What do you do with the empty bags?

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jng518

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Jan 5, 2009
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Washington County,NY
I use some as garbage bags. And after cutting off the top and bottom seam
and the cutting down both side seams I have 2 plastic sheets that I use as
drop cloths when I clean out the stove. Any other ideas? :question:
 
jng518 said:
I use some as garbage bags. And after cutting off the top and bottom seam
and the cutting down both side seams I have 2 plastic sheets that I use as
drop cloths when I clean out the stove. Any other ideas? :question:

Save one to put the rest in, when it gets full save another, etc. Send 'em to the landfill, keep the bag factory in business
 
I've seen the other threads but never noticed the drop-cloth idea before...

Brilliant ! I'm embarrassed I didn't think of that myself... Stove cleaning just got a little less messy just in time for the big Saturday AM routine...

I would love to recycle them but the local trash hauler only takes #1 & #2 and my bags are #7... Grrr...

So I stuff them all inside 1 bag and throw them away...
 
OK. Just finished my weekly cleaning, and here's what I do: hit off button, get dressed and shovel a path from the garage to the back door, which is next to the stove. I place the Crafstman shop vac w/ the standard filter out there, in the ON position, and put the hose and the power cord next to the door. I make sure there is an unopened bag of pellets inside. Stir up the ash with my favorite stove tool, a 12 inch gasket scraper, from Sears or an auto parts store. While the stove cools, I scrape the area around the burnpot, wearing my second favorite stove tool, an LED headlamp. I look like a geek, but who cares? I can see inside, where I need to. Oh, I am wearing rubber gloves by now. Around this time the blower shuts down, and I start to vac and scrape. I use the unoopened bag of pellets to hold the door as closed as possible. I have never had a problem, nor do I care, about dust or fires, becasue my 9 year old vac is outside, and if it catches fire, I'll have an excuse to buy the new one I've been looking at. That one I MIGHT be more careful with. Keep in mind that I have been doing this for 4 years. I would NOT use a vac inside that was not made for this work. Also, my combustion air blower sqeals for about a half hour, and then starts to quiet down. I have taken apart, cleaned, lubricated, adjusted, and while I can change the sound pitch by pressing on the motor, and loosening or tightening the mounting, it still sounds like metal on metal until it is up to temp. I tried Mike's airwash hole thing with no change.
 
oops! wrong thread! YIKES!
 
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