How often do you clean out your stove ?

alleycat`

Wood, not very often as the ash bed tends to burn away over time anyway.

Only tends to get a good clean out if i switch to smokeless, in which case it needs doing every day or so, or for when it gets to put its proverbial feet up (i.e. the summer months).

A._Badger

Wood doesn't demand cleaning very often but as Swipe says, if you are burning smokeless fuel and you don't keep the airflow open, by riddling/poking and cleaning out the ashes, you will melt your firebars in a matter of days.

fleeto3

So I don't need to empty it every day then? I'll be honest it didn't seem like a lot of ash today. I'm burning pallets though so they're quite a lot of nails being left as you'd expect. Magnet from an old cb aerial clears those out

suisidevw

Last year I did it once burning Wood on a Charnwood C4

A._Badger

fleeto3 wrote: »

So I don't need to empty it every day then? I'll be honest it didn't seem like a lot of ash today. I'm burning pallets though so they're quite a lot of nails being left as you'd expect. Magnet from an old cb aerial clears those out

Not if you are burning wood. In fact wood burns best on a bed of ash so stove owners tend to have a bed several inches deep and just clear the top inch or so when it threatens to overflow.

If you switch to using smokeless fuel, however, then you will need to clear it very frequently.