Do you use an anti creosote spray of some sort in your pellet burner (regularly or intermittently)? Which brand do you use? What are your thoughts?
Anti-Creosote sprays are usually a liquid manganese, and environmentally friendly, as well as non-toxic, not that I recommend drinking the stuff. You can usually find them at big box home stores, or fireplace stores, prices ranging from $8-$20 something depending on the size of the spray bottle.
I use ACS Anti Creo-soot spray especially toward the end of every burn season. I tend to vacuum out my Fahrenheit pellet furnace almost daily when April rolls in, so I soak the inside of the firebox and the exhaust vent inside the furnace with this stuff (probably 30-40 good sprays, until it's dripping within the firebox), after vacuuming, until the bottle is completely gone. Then I go ahead and get a fire going shortly after soaking the inside of the firebox.
Seems to work well - when I use the rotary brush inside my 4" stainless PL vent, the ash loosens up nicely then I use the leaf blower method to pull out the ash and send it into the corn field next to my home during the end-of-season clean-out (whenever it begins to become consistently warm, usually by late April in WNY). All I ever see is white/gray ash, I haven't yet dealt with any nasty creosote build-up in my PL vent.
Anti-Creosote sprays are usually a liquid manganese, and environmentally friendly, as well as non-toxic, not that I recommend drinking the stuff. You can usually find them at big box home stores, or fireplace stores, prices ranging from $8-$20 something depending on the size of the spray bottle.
I use ACS Anti Creo-soot spray especially toward the end of every burn season. I tend to vacuum out my Fahrenheit pellet furnace almost daily when April rolls in, so I soak the inside of the firebox and the exhaust vent inside the furnace with this stuff (probably 30-40 good sprays, until it's dripping within the firebox), after vacuuming, until the bottle is completely gone. Then I go ahead and get a fire going shortly after soaking the inside of the firebox.
Seems to work well - when I use the rotary brush inside my 4" stainless PL vent, the ash loosens up nicely then I use the leaf blower method to pull out the ash and send it into the corn field next to my home during the end-of-season clean-out (whenever it begins to become consistently warm, usually by late April in WNY). All I ever see is white/gray ash, I haven't yet dealt with any nasty creosote build-up in my PL vent.
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