I'm just curious...how often does everyone completely take apart their venting and clean it and re-caulk it? Every year?....every couple years??....never??
I'm just curious...how often does everyone completely take apart their venting and clean it and re-caulk it? Every year?....every couple years??....never??
When u guys clean the vent pipe, you just run the brush through it and use a leaf vac to suck out the ash? And if so, do you leave the door open on the stove?
I clean my venting at the beginning and end of every heating season. I'm having a new stove installed this week (if all goes according to plan) and I think the new Harman P61 is built in such a way as it will now be much easier to clean the exhaust area all the way to the vertical vent. With my current Lopi I have to remove the exhaust blower motor and the solid pipe it's connected to (which then goes into the vertical venting via a T) to get at the ash build up in the stove itself. After that, I get up on my roof and use a chimney sweep to dislodge any ash built up in the vertical portion of my venting. This ash either blows out or sinks down to the bottom of the vent where I then vacuum it up. I think with the Harman I can just stick my hose right into the tube (avoiding the sensor that's placed near there of course) and suck the ash out without having to completely remove anything. I'll still need to get on the roof twice a year and do the chimney sweep thing, but that's not a a big deal.
If you do it at the end of the season... Why does it need done at the.beginning of the season? Shouldn't it still be clean from end of season cleaning? Or did you mean mid-season (half of total fuel burned) and end of season (other half of fuel burned)?
Just askin.. Because there is no burning between the end and the beginning.
We use essential cookies to make this site work, and optional cookies to enhance your experience.