Hexa Fox
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Hey guys so long story short I have been doing this for awhile now but now the responsibility has become solely mine. So I started burning this year already and noticed a good deal of smoke coming back into the house. So I checked the chimney and made the mistake of brining a floodlight rather than a straight beam light. So I could only see a few panels and they looked very clean. I suspected my problem was with the wood stove. So today I reached up into the baffle and got a whole handful of stuff. That is when I realized I would need to move the woodstove.
My father was adamant about cleaning it every single year, even though sometimes from year to year things seemed to be clean. So I was hoping you guys would have some feedback for me, because upon taking this stuff apart it looks like I have not cleaned it in years. We did clean it last year. The only thing I changed this year is that I got lazy and I have been using pieces of "resin wood" and a butane torch to get my fire going. Could this cause this type of buildup or did I just burn heavier than I thought?
My father always cleaned these parts of the woodstove with a putty knife. So I see mixed reviews of the Soot Eaters people have been attaching to drills. I think they would really help me out here with the woodstove if they fit in the pipes. Can you use them on everything? Like the hole between the woodstove and chimney, the woodstove pipe etc? I would love to hear from you guys that bought the Soot Eaters and how you like them.
I know this post has already gotten long but we have also had a problem with soot getting all over stuff around the house. Especially right around the woodstove and it definitely seems worse than other people experience. We have to dust all the time while burning throughout the winter. We recently changed the gasket around the door but it did not seem to help. Also the door itself seems to be a little loose. My father said to leave it alone because trying to tighten it might break the bolts and create a bigger problem. We also do not cement around the woodstove pipe either. Thoughts?
Before this gets any longer I will leave it as is for now. I have always gotten awesome feedback from this site. You guys just helped me decide on a recent log splitter purchase which I m very thankful for. Definitely want to get this resolved for Winter so that my new log splitter does not go to waste. These are the pipes from the wood stove and the pip that goes out to the chimney by the way. I am probably going to get a better flashlight and inspect the chimney again. I imagine those first few panels may be giving me a bad idea of what the rest looks like.
My father was adamant about cleaning it every single year, even though sometimes from year to year things seemed to be clean. So I was hoping you guys would have some feedback for me, because upon taking this stuff apart it looks like I have not cleaned it in years. We did clean it last year. The only thing I changed this year is that I got lazy and I have been using pieces of "resin wood" and a butane torch to get my fire going. Could this cause this type of buildup or did I just burn heavier than I thought?
My father always cleaned these parts of the woodstove with a putty knife. So I see mixed reviews of the Soot Eaters people have been attaching to drills. I think they would really help me out here with the woodstove if they fit in the pipes. Can you use them on everything? Like the hole between the woodstove and chimney, the woodstove pipe etc? I would love to hear from you guys that bought the Soot Eaters and how you like them.
I know this post has already gotten long but we have also had a problem with soot getting all over stuff around the house. Especially right around the woodstove and it definitely seems worse than other people experience. We have to dust all the time while burning throughout the winter. We recently changed the gasket around the door but it did not seem to help. Also the door itself seems to be a little loose. My father said to leave it alone because trying to tighten it might break the bolts and create a bigger problem. We also do not cement around the woodstove pipe either. Thoughts?
Before this gets any longer I will leave it as is for now. I have always gotten awesome feedback from this site. You guys just helped me decide on a recent log splitter purchase which I m very thankful for. Definitely want to get this resolved for Winter so that my new log splitter does not go to waste. These are the pipes from the wood stove and the pip that goes out to the chimney by the way. I am probably going to get a better flashlight and inspect the chimney again. I imagine those first few panels may be giving me a bad idea of what the rest looks like.