Here is a video on how to clean your glass door on your wood stove.
Cleaning your Glass
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husky345 vermont resolute
Feeling the Heat
hey minister. How do you like your myriad. I have just put in the drolet classic and love it
I cant complain it burns for 10 hours easily and radiates like the old stoves of yester - year. Glass stays nice and clean with dry wood. Has good air control. I can snuff the fire if needed some stoves cant do that. So I can control those really raging fires if needed.
As with all these type stoves less than 20% wood moisture is key to getting the heat out of the stoves to get the secondary action working good. I like less than 18% moisture content. More than 20% and your heat output goes way down.
As with all these type stoves less than 20% wood moisture is key to getting the heat out of the stoves to get the secondary action working good. I like less than 18% moisture content. More than 20% and your heat output goes way down.
Smoked
Feeling the Heat
That's different. Windex an a paper towel works for me but mostly just knocking off the dust.before I had a good supply of dry wood, I did have some of the crazy black stuf that was really hard to clean.
Oldman47
Minister of Fire
Ashes mixed with water tend to form somewhat caustic compounds. When you attack organic deposits with a caustic solution the organics are converted to soaps. Think of how they make lye soap here. The method is taking advantage of the way ashes become cleaning type chemicals. Great video since it is more than simple discussion of the chemistry involved, it shows the real world results.
BigCountryNY
Burning Hunk
This is the way I used to clean my folk's wood stove glass when I was growing up and it's the same way I do it today. I'd rather not put chemicals on the glass - maybe paranoid but it just makes me feel better.
firefighterjake
Minister of Fire
Usually a damp wadded piece of newspaper or paper towel is enough to clean off the "glass" . . . if there are any stubborn areas then I dip it in some of the fly ash . . . generally just the wet newspaper or paper towel is enough to clean off most of it most of the time . . . of course it helps to run the stove at the right temp and with well seasoned wood.
BigCountryNY
Burning Hunk
Yep, with modern stoves the air wash system is usually very effective provided you are loading the stove with dry enough wood and running at proper temp as you mentioned. But even still, the "glass" will need to be cleaned every now and again. But if one has to clean it every day, something has gone awry.
mass_burner
Minister of Fire
I don't think all glass is the same either. My 2011 morso cleans up easily with shop towel and little bit of water/cleaner; but my older regency usually requires spot razor blade skimming to get 'er clean.
Smoked
Feeling the Heat
After seeing this and you comments, I am going to try just a damp paper towel first and see what that does. On other thing I will mention. If you do use a spray on cleaner, don't let it run down the glass and get on the gasket. It will "glue" it to the wrong side of the door frame and screw things up badly
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