Cleaned my chimney yesterday

[Jsjac1]

Cleaned my chimney yesterday.
I usually try to do it the week between Christmas and New Year's.
We were all sick for a few weeks.
When I cleaned the chimney I only got about a half a one pound butter tub of creosote.
That is out of a 26 foot class A chimney.

 

[Wildflush]

Looks good mostly powder. How much do you burn?

 

[Sealcove]

Cleaned my chimney yesterday.
I usually try to do it the week between Christmas and New Year's.
We were all sick for a few weeks.
When I cleaned the chimney I only got about a half a one pound butter tub of creosote.
That is out of a 26 foot class A chimney.

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When was it last cleaned? I have 6-8’ of double wall into a similar length of class A. I clean every fall and never get any creosote like the left picture and maybe a similar amount of fine powder like the right picture. That is after a full season burning with 99% of my heat coming from wood (the +- 1% is if I go away).

 

[BillBurns]

I cleaned my flue yesterday too. I got a little bit of soot out of the pipe, but nothing bad at all. I clean it every month too tho.

 

[Jsjac1]

I have burned 3 to 3½ cords of wood so far.
I cleaned it at the end of the burning season last spring.
We get about 80% of our heat from the wood stove.
We get our hot water off of our oil burner as well. We use 241 gallons of oil last year. I did not think that was bad . Less than a gallon a day.
When I had the wood boiler we bought no oil for sixteen years. But we burned about 10 cords of wood a year.
When we had the Papa Bear stove I used to get a five gallon buck of stuff out of the chimney. Glad those days are gone.

 

[marty319]

This is what I got after 5 cords pine.

 

[ozarkoak]

We get maybe 2 or 3 cups of grey black ash out of our 17-18 foot straight stack during annual clean-out using a soot eater. Burning all hardwood. Amount burned? Depends on the winter, last year and the year before was around 3 cord this year its looking like 2 maybe less if mild temps hold up.