blowers and dust

Some of my stover friends complain about the amount of dust their stoves generate in the house. Other than the little bit of ash that escapes onto the ash lip when loading or starting a new fire, I don't think my big cat stove generates any dust in the house. It is installed in a large fireplace, and I vacuum around it every week during the Saturday morning ritual of emptying the ash pan and cleaning the door glass, which may be a big part of why I'm not seeing much dust in the house.

So, looking at putting a new stove in the other end of the house, installed in another fireplace with an integral blower, am I going to blowing much dust into the house? I'd be interested to hear from anyone with a Jotul 500 or similar sized stove with a blower.

Thanks.

While I do believe stoves make dust (ash spill-out, whatever you want to call it), but I was not trying to imply a stove with a blower would make more dust than one without. Just suspecting a stove with a blower might do a much more efficient job of distributing said dust into the room, versus letting it lie near the stove where it is vacuumed up during the weekly cleaning.

As to the central furnace / filter issue, that isn't really at play here. Most houses around here, with the exception of newer development houses, have baseboard heating or hot water radiators. No filtration there, and people still claim an increase in house dust as a result of using their wood stove.

On the subject of ash removal, I used to scrape all of my ash thru the grate each day, and would have to empty my ash pan every third day. Aside from being a huge inconvenience, I began to suspect a lot of this ash I was throwing in the trash probably contained some usable unburned material. Now, I just let the ash lie in the stove, and it never seems to get deeper than 2", no matter how much I use the stove between cleanings. I suspect some of it flies up the chimney, but most of what I had been scraping thru the grate seems to be successfully burning, if I just leave it. I still empty the ash pan once a week, but now I find it's not even half full, whereas it used to be overflowing within a few days.