Haven't seen a thread on this in a while I like to see my fire Sometimes I use just a dry paper towel . Sometimes wet paper towel with ashes ,buff with dry paper towel . And Sometimes clean it real good with Magic Cooktop Cream and Polish, it also leaves a transparent, protective coating I here this stuff works good
I'm cheap. I use (or I should say my wife uses) some sort of hydrogen peroxide concoction that she makes. Works better than anything I've bought at the store.
Thanks for the welcome. Probably should have posted at the "New member area" at first, but see so many familiar members here from other forums I felt like I could just jump right in. Glad I discovered this site.
Care to share the recipe? I usually use ashes on an old newspaper and then wipe clean with water on a paper towel. I do have a bottle of that Rutland glass cleaner, works ok for the really stuck on stuff. Came with my first stove, I don't use much of it.
I'll ask her when she gets back from town. Whatever it is, I like it for the fact that is doesn't take a lot of elbow grease.
Just cleaned mine again today. Wet a paper towel and wipe down, then scrub a little. Comes right off. Dry with a clean one, then they both go in the stove. I still have a little of the Rutland stuff from a few years ago.
For some reason she is a stickler about having the stove glass clean. She does finish it off with that glass stovetop cleaner. Seems to keep it clean longer. If she'd keep the rest of the house as clean as the stove, I'd have something to write home about!
OK. She just made some and did the glass. It't water, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide and wood ash. All mixed up in a little plastic tub to make a thin paste. A little messy but it works. Wipe it on, scrub a little on the tough spots, let it sit for a bit and wipe it off.
Water and paper towels work great for us as all we get is some fly ash on the glass. No black stuff here!
I use water and a little ash if needed, then a dry paper towel. Just be careful on the cleaners I know I've heard it said that some will damage the coating on the glass. I don't have proof of that just passing on what I have heard.
I think glass in a wood stove doesn't last forever. My stove is 30+ years old and over time the glass (ceramic) has gotten pitted.
Our PH glass initially will clean up great with water, but over time it gets a film that builds up, just where the rolling secondaries hit it, and we can't get that cleaned off. I have not tried any commercial cleaners, but have tried a variety of solvents. Today I took it to our mechanic and tried to get him to do a headlight polish on it, but he wasn't game for putting his buffer pad onto it (some people are like that). We have a new piece in the stove, and I plan to keep experimenting with the used piece.
