About a month or more ago, around the time the Chimney Sweep was scheduled to come, I pulled the Flue Pipe Thermometer out of its hole, just to check it.
I shouldn't have been, but was surprised that the probe was black as night, with smoke deposit. Totally covered.
So I cleaned it off at that time, just on principle.
Made me think this morning, as I was lighting the morning fire, "I wonder if it would be of any value to clean off the black from the probe every now and then. I wonder if it would help it function?" Valid point? Not necessary?
I recall reading on the packaging for the thermometer that there is a life expectancy. (or at least the manufacturer would like me to think so) of two years. So I had already set it in my mental agenda to replace it at that time, but that's not for a while yet.
Certainly it wouldn't hurt to clean the probe off, as a "regular maintenance thing, but it may not matter. What do YOU think?
-Soupy1957
I shouldn't have been, but was surprised that the probe was black as night, with smoke deposit. Totally covered.
So I cleaned it off at that time, just on principle.
Made me think this morning, as I was lighting the morning fire, "I wonder if it would be of any value to clean off the black from the probe every now and then. I wonder if it would help it function?" Valid point? Not necessary?
I recall reading on the packaging for the thermometer that there is a life expectancy. (or at least the manufacturer would like me to think so) of two years. So I had already set it in my mental agenda to replace it at that time, but that's not for a while yet.
Certainly it wouldn't hurt to clean the probe off, as a "regular maintenance thing, but it may not matter. What do YOU think?
-Soupy1957