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How often do you clean the chimney?

Every year.

I sweep out my pipe about every 3 years. I burn good seasoned hardwood so I don't have a creosote problem. Buck stove has a cat so that helps. Pipe is triple wall stainless all the way up, usually get about a quart when I sweep it.

It's not all that cold here tonight. A wood fire would feel good. It's also a good night to stay home. My age is showing,

Only burn hardwood, every other year.

I don't , we burn ash and cherry so there nothing to clean.

Fire it up. I got some sweet smelling ash going in the Buck today. Felt good coming into after cutting firewood in 35 degrees, cloudy and 100% humidity today.

Never, I burn a very hot fire every morning,Sometimes I have a very small chimney fire then it is all clean. Oh and double wall stainless pipe the whole length

I cleaned mine (and my grandfather’s) every year.
Mine wasn’t a big deal, but my grandfather’s definitely needed it. He always seasoned his hardwood at least two years, but it was an old farmhouse. The ‘attic’ (my bedroom when I was there) was poorly insulated and COLD. He generally got some buildup.

The beauty of having the exterior boiler is that I don’t have to deal with that schit.

This make a nice warm glow when we are up north.

A stainless double wall chimney.

I have my own brush and poles so it isn't a big deal to do it every year. It isn't very bad, and if I were paying someone might do it every other year.

Richard, what is the stove code dictating distance from combustibles?

Wood stoves every other year. Fireplace every year.

I should probably clean this fireplace, but 10 year seasoned hedge burns pretty hot..

Once a year, but I could probably go to years, Nothing significant comes out of my chimneys half a coffee can. I burn season hardwoods.

My wife gives me a present every year on my birthday which is in june. I get a chimney brush in one hand and a ladder in the other.
Our brush is on flex rod and I just run it down from the top after removing the China hat. All the smug goes into the stove above the catalytic combustor . I made a attachment for my shop vac that sucks all the fumunda out.
Short answer,,, once a year.

Wayne, I don't recall. At the time I made sure we were with the book.

Out of the picture there is a mounted wood duck. I keep moving that back.

I also have some red sticks for smothering out a chimney fire.

Never for the flue itself

Edit: there is a baffle chamber above the firebox. I scrape that about ever 2 yrs.

I burn about 4 cords every winter. It's a mix of aspen & spruce. I brush my chimney every year. It's a 6" triple wall & the single wall from the stove to the ceiling. It's about a total of 10' of straight pipe.

Every 6 months or 2 cords of wood. Fireplace once a year since I don’t burn it often.