Hello, Wise Ones!
*This year* I'm going to try to be slightly less compulsive about cleaning my stove. Sometimes the deep burn pot on the Napoleon simply needs to be dumped through the baffles into the ash pan. Doing so would enable us to get a clean burn without cutting the stove off for several hours just to empty the burn pot. We would shut the stove down, let it cool completely and vacuum it out well every 2-3 days. We are expecting a cold winter this year by various accounts. I would like to be able to keep the stove up and running 24/7 for a few days at a time during particularly cold spells.
The deep burn pot in the Napoleon is not overly tolerant of ashy pellets. We've noticed that it burns even different shipments of the same brand of pellets differently from time to time- and yes the stove is kept whistle clean. Most often we vacuum out the firebox, dump the burn pot, vacuum underneath the burn pot, vacuum off the heat exchanger tubes and dump the ash pan every day or every other day, depending on how much ash the particular pellets are producing. STOP LAUGHING AND POINTING I ADMITTED THAT I AM COMPULSIVE ABOUT THE STOVE (and mebbe a few other things as well...) We have a direct vent (good ground clearance) that is vacuumed out by extending the extra long Shop Vac hose all the way up into the stove from outside of the house at least once a week. The stove is completely broken down and cleaned and maintained (gaskets replaced as necessary) after each ton burned. I say all of this to allay concerns that a dirty stove is yielding burn pot issues.
If I wanted to open the stove and dump the burn pot, what would you recommend? Is an Ove Glove adequate or would I need a welder's glove? Or is this just a bad idea?
*This year* I'm going to try to be slightly less compulsive about cleaning my stove. Sometimes the deep burn pot on the Napoleon simply needs to be dumped through the baffles into the ash pan. Doing so would enable us to get a clean burn without cutting the stove off for several hours just to empty the burn pot. We would shut the stove down, let it cool completely and vacuum it out well every 2-3 days. We are expecting a cold winter this year by various accounts. I would like to be able to keep the stove up and running 24/7 for a few days at a time during particularly cold spells.
The deep burn pot in the Napoleon is not overly tolerant of ashy pellets. We've noticed that it burns even different shipments of the same brand of pellets differently from time to time- and yes the stove is kept whistle clean. Most often we vacuum out the firebox, dump the burn pot, vacuum underneath the burn pot, vacuum off the heat exchanger tubes and dump the ash pan every day or every other day, depending on how much ash the particular pellets are producing. STOP LAUGHING AND POINTING I ADMITTED THAT I AM COMPULSIVE ABOUT THE STOVE (and mebbe a few other things as well...) We have a direct vent (good ground clearance) that is vacuumed out by extending the extra long Shop Vac hose all the way up into the stove from outside of the house at least once a week. The stove is completely broken down and cleaned and maintained (gaskets replaced as necessary) after each ton burned. I say all of this to allay concerns that a dirty stove is yielding burn pot issues.
If I wanted to open the stove and dump the burn pot, what would you recommend? Is an Ove Glove adequate or would I need a welder's glove? Or is this just a bad idea?