water heater and/or furnace - in the garage and laundry - in the attic, or anywhere a fire might go unnoticed until it's gotten a good start Placement would be on the ceiling, at least 18" from any wall, or on the wall about 18" from the ceiling (air currents from any source are more apt to dilute the smoke concentration close to the wall/ceiling junction) Placement would also be where it's not a major effort to change the batteries at least annually. CO detectors - at least 1 per floor, plugged into a wall outlet that is not cut off from normal room air currents. JM$.02W

Yep - many are designed for easy swapout. They have a small wire harness that just clips in and out. If yours don't have that, just cap all the wires - black to black, white to white etc. Definitely remove them completely while the drywall is going up. Even if they don't go off, the dust is going to get in everything.