Do you wear a dust mask while cleaning your stove?

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I use a $40 shopvac with the finest filter that you can buy, $10 for sheetrock dust. I also use the sock on the output and I wear a mask, one of those ones with the double filters on the outside. I don't wear gloves though.

-S
 
From the Harmon Advance cleaning manual:

"Wear a dust mask.
This is important! Don't be foolhardy
when it comes to protecting your
lungs. Wear a mask. Professional
chimney sweeps do so and for good
reason."
 
I wonder how long it will take for pellet stove owners who DO NOT READ THEIR MANUALS AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS to start filing suits against stove manufactorers when they get sick or have lung damage. Let's not ruin the pellet stove industry and get a bunch of new laws thrown at us.
 
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