Cleaning wood Burning Stove Glass

[ditchcrawler]

that's cream not the real stuff.......white powders rule

http://www.diy.com/departments/vim-scouring-powder/258684_BQ.prd

 

better

[borninyorks]

Stovax is brilliant!

[John Holden]

Any reason why you can't burn all the kack off the glass (and from the flue) by letting the fire run flat out for a few minutes?

Always worked for me.

[Jim Riley]

Brillo pad, dry, can use it on glass when hot, e.g. to clean off the initial condensation tar when lighting. The soap in the pad sort of lubricates it as you scrub, Otherwise newspaper, spit and wood ash.

[Aunty_Rinum]

Brillo pad, dry, can use it on glass when hot, e.g. to clean off the initial condensation tar when lighting. The soap in the pad sort of lubricates it as you scrub, Otherwise newspaper, spit and wood ash.

Will all result in a lot of effort and scratched glass. Wet wipes are the answer. If anyone tries them, please report back.

[Pete of Ebor]

I have a Morso Badger (..the next size up from the Squirrel..) multi fuel stove, which is defra-approved for burning wood in a smokeless zone. I admit it is in a house rather than a boat, and I only ever burn wood, but I only ever seem to get soot on the glass when I close down the air supply... so I don't usually close it. If I do close it down occasionally, I usually find that most of the soot deposited usually burns off. Running stoves with the air closed down causes incomplete combustion resulting in soot and Carbon Monoxide, and if there are any 'weaknesses' in the stove or flue (eg cracked glass, cracked stove or leaks in the flue) then CO can leak out... As to cleaning soot off, a soft sopnge with washing up liquid usually does the trick.

[Jim Riley]

Will all result in a lot of effort and scratched glass. Wet wipes are the answer. If anyone tries them, please report back.

No scratches on glass after 6 or 7 years of use at home. Maybe the eco fan helps! Little effort involved with spit n ash n paper, or brillo pad.

[cheshire~rose]

No scratches on glass after 6 or 7 years of use at home. Maybe the eco fan helps! Little effort involved with spit n ash n paper, or brillo pad.

 

I was using brillo pads back in the 1970's for cleaning the glass on a Rayburn room heater and have done the same on our Villager Puffin on board the boat for years and I will confirm it does not cause scratched glass.

 

I have not tried wet wipes but will do so next time we are on the boat.

 

Those people who mention they would need to go and buy some for the purpose have obviously not realised how many uses wet wipes have. I would not be without them on the boat. They are great at getting greasy hands clean and will even remove blacking!

[Athy]

 

 

Those people who mention they would need to go and buy some for the purpose have obviously not realised how many uses wet wipes have. I would not be without them on the boat. They are great at getting greasy hands clean and will even remove blacking!

Hmm. But if my hands are greasy I can clean them with soap and/ or washing up liquid, both of which we have on the boat already; and, since many boaters take care not to remove blacking if they can avoid it, why would you want to remove it?

 

So wet wipes will not be on my shopping list.

 

(This is becoming a candidate for that "Massive argument" thread!)

[cheshire~rose]

Assuming you have hot running water and soap to hand then that is fine.

 

Arriving to our boat in the middle of winter and setting the fire I much prefer to use a wet wipe than to thrust my hands that are black with coal muck under a freezing cold tap then remove the rest of the soot that has not been removed by the cold water on the clean towel.

[Athy]

Thirty-all.

 

Put the kettle on first.

[cheshire~rose]

Thirty-all.

 

Put the kettle on first.

 

I can't, we always light the stove before we put the gas on and even if we didn't I would be waiting for the kettle to boil because it doesn't take very many minutes to set the fire

[Athy]

Drat. thirty-forty.

 

Oh, but do you need to light the stove before switching on the gas?

 

Deuce.

[Dalesman]

I use HOT SPOT spray on foam works very well on hot or cold glass.

[ditchcrawler]

Can you put wet wipes in a Porta potty I know you can't put them down a macerator pumpout toilet

[cheshire~rose]

Drat. thirty-forty.

 

Oh, but do you need to light the stove before switching on the gas?

 

Deuce.

 

Yes, because I leave climbing on the bow of the boat to the other half

 

Is that Love all?

[Jim Riley]

Wet wipes generate uneccessary waste, soap, water and a towel don't. Brillo pads last for ages, newspaper and ash are recycled, spit is free.

[cheshire~rose]

Can you put wet wipes in a Porta potty I know you can't put them down a macerator pumpout toilet

 

You shouldn't. They do not degrade like toilet paper does and so they are best not getting into the sewer system at all

 

They burn ok though

[Jim Riley]

 

You shouldn't. They do not degrade like toilet paper does and so they are best not getting into the sewer system at all

 

They burn ok though

And put noxious fumes into the air!

[cheshire~rose]

And put noxious fumes into the air!

 

True

 

Can anyone advise me of something I can burn on my stove that doesn't put noxious fumes into the air?

[MtB]

When I had a Boatman stove it burnt the soot off the glass when lit again the soot only seemed to build up as fire died.

 

 

I agree, this is about the one good thing about the Boatman stove. The glass stays clean.

 

I'm still chucking mine out though as everything else about it is RUBBISH!!!!

[Cloudinspector]

WD40 or something similar stolen from work does the job for me along with a rag also stolen from work.

[Chagall]

Will all result in a lot of effort and scratched glass. Wet wipes are the answer. If anyone tries them, please report back.

 

I did and Im absolutey staggered! Thick black soot that was baked on took minimum effort to remove, but what on earth are wet wipes doing to babies bottoms!

 

Great tip though, thanks.

[Pete of Ebor]

 

True

 

Can anyone advise me of something I can burn on my stove that doesn't put noxious fumes into the air?

Hydrogen, but the BSS might have something to say...

[ditchcrawler]

Hydrogen, but the BSS might have something to say...

I dont think I have seen Hydrogen mentioned in the BSS like I dont think they say anything about Fuel cells. It doesn't seem to look forward, just retrospectively