An old man in Montana showed me that if you burn a russet potato once a week the chemicals in the potato dry out the creosote and it flakes off and falls into the fire box. I used this method for a month and reinspected and sure enough my stove pipe was cleaned out. It actually works really good.

How I clean the cap is when the fire is out remove cap and clean with wire brushe and a stick . very easy bang the chimney a bit ,or run the chimney brush on flex pole down a couple of times , Heating with wood for over 45yrs still doing it today , plenty of wood on my property

Awesome

Im wondering if you could help me out? We have a wood cook stove we had installed at thanksgiving time of this year. It is normal when the fire is not hot to have smoke puff out the seams of the smoke pipe? Its been in the 50s this week in Michigan and smoke is puffing out the pipe seams when we attempt to light it

@grummelameise

6 ай бұрын

that means that either: the temps outside are way to warm, or your chimney, or pipe is clogged. you need to wait for cool down, then dissasemble the pipe, take it outside, and brush it out. then you need to to the same with your oven as far as you can reach, and also with the chinmney. wet wood lets soot built up in a majour way. always burn dry wood. a designated vacuum for all the dirt is very helpfull

It looks like thats whats wrong with mine, would that be why smoke was coming out of the dampers and pouring out when I opened the door?

@undergroundtomas8083

7 ай бұрын

Or you don't have enough draw. We have a stove at work that has a pretty short pipe and will, if you don't kindle your fire properly, not pull the smoke out and leak through the ash pan and doors... have set off alarm systems if happened with a loaded stove. It works through creating a vacuum so would also think about that...

@mikebertsch8747

7 ай бұрын

@@undergroundtomas8083 thank you, I cleaned out the rain cap it was clogged with creosote and now its drawing like crazy no smoke at all

@undergroundtomas8083

7 ай бұрын

@@mikebertsch8747 I gotta clean this weekend, supposed to be warm here so no need for the stove... just to be safe