Well, I shut her down for the summer season. I spent a couple of hours on Thursday and perhaps an hour to an hour and half yesterday getting her cleaned out and oil up for the summer season; a bucket has been placed on the chimney. A couple of findings; This thing is much easier to clean than my old E-Classic 1400. I still had some creosote buildup in the air channel but nothing like the old one. I had only inspected the channel through the winter a couple of times but because there was so little build up at the time, I left it there. That was a mistake, I should have done it during the inspection phase. That stuff caked up about an 1/8 of inch think and hardened. I had to spend time chipping it away. That was something I was hoping to avoid. The firebox cleaned without difficulty, a simple putty knife did the trick with any creosote. After the ashes that were left in the reaction chamber from the heating season was removed, I scraped the side walls and ceiling of fly ash and vacuumed everything out. The Hx was brushed of fly ash as was the chimney "T". Overall, I surprised at how easy it cleaned out. My E-Classic 1400 would have taken nearly 10 hours of time to clean, this thing took at most 3 and 1/2 hours and I didn't feel like I had been put through the ringer after cleaning her. Oh!, I used only 5 cord of wood this past season. Happy about that. Roger