Chimney cleaning today, Hmmmm.......

[WellSeasoned]

Last time I cleaned the chimney was on dec 31st, about 5 weeks ago, and had about 1 cup of black shiny creosote flakes. Today I cleaned again, but the contents were different. Instead of black shiny stuff, I had about a cup of fluffy greyish/blackesh stuff. It petty much seemed only a bunch of fly ash. The only area of shiny flakes was the cap itself and thats it. Is this a clean chimney overall? Is this about what you all get with a clean burn?

 

[begreen]

Sounds like you a dialing it in better. Nice going.

 

[Lumber-Jack]

When you start saying to yourself, "this seems like a lot of work for nothin", then you know your doing good. ;-)

 

[Hass]

lol.

When I swept my chimney, I barely got anything... maybe 1/4-1/2 of a cup. I was thinking to myself this was a waste of time.... Maybe I didn't do it right.
Then I took the sweep out of the bypass area of the stove (bottom up, soot eater), and a bunch of soot fell down... I stuck my hand up in the chimney connector area then I realized I had about 2 cups worth of soot sitting in the bypass part of the stove. I stuck my hand up there and brushed it all down. Boy, that could've been bad if I lit up a fire bypass open with all that soot sitting there! :D

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Sounds good. Fly ash tends to be white. The brown stuff we always called soot. The black is what you don't want.

 

[firefighterjake]

You are improving Young Grasshopper.