With your cat stove, how often do you clean the cat and how do you clean them?
fwiw, I believe Woodstock recommends clean after a cord of wood or every 6 weeks. I cleaned ours once last winter and again at the end of the burning season. Both times there was barely any fly ash on the cat. For cleaning, I simply lift the cat out (wearing good gloves and stove down to a few coals but still warm), take it out on the porch and using an old paint brush, just lightly brush off the fly ash. Put the cat back in and load up the firebox. Cleaning takes me usually 2-4 minutes. I think if I hurried I could have it done in a minute.
fwiw, I believe Woodstock recommends clean after a cord of wood or every 6 weeks. I cleaned ours once last winter and again at the end of the burning season. Both times there was barely any fly ash on the cat. For cleaning, I simply lift the cat out (wearing good gloves and stove down to a few coals but still warm), take it out on the porch and using an old paint brush, just lightly brush off the fly ash. Put the cat back in and load up the firebox. Cleaning takes me usually 2-4 minutes. I think if I hurried I could have it done in a minute.