need cleaning tips for a quad cb 1200

[smg64ct]

I need some cleaning tips for my Quadra-fire CB 1200 free standing pellet stove. I need to know if I'm over cleaning it. I get a little nervous when it's dirty. I shut the stove down everyday for about a 1/2 hour. I scrape and clean the firepot everyday and I also vacuum out the little holes. I also clean the thermo coupler. The manual says to scrape the firepot everyday. When I clean it I don't get any big clinkers but there is a little carbon buildup. Is it important to vacuum those holes everyday? Any tips you can give me would be a big help.

Thanks for the help.

 

[begreen]

I need some cleaning tips for my Quadra-fire CB 1200 free standing pellet stove. I need to know if I'm over cleaning it. I get a little nervous when it's dirty. I shut the stove down everyday for about a 1/2 hour. I scrape and clean the firepot everyday and I also vacuum out the little holes. I also clean the thermo coupler. The manual says to scrape the firepot everyday. When I clean it I don't get any big clinkers but there is a little carbon buildup. Is it important to vacuum those holes everyday? Any tips you can give me would be a big help.

Thanks for the help.

Well, yes, unless you are burning corn or some poor fuel, that sounds like way too much. Burning a bag a day, I would clean the insert version of this stove every other week. And it always ran just fine. In all 5 years the only tool I used to scrape the burn pot was my hand and the vacuum nozzle.

 

[MountainStoveGuy]

cleaning out the ingitor port is important. to me, it sounds like your way overcleaning, but heck as a pellet stove dealerthere is no such thing as a homeowner cleaning it to much.

 

[smg64ct]

Thanks for the input guys. I thought I was cleaning it too much to.