Its been several days and it has been working flawlessly since then. I am pretty happy.
With this additional heat source, we managed to turn a pretty nice sunroom, where it used to be chilly to the extent of non-useable in the winter, to our cat's favorite hangouts. Dude loves to nap there now.
Here is an additional question for you guys:
I counted and I have 4 vacuum cleaners in the house now and I really do not want to add another one just for cleaning the stove.
I have one of these
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It is a three gallon portable wet dry shop vac type. It does the job now. What I would like to know is a specific fine dust bag that fits this vac. I jerry rigged a cloth bag that I attach to the exhaust port to catch some of the fine dust and it works but sometimes I can still smell soot or whatever in the room. I am not familiar with the grading or whatever term they use for the vacuum bags but I think for the stove we need some pretty high grade fine dust type? Any advice appreciated!