outside their home yet ? Wondering if i'm the only guy with so much caked on soot so early in the burn season Muss
Anyone clean out their outside exhaust vent
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I cleaned mine out from last season muss....but havent since burning this season. I'll check it come Dec. or Jan. though to make sure. Not sure why you have so much caked on so early.
I just did Saturday! I was just checking the siding and decided to go take a look, banged lightly on the cover and man I was surprised what started coming out. Reached my hand in and there was a think layer in there so I pulled out the hot ash vac and the attachments and went to work. Took about 10 minutes, but I was very surprised on the amount of ash in there already.
How much are you talking when you say "so much"?
Usually pull the cap on the T after a couple tons
but there's never more than a measured cup full
in the bottom of the T at that point.
I run the brush up the vent at the end of the season.
Usually pull the cap on the T after a couple tons
but there's never more than a measured cup full
in the bottom of the T at that point.
I run the brush up the vent at the end of the season.
it was hard to tell for me a lot got kissed to the wind, there wasn't much left in the vac at the end though
zeta do you run the brush from the outside then go and clean the stove from inside? i figured some ash must get pushed back in? first year with the stove so not sure in what order things are done.
Kast, I don't have a horizontal install..
my vent goes from the stove into a
Cleanout T, then all the way up the chimney
topped with a rain cap. (see pics and see stove in avatar)
I remove the T cap, vac that out,
then run a nylon 4" brush 12ft up.
I keep the vac running directly below
the T so it catches everything that
comes down. I continue to run the
brush until nothing more falls down.
my vent goes from the stove into a
Cleanout T, then all the way up the chimney
topped with a rain cap. (see pics and see stove in avatar)
I remove the T cap, vac that out,
then run a nylon 4" brush 12ft up.
I keep the vac running directly below
the T so it catches everything that
comes down. I continue to run the
brush until nothing more falls down.
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hi cast and muss mine is in my basement about 5 ' pipe going up basement wall, through foundation with proper amount above grade.i just undo 45 elbow you can hear pellet brush bottom out where it enters stove i just put shop vac hose in and same thing hear it bottom out easy clean no mess in house all outside. 
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