I usually do my annual stove cleaning this time of year. When do you clean your stove out and how frequently?
I brush anything 1/8" or over and mine has always been well below that after one year. I am under 1/4" after 2 yearsOnce annually. Typically only has about 1/4 cup of soot, could go two years or more. But I'd rather not be in the news...
Since I'm constantly changing stoves I tend to sweep more often than needed anyway. I don't want the mess when changing stoves and I want to monitor how each stove is doing.I brush anything 1/8" or over and mine has always been well below that after one year. I am under 1/4" after 2 years
With that stove in clay yes I would say so. But allot of that depends on how much wood you burn.I have a clay chimney with an Allnighter Moe.
Again that depends on the stove the chimney the volume of wood burnt the condition of that wood and the burning technique. With our customers I take between less than a cup out to 45 gallons of stuff out of chimneys.When done annually how much creosote do you collect in your clean out.
I burned 1 year seasoned at best all last winter. No, it was a very easy winter, but at the same time, we had lots of smoldering fires because of warmer temps. Some build up. Some glaze. But all in all, not bad.While heating . . . about every month . . . although I think I might have slacked off towards the end of the heating season this past winter and gone two months without sweeping.
Honestly, it's over-kill, but I always "preach" about inspecting one's chimney monthly to avoid potential chimney fires (especially up here and in my line of work where folks so often use sub-standard wood) . . . and in my case, it's literally only another 5 minutes to sweep the chimney (10 minutes if I am being really thorough) so I do it monthly . . . besides I would never hear the end of it from the guys at work if I had a chimney fire.
Most folks I suspect who are burning well seasoned wood and have had a year or so under their proverbial belt so they know how to run their stove and what to expect could get away with an annual sweep in the Fall (to make sure nothing has nested in the chimney over the spring and summer) and perhaps a mid-winter sweep if needed.
Me too. Although I didn't do it at the end of last season, so I just did it now. Will do it again around the first of the year.End of the season and Christmas/New Years or so.
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