Enviro EF3 Cleaning Proceedure with Pics

Hey Guys, decided to take pitty on the 9 year old stove today and give a good cleaning, noticed it was getting Dark Yellow Flame most of the time, so waited till it was 20 Below to tear it apart, lol.One thing i wanted to point out, never run across it myself in any threads is MAKE SURE, to take out the little tray directly below the Heat Exchanger and Remove the Fly Ash, my wife had been doing most of the 2 time/week cleaning and had missed this for couple months, My Bad, maybe i forgot to tell her it was removeable,heh.After 1 hour or more cleaning this stove this morn,completely disassembling it,and scouring it.This thing is really performing now,its just over 12 O,clock position and over 80 in here,minus 5 F outside and dropping to minus 30 F tonite.Glad i did it this Morn..

Also forgot to add, i bought this stove Used from the dealer,was there floor model for 8 years.doubt it ever got a thurough cleaning before i bought it.8 years,said all its had was a convection Fan replaced,assume thats the Fresh air fan,looked newer and shiny..

Be interested to hear how that went for ya Ken..I was going to go to Canadian tire and try to buy one yesterday but decided to hold off till spring,although whern i had the Exhaust fan off,i stuck my fingers out the output tube,and could feel some soot in there,maybe 1/16th of an inch thich,hard to tell really.

ShaneR34,i have yet to see smoke come from my flue yet,don,t even appear to be any when i first start it,weird,trying something diff with the Damper though,think i had been leaving it closed too much all winter.This time after the cleanout, i have left ot almost all the way out continuesly,i see no Heat output diff,and the Glass door looks as clean as it did yesterday morn when i cleaned it,not sure if its damper related, or all the Guck i pulled out of the stove, or both.. Minus 25 cels outside, Plus 28 inside, i'll take it...Burning 2 full Bags/24 hr though, setting is at 2 O,clock.

ya, same here shane on the OAK, i have enough drafts in this 1947 story and a half, theres no shortage of air,lol. One thing i would like to buy though is a point and shoot digital temp guage, see them at canadiantire but there $100, don,t think i need one that bad, but while cleaning the stove i noticed the Exhaust motor was almost too hot to touch,makes me think there bit too much resistance running there,Brushes maybe.When i put it all back together and started it, 1 min later i had a squeal in that motor, thought it was blades possibly scraping slightly, loosened off the mounting screws, didn,t change it.Finally a shot of Multi lube on the motor shaft and it was quiet as could be, maybe i cleaned it so good with the shop vac i sucked the lube off it.. (that don,t sound good does it, lol) Oh well, runnin fine now, prob be lookin at a new Blower motor somewhere down the road.9 years and lord knows how many ton thru it, Guess its to be expected..Those Eastern Embers were the worst pellets i run thru my stove, with ( Cozy Comfy) being a close second.What part of NB? Can,t you find any EnergeX to try? or LG Granules? or Even Green Heat from Ace Hardware, there top 3 i tested for heat output/Cleanliness.

LoL, yeaH ResOps, i did put it back in, this is the second time for removal of the fake Brick panel,as for your question 56 chevtruck, i just bought the stove in Oct 2nd this Fall, it was there in store Demo for past 8 years, they are sales/Installers, but i'm guessing it hadn,t been completely cleaned for a couple or 3 years, just my guess.They couldn,t get me a new Enviro EF3 as they were all sold out, but had just rtemoved this one i got and installed a Maxi in the store in place of it, so not being able to find a stove anywheres in Oct i dished out $1200 can for this one,and they gave me Full Warranty on it since it had not left the store,Old stove, New one was $2695.00 so i figured what the Heck, see if we even like a Pellet stove or not.Jury's still out on that Too, lol.Burnin more Bags then Predicted,and Price increase has put us even with Electric(which we haven,t turned on a Heater yet)But if ya wanna shut the bedroom door for some Ehhh" Privacy, you'll freeze ya Patooter off in matter of Mins,lucky for me 5 mins and i'm back downstairs anyways, lol....Yikes"'