Mid season cleaning

[BrownT10]

I let the stove go cold after a weekend holiday trip and decided to give the stove and chimney a cleaning before firing it back up. I gave it a quick cleaning with the soot eater earlier during warmer temps but this cleaning was from a month straight of burning. The stove and class A pipe had light gray and light brown ash, didn't take much to sweep it away. I pulled the tubes and baffle board and cleaned it. I got the the oversized masonry chimney and ran the soot eater up and ended up catching this, realistically probably double this, amounts to about 2 cups total. A bit shiny but seems to sweep off pretty good. I am pretty happy with that, figured I would get some thoughts from some of the pros here. Obviously a masonry chimney isn't ideal, but it seems to work for me ok. How did I do?

 

[1kzwoman]

Hi there! Can you please provide us with more information. Total height of flue, height of each section type, diameter etc? That way we can help you with your question

 

[BrownT10]

I have a 8x12 clay flue approximately 26-28' in height from the stove pipe. I have about a 4-5' section of single wall pipe that goes into a class a pipe that goes into the clay flue. There is a 90 degree bend into the class A tee section. I am running an osburn 3300 with a basement install.

 

[Ctwoodtick]

Not a pro- but my 2 cents- There is some chunky stuff in that bowl from your cleaning. Not a big amount but some. Sounds like you sweep 2x a year. I’d keep doing that. You’re probably ok, but as long as it’s not a big deal to run a brush up/down the chimney as you have been, I’d just keep it going like that.