Blaze king princess 32 creosote in the fire box

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MichiganMan82

New Member
Mar 16, 2025
19
Michigan
So yesterday I decided to start getting the stove around for fall and the burning season. Im also new to blaze king stoves. I purchased my stove and had it installed back in the early spring. I had 6 to 8 fires in that time..now I didnt have a constant fire for days on end. Anyway, I opened the stove to clean the glass and notices some good size globs of creosote in the fire box and heavy creosote on the glass of the door. Am I burning the stove too cold? I tried to keep the flue temp to 300 to 350..the stove never really felt like it out tons of heat during the times I fired it. I also know a couple of fires I had. I should have let the wood catch better before shutting it down. Any advice would be great.
 
Most likely reason for the creosote is wet wood. Wet wood makes it much more difficult to keep your temps up. Did you ever check the moisture content? If you bought the wood last fall to burn last winter I can pretty much guarantee that wet wood is your issue. If you still have some of that same wood it will be much better this year.
 
Most likely reason for the creosote is wet wood. Wet wood makes it much more difficult to keep your temps up. Did you ever check the moisture content? If you bought the wood last fall to burn last winter I can pretty much guarantee that wet wood is your issue. If you still have some of that same wood it will be much better this year.
Yes I checked the moisture content this spring when I got the stove to kinda make sure. It was between 15-18 nothing over 18. Its all dead ash. I think im not letting the reload completely catch as well because I noticed peices of unburned wood still in the fire box. So I dont know. Im doing something wrong.