How Do You Clean Circulating Wood Stoves?
Wood stoves provide warmth and style to homes, but in doing so present their own safety issues. Cleaning a circulating wood stove is an imperative part of maintenance safety. The threat of fire can be significantly reduced when proper safety standards are defined and maintained. By following some tried and true steps to cleaning your circulating wood stove, you will be ensuring optimum functionality, as well as affording your family the best in warmth as well as safety. Find and remove the catalytic combustor from your wood stove. (The combustor is found between the stove pipe and where the fire burns.) It will easily come apart, usually without using any tools. Ascertain that the combustor isn’t hot to touch. If it is hot, wait several hours before proceeding with the cleaning process. If it’s not hot, use your vacuum cleaner’s hose attachment to vacuum the ash from the combustor. Shovel the ashes from the main fire compartment in the stove. Place these ashes in a metal box or bucket.
