Trouble in Paradise--Ash Removal

 
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Post by PJT » Sun. Apr. 26, 2015 2:23 pm

freetown fred wrote:S, if the wifey is above doin a lil extra dustin for spring cleaning--ya can always hire a good lookin babe to do that--some even do it naked--w/ the money you're saving heating wise
I cast my vote for Fred's Maid Service. :) :) :)

 
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Post by scalabro » Sun. Apr. 26, 2015 3:40 pm

Owning a stove with a built in internal check damper goes a LONG way to minimize this problem.

 
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Post by davidmcbeth3 » Sun. Apr. 26, 2015 4:00 pm

Rob R. wrote:If you allow the ash to sit in the pan for a few hours, or until the stove needs to be tended again, it will be much cooler and not "lift off" when you remove the pan from the stove.
That's the ticket Rob. I do not remove the ash immediately. I do not have ash leaving the pan and being deposited elsewhere.

I do turn off the blowers when removing the ash pan to outside.

 
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Post by types_with_fist » Sun. Apr. 26, 2015 11:35 pm

A well tended stove is warm and comforting when life is cold and bitter - maybe you need to re-prioritize!! Then you'll really be saving money and can afford the good maid-service.

Josh


 
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Post by warminmn » Mon. Apr. 27, 2015 6:33 am

I thought about it some more and I think Fred is kind of on to something. Perhaps take some of the money saved with burning coal and let your wife hire someone to come in once a week and clean. I think letting her pick the person may help you make the sale.

 
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Post by deepwoods » Thu. Apr. 30, 2015 7:56 pm

My wife is a minor dust fanatic but her interest in dusting has admittedly waned over the years. Since I switched to coal she only commented in passing that the color of our dust has turned from brown (40 years of wood heat) to gray (coal). Dust in all forms is inescapable. It's a fact of housekeeping life. She has graduated from using my old socks sprayed with whatever commercial dusting compound was on hand to Swiffer and seems content. My stoves are good and tight and I handle ash very carefully and dump it far from the house in the driveway, and as I learned earlier with an eye to the wind direction. I have a sheet steel cover I place over the ash pan of my DS Machine as soon as I remove it from the ash pit along with quickly closing the ash door. I also go to full draft 5 minutes before starting the shakedown.
I had a propane forced air system installed 5 years ago and have only used it sparingly. I ran it for about 3 weeks this December and with it's hepa filter and all, it still produced dust.
The warmth and true penetrating heat coal yields is worth what dust it may make. Wife agrees :D
Sure hope she doesnt catch on to fred's maid service!!!!

 
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Post by sav » Thu. Apr. 30, 2015 8:17 pm

Thank you all for the advice. I've implemented all but one (!) and things are a lot cleaner and the wife happier.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Fri. May. 01, 2015 7:43 am

Which one S???????? :clap: toothy


 
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Post by WESOman » Mon. Nov. 15, 2021 5:54 pm

sav wrote:
Sun. Apr. 26, 2015 8:32 am
my wife has begun to complain about the very fine layer of ash that seems to be on every horizontal surface in the house. Her displeasure is reaching the point where she wants the stoves removed!
I wonder how much dust may not be from the stove but is actually normal household dust migrating throughout the house with all the rising and falling of a very localized heat source. My old home has hot water cast iron radiators and it amazes me how much dust gets drawn in below the radiators. That's how radiators work. They create hot air which rises toward the ceiling and suck in cooler air from the floor. That air flow doesn't leave all the dust on the floor, some gets transported around the room where it settles. It is my opinion that a stove does the exact same thing.

 
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Post by ShawnLiNy » Mon. Nov. 15, 2021 6:43 pm

WESOman wrote:
Mon. Nov. 15, 2021 5:54 pm
I wonder how much dust may not be from the stove but is actually normal household dust migrating throughout the house with all the rising and falling of a very localized heat source. My old home has hot water cast iron radiators and it amazes me how much dust gets drawn in below the radiators. That's how radiators work. They create hot air which rises toward the ceiling and suck in cooler air from the floor. That air flow doesn't leave all the dust on the floor, some gets transported around the room where it settles. It is my opinion that a stove does the exact same thing.
WESOman something tells me Sav the OP lost that argument sometime in 2017 , rumor has it the offending weapon was a feather duster with traces of fly ash 😀

 
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Post by oliver power » Mon. Nov. 15, 2021 7:59 pm

At tending time, I empty the ash from the previous shaking. I has cooled, and fly ash isn't floating on the therms.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Mon. Nov. 15, 2021 8:25 pm

Simple as that Scott!! :)

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