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[Maxnchej]

Clean out my bl2840 after the first week of burning and I was shocked by how little ash there was for the clean out. I used the scope and pushed it in along each side and the middle multiple times and only got about 2/3 of a ask pail full. When I was using my wood stove I would get the same pail full in less then a week and would not be burning 24x7, really shows how well these units work!

When I did my ash clean out I was cleaned out he heat exchanger, was very little of anything up there and tried to scape down the walls in the firebox. I found the scraping hard since the top is round and the unit is very deep. Are others doing this?

I'm currently running my unit at 189 with a diff of 10 and don't seem to have much build up.

Are others doing anything else for weekly maintenance?

[MerrellRoofing]

Someone's ash pan warped from the heat. I leave mine out and push it in to scoop the ashes. Is everyone else leaving there's in?  I'm gonna put my scraper on the grinder to round it off a little. I've left the fire pit alone and just let the ashes fall thru as they wish.

[oaky]

P&M says it's best to leave out the ash pan because of the firebrick grates getting very hot. I have a thin layer of that glassy creosote in the fire box walls, haven't done any scraping, figure when the heat gets hot enough, it'll burn it off. P&M suggest to do a hot burn once or twice a week to control the creosote build-up. I'm getting on average, a full ash pan every week, nothing much in the secondary heat chamber.

[Maxnchej]

Sorry for the confusion, I don't leave the ash pan in, I just used it to clean out the ash on Saturday. I leave the pan under the stove.

[Crow]

I put the ash pan under the door and use the cleanout tool to pull the ashes out so I don't push ashes into the air passage from the blower.