Quick sweep on Friday - pleasant surprise

[bag of hammers]

Got to my place a couple hours early on Friday. I had a couple hours of daylight left, and it was a cold day but sunny and calm so the sun had warmed the place up inside significantly. I figured I'd take advantage of the situation and go up on the roof and run the brush down the chimney before lighting the stove for the weekend.

I pulled the top baffle bricks and laid them on the bottom of the firebox and went up to sweep. 3 runs of the brush and I called it done. I don't think there was enough powdery soot (top of the 3 back baffle bricks) to fill more than the palm of my hand. Pretty good for almost 5 - 1/2 months of weekend burning and a cold winter, IMHO. Nice feeling to see a clean chimney. Also I remembered to pull the flue temp probe this time around... .

 

[Heatsource]

I've swept quite a few 2200's, very clean burning stoves
except for one customer who burned green wood for her overnight

 

[bag of hammers]

Thanks Dave - I appreciate the sanity check. So far (3 years of weekend burning in the 2200, with long burning seasons) it's been doing really well in that regard. I think this is the best year so far for soot buildup.

I get a bit worried from the little bit of smoke I get on a reload - not sure what I'd do (stress out probably) with a load of green wood.

This is proving to be a nice stove...

 

[etiger2007]

Thats great hammers!