Wood Stove Glass Cleaning
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Ours has a fresh air wash so it doesn't get too cruddy. When it does, a couple wet paper towels followed by a dry one does the trick.
I use a dry SOS pad on the inside of glass on mine. Cleans it up beautifully. I guess it's a heavy thick pyrex type of glass so the fine steel wool leaves no noticeable scratches. Scrub it in tight circles.
I have an Alpine insert and it is destined to be black. We clean it when we removed the ashes. Generally start with a scraper with a razor on the end and it gets the heavy stuff off. It is followed up with 409 and a little elbow grease.
Out air intake is at the bottom edge of the fire box so we do not have the fresh air intake flowing by the door/glass.
Out air intake is at the bottom edge of the fire box so we do not have the fresh air intake flowing by the door/glass.
When I 1st got the stove, I used to clean it w/some wet paper towels & scrap the hard stuff w/a razor blade. Eventually I noticed the blade was maring the tempered glass. Now I just use a wet paper towel when the glass is warm which gets most of it off. Then some good heat in the box burns off the rest. The best way to keep it clean is to keep the fire box hot. Do you have a thermometer on the stove? If its warm inside the house I don't fill the box full w/wood but instead just add a couple of logs to keep the box hot enuff so the cresote doesn't build up too much. If too much cresote is building up in the box then it must doing the same in the pipe. I burn my stove 24-7 in the winter.
I also burn 24/7 in the winter. right before you are ready to clean it get the fire box dwn to coals and rake em' up tight against the glass and let it burn wide open. what dosn't burn off comes off easy with dry krinkled up newspaper.
The consensus method on hearth.com, which works well for us , is:
Scrunch up newspaper, get slightly damp, dip in ashes, scrub glass in circles, wipe off the ashes/slurry mess with a damp paper towel or another damp piece of newspaper.
The lightly abrasive effect of the (free and plentiful) ashes works great.
Scrunch up newspaper, get slightly damp, dip in ashes, scrub glass in circles, wipe off the ashes/slurry mess with a damp paper towel or another damp piece of newspaper.
The lightly abrasive effect of the (free and plentiful) ashes works great.
it's amazing how clean that rattlesnake dung burns...isn't it?