Burnpot Filling Up

[DexterDay]

Knowing the air path, from intake to exhaust collar, is crucial to the proper cleaning of a stove. Without knowing where the air goes? One doesn't know where the ash goes...

Congrats on the clean stove. Those long brushes are a life saver. I probably have 30 different brushes I have collected over the years.

 

[djs_net]

This is exactly why some of us get frustrated, when the symptoms we've seen hundreds of times indicate that the stove is dirty inside, but we get the owner telling us "it's a clean as a whistle....you can eat off the inside of it", and things like that. THEN, when the owner finally really does a proper cleaning, suddenly the stove isn't as clean as we are led to believe.

Don't know if this is a pride thing on people's part, that they just don't want to admit something, or they don't want to believe they did a poor job, or what.

I can't speak for others, but in my case it had nothing to do with pride or admiting I was wrong. I honestly had no idea that the surface areas behind the ash traps were so big and needed to be brushed. I vaccuum those areas regularly and they looked clean.

Knowing what I know now, I'm shocked that there isn't more detailed cleaning instructions in the owners manual or a better way to access the chamber. Even with the long brush, I feel like there's ash I'm missing in there.

 

[jtakeman]

Knowing what I know now, I'm shocked that there isn't more detailed cleaning instructions in the owners manual or a better way to access the chamber. Even with the long brush, I feel like there's ash I'm missing in there.

I hated the blind area's that lurk inside the breckwell stoves. I never felt I could get all the crud out of there either. So the replacement stove wasn't going to have(or as little as possible) blind passages. My Enviro has a removable inner wall/baffle that makes life easier! There are a few others brands out there too!

Glad your burning again!