Today I took the Englander apart and cleaned what seemed like only about a few weeks worth of ash, not much at all since I regularly use the leaf blower and vacuum once a week. Compared to most of you guys I burned very few pellets (1-1/2 tons) but it looks like I could have gone through double that and not worried about this major spring cleaning. The pictures of the blower fan and housing were taken just after I used the leaf blower but didn't touch anything with a brush. After running the brush and other cleaning tools through the entire stove, the leaf blower sucked about the same amount of soot out as a normal cleaning. The burn pot was scraped once before but is looks much better this time since I drilled a few more holes near the sides where the ash was building up.
