I haven't posted hear in quite some time. But thought this might help someone out if they were on the fence about cleaning their stove.
I have a Enviro Maxx and have had it for 6 years. I love this stove. It heats my large cape very well even though it's in the basement.
According to some people I don't treat my stove very well. LOL I run it non stop from mid october to mid april. With an a quick cleaning every other month. Which includes a brush and a leaf vac. I tend to pay more attention to the flue pipe than the stove.
This year like most I've burned a lot of pellets and most have been green supremes from lows and HD and a bunch from Tractor Supply and some MWP fro the local agway. The stove was do for a cleaning so I got out the leaf vac and the flue brush and did the usual cleaning, vac out the stove and all was good.
A couple of days later I got a ton of NWP and started to burn them. I noticed that the flame was lazy and check the burn pot. It was half full. So I shut down the stove and cleaned it out. Next day same thing. I'm like what the hey these pellets are awful. cleaned out the burn pot and restart the stove. Next day I came home from work and the house smelled smokey so i shut down the stove and when it cooled down I opened it up to find that the burn pot was full of hard ash and the pellets were over flowing into the ash bin and burning in the bin NOT GOOD.
Well I kept blaming the pellets until I took the stove apart to find every nook and cranny was filled with ash. The stove couldn't breath even though the flue was clean. So I spent 3 hours ripping the stove apart and cleaning everything even dusted off all the electrical with a paint brush. I put the stove back together and fired it off. What a surprise it was working 100 time better. I guess after 6 years I was getting lazy and instead of looking into the real problem I was just blaming it on the pellets.
Mark
I have a Enviro Maxx and have had it for 6 years. I love this stove. It heats my large cape very well even though it's in the basement.
According to some people I don't treat my stove very well. LOL I run it non stop from mid october to mid april. With an a quick cleaning every other month. Which includes a brush and a leaf vac. I tend to pay more attention to the flue pipe than the stove.
This year like most I've burned a lot of pellets and most have been green supremes from lows and HD and a bunch from Tractor Supply and some MWP fro the local agway. The stove was do for a cleaning so I got out the leaf vac and the flue brush and did the usual cleaning, vac out the stove and all was good.
A couple of days later I got a ton of NWP and started to burn them. I noticed that the flame was lazy and check the burn pot. It was half full. So I shut down the stove and cleaned it out. Next day same thing. I'm like what the hey these pellets are awful. cleaned out the burn pot and restart the stove. Next day I came home from work and the house smelled smokey so i shut down the stove and when it cooled down I opened it up to find that the burn pot was full of hard ash and the pellets were over flowing into the ash bin and burning in the bin NOT GOOD.
Well I kept blaming the pellets until I took the stove apart to find every nook and cranny was filled with ash. The stove couldn't breath even though the flue was clean. So I spent 3 hours ripping the stove apart and cleaning everything even dusted off all the electrical with a paint brush. I put the stove back together and fired it off. What a surprise it was working 100 time better. I guess after 6 years I was getting lazy and instead of looking into the real problem I was just blaming it on the pellets.
Mark