Who has their stove off ?

Hi Dexter
The big hopper and ash pan is really nice,
How often did you have to empty the ash pan and vac it out?

 

Good to see everyone's still posting and getting ready : ) I just finished painting the inside of my stove and put a container of Damp Rid in the fire pot area , should I also cover the outside exhaust to keep the humidity out ?

 

That's what I do/did. I actually have my vent and oak disconnected.

 

I cover the outside exhaust to keep humidity, critters and bugs out. Usually disconnect the OAK, but didn't for either stove this year. No damp rid this year either. Out of curiosity I checked the P43 about a week ago and no rust (KOW). Haven't looked at the P61, but figure it is too late in the season to do anything different and make a difference anyway. Been such a dry summer for the most part that I'm not worried about it.

 

Just looked in both my stoves the Accentra is clean , I still have to do the outside pipe which is still connected
, I sprayed the inside with Pam this year . It's been a steam bath here this year inside is 99% rust free I'll be doing that again next year .
The p43 is still dirty and will stay that way until Sept .

 

That is a lot of ash in there!

 

Wow that's insane ! I guess I can cut way back on my cleaning

 

The Quads are great stoves for sure.

The only issue we have with the old 1000 series is that the air holes in the bottom of the deep fire pot get covered with hard glass like clinker and then the thing does not get enough air and coughs out black smoke real BAD

CHEAP BLAZER PELLETS
But thats the way it is, low cost gets more crud.

 

I do see the flame get a little darker with a tad more smoke , and even when you pull the burn pot cleaning handle they won't fall through so I just open it up and do a quick vac every 3 days . This year I plan on pulling the burn pot clean out handle twice a day and do a decent cleaning once a week . That's why I try to run the high end Pellets when I can .

 

But you didn't......LOL. I am STILL the champ.

 

Fire ON
This year we have had a fire in the stove sometime every month.
October to June is a normal fire season here, with June being hit and miss, usually all done by the first week or so.

Normally July, August and some years even September is fire free.

We had 2 fires in July, 1 in August and now we are starting September with a fire.

I could have lit it off yesterday but the sun came out and things warmed up fairly well till bed time, and then we just added another blanket.

This morning was just not gonna cut it.

 

It's amazing what you find when you're deep cleaning . I guess this is an air intake box at the bottom .

 

LOOKS LIKE A QUAD ???

Which model ??

 

The CB 1200