This is why ..........

Our end of season cleaning is scheduled for this Friday.

90 degrees here yesterday...A/C is in full gear. Dealer is coming by next Friday for our season end service. Scouting around the local stores for pellets for next winter. Not liking the prices that i'm seeing.

central Mass is supposed to be in the mid 30's tonite

my end of season cleaning will be in october

Haven't done mine either yet. We've ran the AC many days or all week more than once thus far already and now it is 45* here tonight and it was cool today and might hit 64 tomorrow. I am not running the stove BUT I have held off on cleaning it and shutting it down totally for the season also. I don't think I need anymore practice cleaning a pellet stove now.

A little grunge never hurt anyone nor anything really. I'll likely do it this weekend though. I can care less there is a little dry ash laying about for a few. It's a steel machine not a baby with a loaded up diaper. I guess I should start worrying and obsessively troll the internet for some rash monkey butt cream for a pellet stove. NOT!

It'll clean right up and be properly moth balled when there is no chance of temps getting questionable and I get good a ready to do it. LOL! I just hope social services doesn't knock on my door for pellet stove neglect. And NO I do not check the tire pressure on my trucks every morning before I leave for work, but the trucks do get maintained and are well taken care of. I hate problematic machinery but I am also not an OCD anxiety ridden pellet stove slave. Just not my thing. It's a heating device. I maintain it well in due time but refuse to wipe and polish the black off of it.

House was 69 when I got home yesterday afternoon, the skies were gloomy and had been windy all day. Started up both stoves before the sun went down. Frosty this morning and probably the next couple of mornings. Should get solar heating today so turned the thermostat temp way down, but will be turning it back up tonight. Maybe by 4th of July I'll be able to turn them off until fall.

I got home yesterday evening, it was 52 deg, was 62 deg inside, threw a load of pine in the princess, got it ripping, closed her down and let it burn off, doesn't take much to get the house up to 72, which is fine.

bogieb said:

House was 69 when I got home yesterday afternoon, the skies were gloomy and had been windy all day. Started up both stoves before the sun went down. Frosty this morning and probably the next couple of mornings. Should get solar heating today so turned the thermostat temp way down, but will be turning it back up tonight. Maybe by 4th of July I'll be able to turn them off until fall.

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Yup it is that time of year
Got the AC in the bedroom window for the warm days and the stove loaded for the cool nights.
But I love New England weather and will never leave.

120 miles round trip for 1 partial bag of pellets for $15.

Sounds like a bargain for sure.

37 deg. for tomorrow night.... Summer is on the way!

Question regarding end of the year cleaning....

I got my stove at the end of the season and only ran it for about 5-6 weeks. Would you still do a full end of year cleaning, or jus the normal weekly cleaning??

Jags said:

Being new to the game I would suggest a good cleaning (including sweep) and inspection. Doing so will confirm or deny the proper operation of the stove. It is amazing how some folks are taken back when they see the results from a month or so of burning. Everything from clean as a whistle to darn near plugged has been reported and you don't really know where you land until you do a sweep and inspection.

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Okay great, I just called and set up a inspection/cleaning with the dealer I bought the stove from. Appreciate the help.

Next year I will wait till Memorial day weekend or end of May to do final cleaning.[which I just did couple weeks ago]
could have used the stove couple of days/nights this week where the weather did a complete 180...outside Phila area.
yesterday was Raw/windy/rainy.....perfect pellet weather..

20's in Central NH tonight. Coal stove cleaned for season. Oil burner tonight!

The guy is coming on June 10th...Yay! I was able to use the stove the past two days when it dropped to 59 degrees inside the house. Never thought I'd be burning in June. Judging by the site here it's not exactly normal.

Also getting my 4 tons delivered tomorrow. Not looking forward to lugging it all downstairs to the basement...