Well I finally did the unthinkable!

[TonyVideo]

Wife took the grandkids this afternoon to her mom's to color eggs and make easter bunny cakes. Me I decided to clean the P68 for Easter tomorrow.

Emptied my ash vac and started brushing down inside. Scraped the pot good. Started up the vac and started sucking up all the ash. About 30 seconds in started smelling ash which was very unusual as I have the exhaust running. I also thought I must have gotten my glasses dirty with dust. Stopped and look behind me and fine ash was just flying out the exhaust in the most beautiful plume. A haze formed over our living room like a thick fog.

I froze for a second before turning off the vac in horror. Oh this wasn't good. Immediately opened the front door and ran to the back door and opened it and the wind was perfect from back to front. I then turned on our furnace blower as it has a HEPA filter and the intake is in the living room. It took 15 minutes to knock down the haze.

Checked the vac outside and in my haste to put the top back on I didn't seal the rubber ring around the top so part of it was open and ash taking the path of least resistance just bypassed the filter.

Went back to the living room and decided I was in big trouble. Since the ash vac was now working properly I got a brush attachment and took 3 hours going over everything and then dusted everything, countertops and tables. Did a once over and it looked better than before. I was exhausted.

Wife comes home and smelled the Pledge. Her first words were "what did you do?" Words of advice, never answer a question with a question as it is a dead giveaway. Plus she knows me to well as I have never dusted anything in the living room. She could tell something was up. I could not lie, but even she said it was a good job. I have learned my lesson.

NEVER HURRY TO CLEAN YOUR STOVE!

I am sure I will still pay for this. The waiting will be the hardest part.

 

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[kappel15]

ROFLMAO Thanks for sharing, and you are so right. LOL

 

[BrotherBart]

Not quite the same, but too much to type, but I fogged the place cleaning the wood stove at season end a few years ago. Takes forever to clean the joint.

Edit: From the last time I told it.

Told it here before. Every year after somebody does something similar. A few years ago with the old big wood stove I went to clean it up for the upcoming season. Being smart I put the shop vac outside the deck door and attached the long hose.

I was shoulders deep in the stove cleaning away and back out to find myself in a room with zero visibility. Yanking the hose I had turned the exhaust port directly back in the door and an old chunk of coaled wood had nuked a hole in the the paper filter in the vac.

Took two weeks to clean everything. Kinda.

 

[bags]

Just think how it would have worked out for ya if you left the mess for your wife to clean up? LOL! 3 hours of cleaning or a never ending reminder about it. IMO 3 hrs. was well worth it. Bet ya check things over next time.

 

[TonyVideo]

Yea if I left it to the wife it would not have turned out well. She has had time later tonight and is not real happy but OK. You can't really see it on the drapes unless you get close and swipe your finger across it but it is there. I didn't think of the window sills either. Everything else is good. Although I am sure the adjoining rooms are somewhat effected as I was quicker in those rooms. Good for now but I am sure we will do a better spring cleaning now. I think the doors open with the breeze and furnace filter really helped. I will be replacing the filter sooner than later. Furnace didn't get used much except for single digits or below. If any ash exists it had settled or went out the door/filter as the dusted tables still look OK. I don't even want to think if another 30 seconds past as I was focused on the stove. I watched the final 4 games and expected dust to recollect on the screen but nothing. I haven't even looked into my office. The door was shut as my 2 year old grandson likes to go in there. Any other day the door would have been opened. Thankful it wasn't worse. Someday I may laugh about it but not now.

You can bet I will check from now on.

 

[johneh]

Bin their done that

 

[Ambient]

Yea if I left it to the wife it would not have turned out well. She has had time later tonight and is not real happy but OK. You can't really see it on the drapes unless you get close and swipe your finger across it but it is there. I didn't think of the window sills either. Everything else is good. Although I am sure the adjoining rooms are somewhat effected as I was quicker in those rooms. Good for now but I am sure we will do a better spring cleaning now. I think the doors open with the breeze and furnace filter really helped. I will be replacing the filter sooner than later. Furnace didn't get used much except for single digits or below. If any ash exists it had settled or went out the door/filter as the dusted tables still look OK. I don't even want to think if another 30 seconds past as I was focused on the stove. I watched the final 4 games and expected dust to recollect on the screen but nothing. I haven't even looked into my office. The door was shut as my 2 year old grandson likes to go in there. Any other day the door would have been opened. Thankful it wasn't worse. Someday I may laugh about it but not now.

You can bet I will check from now on.

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TonyVideo didn't happen to make a video of this moment? I thinking a submission to America's Funniest Video might win some cash to off set the troubles. I bet we've all had moments like this. I've had dust collection pop apart in the shop, oh what a mess. The risk didn't include pissing off the wife though.

Speaking of the wife , when we visited Disney World with our four children. We stayed at Fort Wilderness, essentially an efficiency so we could make our own meals, and have more room for the children to get outside. The second morning we were there, the wife was cleaning the kitchen as I was getting the rest of the family ready for the day's adventures. We left and did the morning events at the magic kingdom, returning for lunch and a nap for the little ones. The second son grabbed the keys and ran to the door to open it. The door flew open and our son was suddenly on the deck screaming. As I ran to him, I realized he wasn't screaming, he was hysterical, doubled up laughing his ass off. Now the other brothers were there, and they were also hysterical. It seems since the wife was in a hurry to do the dishes that morning, she took a calculated risk of using Dawn dish detergent in the dishwasher. Any idea how many bubbles you get with the trays filled with Dawn detergent in a dishwasher? The bubbles had filled the entire floor in the kitchen about three feet up and when the son opened the door they fell out onto the deck, is how many bubbles you get. We didn't have a dishwasher at home, she hadn't had one growing up in her family's home either, she knew Dawn was the best soap, just not the best for a dishwasher. We always wished we had a video of that moment, the children all remember it well also.

 

[TonyVideo]

I rack it up to memories. Mickey bubbles.

 

[bags]

All said and done the stoves threw out more heat than your shop vac did ash dust so there is a friendly reminder for the wife if it gets ugly. LOL!

Ash dust is easy and and cheap to clean too. Tedious, I am sure, but never the less not as bad as other things. She'll get over it but knowing women they tend to never forget. Good luck!

Just like my wife, "Watch out for deer." Sounded like a broken record until she hit one in the morning on the way to school with the kids. Funny thing is that she quit saying it and now all three kids kindly remind her. She only said it when I was driving her new car. I think she'd care less if I hit one in my truck or car.

They also tend to have selective things they like to ride us on. Just the way it works. LOL!

 

[chken]

Lesson is: Never touch the Pledge! It's a giveaway that you had to clean something.

 

[thegirlfromgaleairy]

Agreed. Leaving your wallet at home when you are "going fishing" also can save you some troubles. As previously mentioned, selective and long-lasting memory is key to long lasting marriages. Besides, Pledge is toxic (don't tell her that).