Vent cleaning oh so important

[mralias]

Below are pics taken today two weeks after cleaning the same vent clean out. A couple of raps with my hand on the vent pipe and the ash box is almost full. Thank god for this clean out box. This is about 20 bags or so of Fireside Ultra's. Just putting it out there in case you want to take a look at your vent. The last pic is after I vacuumed it out.

 

[hyfire]

How about the rest of the chimney? How many horizontal feet do you have?

 

[Hoot23]

Just did my vent yesterday. Not anywhere close to looking like that

 

[mralias]

How about the rest of the chimney? How many horizontal feet do you have?

3" @14' straight up to the top which is brushed 2 times a year and blown with the ole leaf blower trick. I have a real good draft with no damper control on the stove which may account for why all that ash makes it way up the vent pipe.