My first year burning for heat. I've got a freestanding woodstove with 6" SS pipe. How often should it be brushed out to clean? Its been running 24/7 for the past three and a half months.
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chimney pipe clean intervals
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I'll second that.
There are different factors involved. The type of wood you are burning and how long that wood has seasoned, not to mention how you burn the stove or how much draft the chimney has.
We put up a new SS chimney in 2007 and have yet to clean it. However, we have a very clean burning stove and very well seasoned wood. I know what the wood is too instead of someone just telling me it is seasoned.
There are different factors involved. The type of wood you are burning and how long that wood has seasoned, not to mention how you burn the stove or how much draft the chimney has.
We put up a new SS chimney in 2007 and have yet to clean it. However, we have a very clean burning stove and very well seasoned wood. I know what the wood is too instead of someone just telling me it is seasoned.
I have been burning a long time, only about 3 years with the new epa insert, I still check it every month or so weather permitting. I cleaned mine for the first time this season a few weeks ago. It really did not need it but I was already there with the brushes.
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