Too much creosote?

[Molsonc1]

Hello everyone. I just finished sweeping my chimney and firebox and the end result was 3 cups of creosote. This was my first year burning wood in a new Pacific energy zc fp 25. I burnt mostly maple, beech and some oak. Is 3 cups alot? Am I putting my house and family at risk? Should I be doing a mid season clean? TIA

 

[bholler]

Hello everyone. I just finished sweeping my chimney and firebox and the end result was 3 cups of creosote. This was my first year burning wood in a new Pacific energy zc fp 25. I burnt mostly maple, beech and some oak. Is 3 cups alot? Am I putting my house and family at risk? Should I be doing a mid season clean? TIA

First off that isn't really creosote. And regardless 3 cups is in no way excessive.

 

[kennyp2339]

Nice job burning, that looks more like fly ash than anything, excessive creosote would be something like 1.5 gallons coming out of a standard 15ft chimney.
I'll admit here, back when I was living with my parents as a teenager my dad and I would cut up what ever we saw in the woods and throw it in the insert, little to any care on how damp the wood was, they called the chimney sweep to do a cleaning cause things were getting pretty sluggish and he pulled out about 7 gallons of crap from the 25ft chimney (almost plugged towards the top) thankfully there was no chimney fire, but that got my wheels turning about dry wood at a fairly young age.

 

[Woodsplitter67]

this is not even close to stage 2. if you had black flaks thats stage 2 if it were all stage 2 and more like 12 cups I'd worry.. yours is similar to mine a graphite colored powder...your doing well

 

[Ctwoodtick]

You’re burning very clean and safely based on that picture.

 

[Bushels20]

Well done.

 

[Woody5506]

That's how it should look. Burn on!