Hi All,
This past year, I noticed that many of the walls in our house are slightly sooty, esp in the rooms that are closest to the stove.
I've owned the stove for about 6 years now, great unit overall - Every season in the fall, I open the bottom of the simpson flue I have (the bottom tee cap) and blow out all the pipe with my air compressor - I try to keep the burn pots, etc clean before every morning when I restart it for the day... I have an ash vac for this purpose.
Anyways, my question is, is there an easy way to do a deeper cleaning on this unit, without having to take it from the wall, etc? - can I just blow air though places, etc? I'm assuming that the black soot I'm seeing on the walls is a result of never getting the internal stuff clean over a 6 year period? - or is the problem more related to using a lesser quality pellet - Home Depot had them for Cheap last year, but I know that they were not near the quality I was using (produced more per pound, etc..) plus wife didn't like the smell as much...
I'll stick to better pellets this year, even though they are $300+ a ton now for the good stuff, it's worth it... I use about 2 and 1/2 tons a season, but we heat the whole 1500sq ft house with this unit most of the time, until the temp drops to below 15ish... then I use it, and the oil furnace, but mostly pellets.
Couple of folks on here that have the same stove - I guess I need to adjust the settings on it for a "cleaner burn"?
Thanks,
Bob
This past year, I noticed that many of the walls in our house are slightly sooty, esp in the rooms that are closest to the stove.
I've owned the stove for about 6 years now, great unit overall - Every season in the fall, I open the bottom of the simpson flue I have (the bottom tee cap) and blow out all the pipe with my air compressor - I try to keep the burn pots, etc clean before every morning when I restart it for the day... I have an ash vac for this purpose.
Anyways, my question is, is there an easy way to do a deeper cleaning on this unit, without having to take it from the wall, etc? - can I just blow air though places, etc? I'm assuming that the black soot I'm seeing on the walls is a result of never getting the internal stuff clean over a 6 year period? - or is the problem more related to using a lesser quality pellet - Home Depot had them for Cheap last year, but I know that they were not near the quality I was using (produced more per pound, etc..) plus wife didn't like the smell as much...
I'll stick to better pellets this year, even though they are $300+ a ton now for the good stuff, it's worth it... I use about 2 and 1/2 tons a season, but we heat the whole 1500sq ft house with this unit most of the time, until the temp drops to below 15ish... then I use it, and the oil furnace, but mostly pellets.
Couple of folks on here that have the same stove - I guess I need to adjust the settings on it for a "cleaner burn"?
Thanks,
Bob
