What a difference a cleaning makes

[cmonSTART]

I just cleaned the chimney and stove pipe tonight and wow what a difference in the way the stove burns. Every few months when the stove seems sluggish and starving for air I clean it out and it comes back to the way it should be.

 

[BrotherBart]

I just cleaned the chimney and stove pipe tonight and wow what a difference in the way the stove burns. Every few months when the stove seems sluggish and starving for air I clean it out and it comes back to the way it should be.

Huh? Every few months you clean it out? Is this not the stove that you lit up for the first time on the second of this month?

 

[tradergordo]

Must have meant every few weeks.
What are you burnin' man?
Burn hot and you'll never have to clean it.

 

[cmonSTART]

Yes, it's the same stove. Remember I've heated with wood for a couple years now (we bought our house a couple years ago). Before we had an Englander 12FP, which is a non-epa stove, so it generated some soot and I didn't clean the chimney when I installed the 30. Also, I think I've had a couple smokey fires in the 30-NC while learning to use it.

Anyway, this stove is a bit different with a clean chimney. I have the air control closed more than I had and have a very nice secondary going right now. I should get some good overnight performance from this.

How often should I expect to clean my chimney with this stove?

 

[begreen]

How often should I expect to clean my chimney with this stove?

Depends on the wood (seasoned well or not), the stack (interior or exterior, insulated or uninsulatated), and the user's burning method.

 

[eernest4]

Clean chiminy & flue pipes at the begining of each heating season as a minimum.
Some wood burners do a mid heating season clean out also.

 

[JimWalshin845]

Depends on the wood (seasoned well or not), the stack (interior or exterior, insulated or uninsulatated), and the user's burning method.

Yep... your stove will talk to you... listen to it.

We clean it at the end of the heating season (besides at least twice during the heating season) , this way you should not get any unpleasant odors in the house during those hot humid days of summer. Also, I read someplace that creosote and soot have some corrosives so why let them sit on the metal all summer long?