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How often do you guys clean your chimney?
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10 Jan ’14 - 1:45 pm
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we don't burn a lot of wood, check it once a year, have only cleaned once since we've been here, with the oven now though probably going to tear the whole thing apart twice a year, talking to people though, they clean weekly or monthly, should I increase my cleaning? wat do? this is the amount of buildup after 4 years of burning, realize that's only about 4 cords of wood though

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reason I'm asking is I started a fire and I can hear the creosote dripping down and hitting the top of the oven

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10 Jan ’14 - 10:07 pm
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I would get that cleaned out. Thats a lot of build up for that small amount of use. Its better to be safe then sorry.

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10 Jan ’14 - 10:25 pm
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we did, that's what was in there when we cleaned it this fall when we installed the bakers salute oven

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10 Jan ’14 - 10:31 pm
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i clean mine once a month but i burn a lot of wood

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11 Jan ’14 - 2:14 pm
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yeah, you were one of the people that got me thinking about it lol

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I have never cleaned mine over seven winters and it looks nearly new inside. All the wood I burn is two years dry and because of the heat stoarage via an indoor wood gasification boiler, it is allways a very hot fire. I have been to busy to keep up with the wood boiler for most of this winter, but when I do it only burns three to four hours every other day.

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26 Jan ’14 - 10:49 am
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how much wood do you burn a year through that?

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30 Jan ’14 - 6:04 pm
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A couple years ago when I had time to keep up with it I was burning about five or six cord and keeping the house pretty warm.

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