Cleaned my wood stove liner for the first time the other day.

[stanleyjohn]

Cleaned my wood stove for the first time the other day with a sooteater! And this is what came out

 

[Z33]

About how much wood did you run through it before the cleaning?

 

[Fire Breathing Dragon]

Have you tried cleaning with a brush before? I'm curious if the sooteater perhaps works better than an nylon brush.

 

[xman23]

Looks like mine, which is done ever year. If you can, use a mirror and a light a look up the chimney you should be able to see the condition. The issue is the cap screen. if you got the soot eater up into the cap it may have done something. Probably better than the brush cleaning the cap screen, but you need to know if it's getting plugged up.

 

[bholler]

Did you pull the combustion chamber apart and clean it? i know most of the time with harmans when you clean allot of crap can fall int there and cause problems. When you do pull it apart be careful those parts are fragile and expensive.

 

[stanleyjohn]

I have it done once a year and burn between 2 to 3 cords of seasoned wood.The harman has a damper that when opened it blocks off the afterburner chamber allowing all the soot to fall into the front part of the stove.This was my first time year cleaning it! Before it was done yearly for about 150 a pop.I dont really know what kind of job it did when it got to the cap but from a visual from binoculars the cap looks clear! I will know better on the first burn.

 

[bholler]

The harman has a damper that when opened it blocks off the afterburner chamber allowing all the soot to fall into the front part of the stove.

not completely no it still needs taken apart

 

[stanleyjohn]

been cleaning it this way since i got the stove 6 yrs ago and the afterburner still working very well.I Wont take apart unless i really need to do that.

 

[bholler]

been cleaning it this way since i got the stove 6 yrs ago and the afterburner still working very well.I Wont take apart unless i really need to do that.

Really hasn't been cleaned in 6 years wow. Most i work on get plugged up with fly ash in 2 or 3

 

[begreen]

I have it done once a year and burn between 2 to 3 cords of seasoned wood.

^ It sounds like he has been doing it this way for the past 6 yrs. ^

 

[bholler]

^ It sounds like he has been doing it this way for the past 6 yrs. ^

yes i am just very surprised that the after burner is not clogged yet. on the ones we service we clean it every year and usually take out a decent amount of fly ash and dirt from the chimney that fell down in there