Who keeps the dirtiest glass??

I probably got the award during my first year apprenticeship with the help of wet oak. Now with good fuel and some experience, no problem. If I cut the air down too far too soon for a long burn, it will cloud up dark. Getting the next reload to hit 600-650 and its very clean except a quarter inch around the edges. 550 stovetop won't do the trick, must hit better than 600.

Taking another look at your picture, does that stove have an "air wash" ?

maverick06 said:

There are so many threads and comments about keeping glass clean... Who keeps the dirtiest glass??

I burn dry wood, and I burn it pretty hot. The stove design just loves to soot up the window. (wood is bought c/s and sits stacked in my yard for 2 years, so its at least that old). I get a reasonable and as expected amount of creosote in the chimney every year at the anual cleaning, so I feel I am doing things right, just have a stove that likes to stay dirty. So I dont bother cleaning the glass anymore.

I havent cleaned the windows in the last 5 cords of wood.


Anyone have me beat?

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I can't beat that but I would cry if my glass looked like that! I love to sit and watch my fire at night, that is my "me time" and with that glass, you can't see anything. Do your door gaskets pass the dollar bill test? Is the inside of your stove that black too? I'm not questioning your process, I just can't imagine a stove glass being that dirty burning wood that seasoned. Even when I get a little burn mark from a log moving overnight too close to the glass, the next hot fire burns it right off. So sorry your stove does this That is awful!

I clean the glass in the spring but it gets no where near that. It's black at the bottom corners and that's about it.

I must have clean glass. I wipe the film off every day that its not burning real hot.
Dark corners.. gotta go.!

My glass on all three stoves don't blacken for the most part of the burn season. They get foggy. I'll occasionally get blacken areas around the bottom of the glass on the 30 and black spots on the Defiant and Encore when a split leans up against the glass.

I will get more blackening during milder weather for a variety of reasons.

maverick06 said:

yeah, I used to get very agitated with it getting dirty, finally just gave up. The doors pass the test. Have talked to people who have the same stove, seems pretty common. Even a really hot run wont clear it! The inside of the stove is good, bricks are always nice and clean too.

Now, to be honest. The fireplace is in the room adjacent to where we usually are, so i have a fan blowing across the face to get the heat into the right room. Thats not helping the glass, but it was like this regardless.

Maybe i will take a notion and clean it this weekend

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You know about wet newspaper and ashes from the stove right?

All i get on the Fireview is fly ash,the Rangeley cruded the lower corners but i burned low and my wood only seasoned 8 months so my fault.

Can't believe nobody has said this so here it goes "Anyone who owns a Blaze King". My glass never gets black but it clouds up enough sometimes that I can't see through it so in the morning when the stove is not hot I take a damp paper towel and wipe it clean. I swore this year I wasn't going to let the cloudy glass bother me, but I'm the type of person who has to have everything clean and the fact that I paid for a stove with glass so I could watch the fire.

My encore, even burning 3 year old wood will blacken the windows on a low overnight burn. It will burn off in the morning but can look nasty in shoulder season.

I have to shine a Mag-Lite in the glass, just to make sure I have a fire.

lopiliberty said:

Can't believe nobody has said this so here it goes "Anyone who owns a Blaze King".

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Even the Blaze king doesn't get that bad, I can always watch the "fire" through the middle/top of the window. The BK glass gets dark from the bottom corners up to make a triangle where the entire top of the glass is clean and each side of the window is 50% blackened. It's not just a tint, film, or fog but actual crusty bubbly creosote. When it gets hot, the thickest stuff will bubble clean and leave clear spots for a short while in the extreme bottom corners. We call those dragon eyes.

To clean real black junk you must use more than ash and paper, you must use more than a chemical, you actually have to scrape it off with a blade. Nothing else will touch it.

Highbeam said:

Even the Blaze king doesn't get that bad, I can always watch the "fire" through the middle/top of the window. The BK glass gets dark from the bottom corners up to make a triangle where the entire top of the glass is clean and each side of the window is 50% blackened. It's not just a tint, film, or fog but actual crusty bubbly creosote. When it gets hot, the thickest stuff will bubble clean and leave clear spots for a short while in the extreme bottom corners. We call those dragon eyes.

To clean real black junk you must use more than ash and paper, you must use more than a chemical, you actually have to scrape it off with a blade. Nothing else will touch it.

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I get the same black creosote buildup... Mostly in the shoulder season when doing a lot of long slow burns... On a vc it affects the top half of the glass and the left door worse than the right. The bottom third stays clear from the heat of the coal bed. The rest I burn off when firing a reload.

This time of year its burning hot enough to never get that bad.

Even nastier is the crust on the inside of the top griddle. Its a good quarter inch of black buildup that never seems to burn off.....

But my chimney stays pretty clean

Old Granpa Fisher has not seen Glass that clean in his life. I keep him dirty and only open the screws if I want him to eat some wood. When I open the doors and put the screen up Its about that dirty looking through the mesh.

Who keeps the dirtiest glass??

That would be a friend of mine whose catalytic wood stove has a solid door, or so I thought. It turns out there is a window in the door, but not a glimmer of even a roaring blaze can be seen through it. It's usually not roaring though. He keeps the stove choked down to the point the chimney smolders all day long.

I worry about him.

What a interesting way to get people to admit their class gets dirty..lol.

Anyways as always..the BK wins this contest also!

I would not worry. I think i may up my storage maybe 1,000 gallons with hot water tube from Grandpa burn only dry wood and batch burn. If I burn all dry wood i wonder if I will have gray spots on my plastic lenses.

pen said:

Here's your prize.

pen

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Thanks but could I have a new box of razor blades instead? lol

just cleaned because I dint like da shadows since november but could've gone longer