Soot on the glass with a Napoleon NPS40

[MrKLeen]

I know others on this forum with this stove have this issue.

I had noticed that the right hand side seems to sag a just a little bit, before latching after the last time I cleaned it, I put just a little bit of upward pressure on the right hand side before latching. It raised maybe an 1/8-1/4 inch. Stove has been running for more than 24 hours now and there is no sign of soot or grey haze. I usually have a good ampunt of grey haze and spots of fly ash by now, but there is really nothing to speak of. I would be curious to see if anyone else with this stove could produce the same result.

 

[EJW1]

I have the same stove with outside air kit. How is yours vented? Mine goes straight out then up the side of the house 10'. My glass will start to get cloudy in about a week or so. Cleans of in 10 seconds.

 

[krooser]

The hotter your stove burns the less soot you'll have... we all have this issue which is really a non issue to me.

 

[MrKLeen]

OK, well there are others with this stove that end up with very dirty glass after 24 hours. This helped me, I am almost 2 days into it and my glass is still clean where it would not have been before, no other changes have been made. It does clean off easy, but the longer it stays clean the better I like it.

 

[Art Vandelay]

I also have the NPS 40, soot on the glass has alot to do with pellet quality. I can burn Lignetics, Eagle Valley, or Cubex for over a week with very little build up in the pot and very little soot on the glass. If I burn Pennington, I can only burn it about a day before i have to remove the "cookie" that forms in the burn pot and clean the black soot off the glass. By the way, the very best cleaner I've found for the glass is the Mr. Clean magic erase sponge. Get one, you won't be sorry.

 

[j00fek]

i cleaned my glass off with ceramic stove top cleaner, works great. but the pellet quality has alot to do with the soot on the glass. did a full clean today and after 7 days the whole glass was nappy

 

[jprussell]

I use water and ceramic cleaner.

Sootage varies with the pellets. I'm burning Athens and have noted differneces in the lots from time to time. Nothing major. Just a fact of life when burning pellets and the Napoleon is so easy adjust settings.