Hi,
Everyone here got me up and running last year. I really appreciate the help.
After burning some pretty green wood for the first part of last year, the wood got drier as I went along. I never got around to cleaning my liner last year. When I took the bottom cap off of my liner tee yesterday, I had about a half gallon of black charcoal like substance (creosote?) fall out. It was all loose and at the bottom. There remains a fine grey powder attached to the walls of the liner, but it is much less than I expected.
Does it look like to ya'll that I need to sweep/brush this liner, or not? It doesn't look like enough to catch on fire to me, but I'm inexperienced in these things. I don't have enough room to brush it from the bottom, and I will need to get up on the 35' tall chimney, and remove the chimney cap to do it (no easy task).
On the pic below you can see that I brushed about the bottom 2 feet that I could reach. The rest of the liner has the same grey powder; I can see all the way to the top.
Thanks again,
John
Everyone here got me up and running last year. I really appreciate the help.
After burning some pretty green wood for the first part of last year, the wood got drier as I went along. I never got around to cleaning my liner last year. When I took the bottom cap off of my liner tee yesterday, I had about a half gallon of black charcoal like substance (creosote?) fall out. It was all loose and at the bottom. There remains a fine grey powder attached to the walls of the liner, but it is much less than I expected.
Does it look like to ya'll that I need to sweep/brush this liner, or not? It doesn't look like enough to catch on fire to me, but I'm inexperienced in these things. I don't have enough room to brush it from the bottom, and I will need to get up on the 35' tall chimney, and remove the chimney cap to do it (no easy task).
On the pic below you can see that I brushed about the bottom 2 feet that I could reach. The rest of the liner has the same grey powder; I can see all the way to the top.
Thanks again,
John