We had a warmer day today so instead of getting home from work and doing the late afternoon load I decided to instead let the coals die down and remove the stove pipe and have a look-see at the inside of my chimney. This is the first time I have looked, seeing this is my first year with the Kuuma. I've been burning since November sometime and started out burning mostly 1.5 year seasoned pine. I burned maybe a little over a face cord of it early on and have since been burning mostly ~2 year seasoned red and white oak.
I was pleasantly surprised when I took a light and shined it up the chimney. The pics actually make it look worse than it is, but all there was was just a very fine white-gray powder. When I wiped it with my fingers it came right off and amounted to less than 1/32" in thickness. The stove pipe had more of a brown-ish powder, but there was no visible creosote anywhere in the stove pipe either. All I did was run my gloved hand down & around the stove pipe and it all came right off and fell to the ground. I'm not even sure it's worth having my chimney cleaned this spring. I may just buy a poly brush and run it up myself from the bottom. It's so light the little bit of natural draft may take most of it up and out on it's own. We have a 12/12 pitch metal roof, so I can't get to it from the top.
![First year with Kuuma....chimney photos..... First year with Kuuma....chimney photos.....](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/154/154526-448ef092cbbb313e22f319928e7dfecd.jpg)
I was pleasantly surprised when I took a light and shined it up the chimney. The pics actually make it look worse than it is, but all there was was just a very fine white-gray powder. When I wiped it with my fingers it came right off and amounted to less than 1/32" in thickness. The stove pipe had more of a brown-ish powder, but there was no visible creosote anywhere in the stove pipe either. All I did was run my gloved hand down & around the stove pipe and it all came right off and fell to the ground. I'm not even sure it's worth having my chimney cleaned this spring. I may just buy a poly brush and run it up myself from the bottom. It's so light the little bit of natural draft may take most of it up and out on it's own. We have a 12/12 pitch metal roof, so I can't get to it from the top.
![First year with Kuuma....chimney photos..... First year with Kuuma....chimney photos.....](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/154/154525-1eae884c5af266ec69438bcc4ca1a971.jpg)
![First year with Kuuma....chimney photos..... First year with Kuuma....chimney photos.....](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/154/154526-448ef092cbbb313e22f319928e7dfecd.jpg)
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