Chimney cleaning results

[red oak]

With the temps hitting the 90s now in Virginia, I'm going to hazard a guess and say the burning season's over, so I got up on the roof and cleaned the chimney on Memorial Day. I looked at it from below and there was no creosote at all on the stainless steel liner as far up as I could see. There was some buildup at the top of the chimney when I looked down while on the roof, but it didn't seem to be a lot and was really flaky. So I jammed the brush down through and after one pass the liner was clean as could be. I gathered up the junk from the chimney, and swept a few ashes up from around the stove, and put it in a bucket, pictured below.



So that's all the buildup in my chimney for a complete season of burning, plus some debris from around the stove. My father in law was there while I was doing this and he was pretty impressed. I'm sure it's more than a lot of the burners on here, but much less than I used to get - yet another benefit of getting ahead and burning drier wood!

 

[Locust Post]

Alrighty then....stove and chimney cleaned,no brat kids for 3 months, all set.......get back to your beach chair

 

[red oak]

Alrighty then....stove and chimney cleaned,no brat kids for 3 months, all set.......get back to your beach chair

Sounds like a plan!

 

[bogydave]

Now that is one of the reasons why burning dry wood is important.
Great example of clean burning dry wood !

I think you're right, your burn season is done

 

[Jags]

You must have respectable burning habits. Well done.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Looks great red oak.

I too have declared our burning season is over but have the cleaning to do yet. I'm in no hurry either.

 

[JoeyD]

Good for you! I need to get mine cleaned but the either weather or commitments have been keeping me from getting it done. I did check it in April and I hope I have results similar to yours.

 

[Paulywalnut]

Hope mine is the same. Way to burn clean!