Fly Ash in Flue Outet?
- 2001Sierra
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- Location: Wynantskill NY, 10 miles from Albany
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Keystoker 90 Chimney vent
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
- Other Heating: Buderus Oil Boiler 3115-34
Wow, I clean my Keystoker horizontal pipe and burn chamber about every 60 days. I never touch the area where the rear exhaust tubes meet at the the top of the stove on the top, I have an elbow that is connected at that point. That area only gets cleaned at season end. The build up is really not alarming in my spring clean outs.
If you can figure how much coal you burned since the last cleaning that may be a better way to schedule the next cleaning rather than going by time elapsed. That way if you have a real bad cold snap that has you burning twice the fuel you can adjust your clean out to happen sooner.
- Ed.A
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- Location: Canterbury Ct.
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Alaska Channing III/ '94 Stoker II
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
Good Point.titleist1 wrote:If you can figure how much coal you burned since the last cleaning that may be a better way to schedule the next cleaning rather than going by time elapsed. That way if you have a real bad cold snap that has you burning twice the fuel you can adjust your clean out to happen sooner.