Creosote packing chimney liner

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Britales

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Nov 14, 2007
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Eastern Shore, VA.
I've got a Thelin Parlor 3000 stove and both wife and I are very happy with it. We seem to have a problem that is perplexing however. We installed the stove last Dec.
32' high - 4" chimney liner, draws fine but the liner was packed with ash & creosote today! Chimney guy came cleaned it out for the second time since install. Maybe this is not out of the ordinary? I perform weekly maintainence on the stove, vacuum, clean out the tee, pellets are dry. Is it possible that because of my max chimney height, I have to burn the stove on high or med. settings all the time? Thelin says that the height is on the upper limit but that it should not be a factor!
Perhaps I should just expect to clean the liner twice in a year, or does this seem like the problem is elsewhere?
 
What are you or have you been burning for pellets??? I suspect if you are using a softwoood all the time it might give off more creosote. Do you have a OAK? Some of these could be the issue.
 
May not be out of the ordinary. I typically brush down
the 15' liner once a year and get a couple of measured cups
of ash out of just the liner at that time.
Approx. 3 tons of pellets through my stove in a years time.
When you say the liner was packed, how much
came out exactly?

Burning on the lower settings makes my stove produce
more fly ash. Yours may be the same deal.
 
Britales said:
I've got a Thelin Parlor 3000 stove and both wife and I are very happy with it. We seem to have a problem that is perplexing however. We installed the stove last Dec.
32' high - 4" chimney liner, draws fine but the liner was packed with ash & creosote today! Chimney guy came cleaned it out for the second time since install. Maybe this is not out of the ordinary? I perform weekly maintainence on the stove, vacuum, clean out the tee, pellets are dry. Is it possible that because of my max chimney height, I have to burn the stove on high or med. settings all the time? Thelin says that the height is on the upper limit but that it should not be a factor!
Perhaps I should just expect to clean the liner twice in a year, or does this seem like the problem is elsewhere?

If you are getting creosote (black tarry or hard black plasticky stuff) it means your fuel isn`t being completely burned. Something is wrong.
 
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