How often do you clean your vertical pellet pipe

[OhioBurner©]

Forgot that all of my run is inside, and technically the manual says only need a cleanout for 90's. My hook up consists of 2-45's with a 6 ft piece of pipe and an 18" of pipe outside at horizontal. The stove as close to the wall as they could get it (concrete). If I had known then, what I know now . . . Fortunately I'm a small gal so can contort to remove the panels for cleaning, but installing the OAK was a challenge trying to see what the heck I was doing (and unsure what I was doing to begin with - LOL).

Yeah not sure how you could even do a cleanout with your config. The 90 behind my stove that goes up sits only a few inches off the hearth pad so even if I used a cleanout tee instead of a 90º elbow I wouldn't have enough space to get a brush in there between the brick hearth and underside of tee. And my other tee is inside the masonry chimney so no way to get in there!

Harman XXV as well, 15 ft vertical rise with top vent option installed. I clean the vertical rise once per season. I clean the exhaust path, ESP,combustion blower every ton, scrape everyday and brush heat exchanger once per week.

Wow thought those Harmans could go a month or more without touching...

 

[Threerun]

Once a year with a brush. I have a clean out tee at the bottom of the run behind the stove. I tape an empty pellet bag to it, go outside and run a brush down the pipe a few times. Let the bag settle, remove and pour in the garden.

Man it's a lot easier than my old wood stove for sure...