This morning we had a small creosote fire in the stove pipe of our Vermont Castings wood stove and used our dry chemical fire extinguisher to put it out (we stuck the hose up the pipe and shot it up there).
We are definitely going to have it inspected even though we see no visible damage, but my concern is that the internet says that the chemical in the fire extinguisher (monoammonium phosphate) needs to be cleaned up with a baking soda paste. How would we clean inside of the stove pipe with that? It could take a few weeks for a chimney sweep to get to us, so I'm deeply concerned that the inside stove pipe is just corroding because of the chemical.
We are definitely going to have it inspected even though we see no visible damage, but my concern is that the internet says that the chemical in the fire extinguisher (monoammonium phosphate) needs to be cleaned up with a baking soda paste. How would we clean inside of the stove pipe with that? It could take a few weeks for a chimney sweep to get to us, so I'm deeply concerned that the inside stove pipe is just corroding because of the chemical.