Has anyone else noticed that your stove or insert seems to work better after you clean it? I did the sweeping yesterday... This morning I took out the fire bricks and baffle, and removed the secondary tubes. Scraped the inside surfaces with a putty knife and shoveled it out. Tubes had deposits on the holes, scrubbed with scratch pad, looks clean now. When I did this the last time I was amazed at how much better it produced secondary flames and the fan came on earlier... Almost like the heat was being insulated from escaping before. I can't wait to see if it happens tonight again... Assuming it cools off, been pretty warm so far. Anyway, curious if others noticed this, or it's just my own weird obsession with the stove being cleaned good
My car even seems to run much better after a washing. We don't have a tube stove but it makes sense that cleaning the tubes would make a difference.
Absolutely. My current stove had a chunk of charcoal blocking one of the primary air holes on the dog house inside the firebox. The secondary combustion intake on my last stove was partial blocked by some crumbled stove cement and cobwebs from sitting unused over the summer. I resealed the inner stove plates on my Castine this year as the cement cracked and lost its' seal. Secondaries are great now.
I always feel better after cleaning the chimney and stove. Can't say it runs any better though. I suppose smooth surfaces would allow the air movement to be improved?
I always thought we saw improved burn after a cleaning too. Maybe the removed gunk sort of insulated the firebox heat from the stove body somehow.
I think mine does run a little better after cleaning. I take all the tubes and the bricks out of the top,, scrape the area above the bricks , vacuum it out real good, I run a brush through all the tubes and clean the holes out
