Fly Ash in Flue Outet?

 
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2001Sierra
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Post by 2001Sierra » Thu. Dec. 11, 2014 9:47 pm

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.

 
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Post by titleist1 » Thu. Dec. 11, 2014 11:16 pm

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.


 
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Post by Ed.A » Fri. Dec. 12, 2014 5:15 am

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.
Good Point.

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