Vent Cleaning

[TimfromMA]

My stove vent is as about as simple as you can get. A single 45 degree bend then straight out through the wall.

Up to this point, I've been scraping off the silicone sealant around the outsdie of the vent, disconnecting it from the stove and pushing it out through the wall far enough to get a brush down it.

My question is, is there a better way to clean it that doesn't involve disassembling it?

Can i just shove my ash vac hose up the vent from the outside? Will this clean it sufficiently?

 

[Enigma869]

I have a similar installation, and all I do is reverse my shop van and blow the air (from the inside) through the vent. I don't know if it's a perfect system, but I watch it as it's being done, and it blows a whole lot of junk out of the vent pipe. I used to run the brush through from the outside, until it occurred to me that I was probably just pushing all the ash back inside, which isn't really what I was looking to accomplish.

 

[TimfromMA]

I have a similar installation, and all I do is reverse my shop van and blow the air (from the inside) through the vent. I don't know if it's a perfect system, but I watch it as it's being done, and it blows a whole lot of junk out of the vent pipe. I used to run the brush through from the outside, until it occurred to me that I was probably just pushing all the ash back inside, which isn't really what I was looking to accomplish.

Your method would still require me to disassemble the vent from the stove which is what I'd like to avoid if I can.

 

[DneprDave]

I have a pellet stove in my garage that is direct vented, it is just a two foot vent pipe. I put the leaf blower suction over the end of the exhaust, it cleans it real well.

Dave

 

[DAKSY]

I have a similar installation, and all I do is reverse my shop van and blow the air (from the inside) through the vent. I don't know if it's a perfect system, but I watch it as it's being done, and it blows a whole lot of junk out of the vent pipe. I used to run the brush through from the outside, until it occurred to me that I was probably just pushing all the ash back inside, which isn't really what I was looking to accomplish.

On the Harmans, you can access the inner vent pathway behind the ashpan & the combustion fan cover. You will want to remove the ESP from the rear first, to avoid damage to it from the brushing action. Mine are both up & out & I run the brush thru the stove to the tee & then thru the tee & up the vertical section to the jet cap.

 

[Hoot23]

X2. If yo can access your vent from inside the stove, run a soot eater through it, hook up the leaf vac and suck all the ash out. On your set-up you should still be able to remove the term cap and run the soot eater through the vent. And then do the leaf vac.

 

[chken]

My stove vent is as about as simple as you can get. A single 45 degree bend then straight out through the wall.

Up to this point, I've been scraping off the silicone sealant around the outsdie of the vent, disconnecting it from the stove and pushing it out through the wall far enough to get a brush down it.

My question is, is there a better way to clean it that doesn't involve disassembling it?

Can i just shove my ash vac hose up the vent from the outside? Will this clean it sufficiently?

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With such a short vent, I wonder if you have to clean it more than once a year?

 

[TimfromMA]

Even once a year is a PITA with the method I currently use.

BTW It needs a cleaning every ton. I let it go more than 2 tons this time and it was quite filthy.

 

[chken]

In that case, I'd just run a lint eater from the outside, and then hook up a leaf blower. No different than a regular vent clean out. No need to disassemble the pipe. It just looked to me that without a Tee anywhere, and no vertical pipe, you might not have too much to clean, but I guess I was wrong.