HOW MANY TIMES A HEATING SEASON DO YOU CLEAN YOUR STOVE

every sunday regardless of how much I burn

Every two weeks when I burned 3 tons of Green Supremes last year.

This year, I am burning Pacific Clean fire and have not cleaned the stove yet.

basic cleaning weekly, scrape pot and clean glass daily, and major complete cleaning monthly.

Every 30 days or after a ton burned.

Brush the exchanger daily, full strip down and dirty about 40 bags when the ash bin gets close to full or when a stretch of cold ugly weather may come a knocking. Hate having any surprises. Ounce of prevention worth the effort.

tsmith said:

basic cleaning weekly, scrape pot and clean glass daily, and major complete cleaning monthly.

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Exactly what I do.

ChandlerR said:

Exactly what I do.

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Same here

Bout every 3 weeks.

Light cleaning weekly. Full cleaning after every ton. (four times a year)

I just keep an eye on the fire glass etc and clean as needed. A real good cleaning once a month.

I must be doing something wrong. My glass is greyed about 50% over after 3 bags, and I clean the burn pot every 2 bags because there is a buildup of a giant chunk of ash. Basically every other day it gets a decent cleaning and every week a in depth cleanning.. too bad we dont have access to good pellets where i live in maine.

hooter04 said:

I just wanted to get an idea of how many times you clean your stoves in a season.I think I clean mine 5 times in a season.

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Once every 500 hours of operation. My stove keeps count of the hours. last year two cleanings, tis year much colder , maybe three

UpStateNY said:

Every two weeks when I burned 3 tons of Green Supremes last year.

This year, I am burning Pacific Clean fire and have not cleaned the stove yet.

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Are you burning the softies or hardwood Cleanfire pellets?

Maybe twice once in the fall and another big clean mid season, 15 years ago was my first year i didnt know so when i relit in the fall the pellets wouldnt drop, otherwise weekly ash area cleanings
Big clean is moving stove out of fireplace, cleaning pipes, removing firebrick and cleaning back there.

What I consider a major cleaning is taking the stove outside and give it a good blow with compressed air pulling and cleaning the blowers and brushing/vacuuming passageways, pulling burn pot assembly, cleaning vent pipe etc. And put it back together with new gaskets. I do that annually unless I have a issue

Brush vent pipe monthly,vac, leaf blower thingy

1or 2 times a week (wednesday and sunday )I shut it down, vac/brush passageways,scrape burn pot, clean glass, and wire brush the front of the bottom auger tube area With a rotary tool to reduce the notorious squeaking when' carbon builds up.

Daily I scoop excess ash out of the pan/pot while the stove is running and do a quick glass clean with a dry rag

Quad MVAE gets ash vacuumed out of firebox (including back plate) and ash pan once each week, plus scraping of burn pot and glass cleaning. Autoclean function moves most ash to pan, so very handy. Takes ~ 5 minutes.

Whitfield Quest gets firebox vacuumed out every other day as almost nothing ever makes it to ash pan. Glass cleaning once/week.

Both stoves get more thorough cleaning once/month with removal of back plate from MVAE, fake firebrick from Quest. Area behind these cleaned with vac and brush, small hose pushed into channels and moved around to get these as clean as possible. Then bottle brush and more with small hose. Ash collectors on bottom of exhaust tees also cleaned. About 30 min/stove.

Both stoves torn down for full cleaning each year when season over, with blowers removed and new gaskets, all pipes cleaned with brush, motors oiled.

Ps50

About every 2, sometimes 3 weeks

Hit the pot with the brush and shop vac it out

Full cleaning once per ton give or take a few bags.
Basic burn pot scrape each day

Every Sunday Vac, scrape , brush , clean glass ,empty ash (15-20 mins )
Every ton all above plus venting ( add 10 mins )
End of year all above plus blowers pulled and cleaned ( new gaskets ) the air hose to get what I missed and a fresh coat of paint on firebox ( 2 hours includes moving stove outside )
Have 3 stoves so I'm pretty good at time management ! Lol

I vac the MVAE once a week, and clean behind the plate and in the exhaust channels every other week. Major cleaning at the end of the heating season.
I vac the PDVC every other bag of pellets. I have to clean the plate at the bottom of the fire pot every time I light it.

Dgopetactical said:

What I consider a major cleaning is taking the stove outside

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Wow...that's hardcore. I had no idea people were bringing pellet stoves outside to clean them. I think my Harman P68 weighs over 300lbs, so I think I'll just continue to clean it where it is.

Once a week full cleaning. End of season tear down.

HOW MANY TIMES A HEATING SEASON DO YOU CLEAN YOUR STOVE ?

As and when needed in season, and at the end of the season a full strip down and clean of everything, exhaust too, repaint where needed, and new gaskets on the blower(s), and door(s) and the firepot.

MtnXfreeride said:

I must be doing something wrong. My glass is greyed about 50% over after 3 bags, and I clean the burn pot every 2 bags because there is a buildup of a giant chunk of ash. Basically every other day it gets a decent cleaning and every week a in depth cleanning.. too bad we dont have access to good pellets where i live in maine.

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Let's see I live in Maine, operate a bucket of parts stove, burn Maine pellets, generally clean my stove once a week, do a more extensive cleaning about every ton.

I can go over 26 bags before I just can't stand to look at the stove if need be.

Why don't you start a thread about what causes clinkers and how can I prevent them, be certain to tell us what stove you have?