preparing stove for chimney cleaning

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Do I need to make any special preparations in my stove before cleaning the stainless steel chimney? It does have a light accumulation. Do I just let the stuff drop down into my stove and then vacuum out the stove? I have a Lodi Endeavor with double wall stove pipe straight up to the chimney which then goes straight up through the roof for a total of about 15 feet of pipe to clean. I will be sure to have the by-pass open but can think of no way to contain the mess except by keeping the door tightly closed.

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
If it's anything like my Lopi Liberty, and you really want to do a thorough cleaning, you'll need to remove the baffle bricks above the secondary air tubes. There should be some pretty good instructions in the back of your owner's manual. (In the Liberty this can be done while leaving the secondary tubes in place). Otherwise, a bunch of whatever you sweep down the flue is going to collect on top of that baffle...even with the bypass open. If the accumulation in your flue is really light, then I s'pose just opening the bypass and sweeping would do the trick. Rick
 
I also remove the baffle bricks and board above the air tubes, in preparation. I know chimney sweeps are careful, but I am over protective about my baby!
 
I also remove to baffles on my Regency, it takes about (30 seconds). Put a pan in the stove to catch the soot. I would not want to use a vacuum on fine soot.

Also remove any probe thermometers BEFORE cleaning, :red:
 
A belated thank you for your suggestions. I hadn't known about removing the firebrick, and putting a pan in the stove to catch the debris sounds like a great idea. But how do I get everything out if I don't use my old shopvac?
 
U can use the shopvac for your cleanup,,,just make sure you have a filter that can collect fine dust particles, should be easy for ya to find one. Please dont attempt to vacuum without a filter,,,you will cover the inside of your house in dust, good luck. Its a easy process to do.
 
Thanks for this. My shopvac does have a filter and I've used it before inside the stove with no problems, although I never use it to suck up all the ashes.
 
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