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My first season with the glass door wood stove. Instructions warn to use a special product "available where you bought your stove" ???
Has anyone had long term success cleaning their stove glass with common cleaning products?
The warning, of course, was the last of a lot of "never, never" stuff. I would appreciate someone's actual experience, and thanks.
Leo
 
On our stove the black accumulates on the inside of the glass, and I use a single edge razor blade to clean it off. I'm not sure if that is proper or not, but it works okay for me so far.
Zach
 
just plain white vinegar and newspaper or paper towel. been doing it that way for years. if the black stuff is thick, saturate the paper towel with vinegar and hold it on the black for a minute or so, works every time. of course do this with the glass cool.
good luck.

dpn deere
 
Soot accumulates when you lower the burn rate by limiting the air flow. The same thing is happening inside your stove and your chimney. You can burn most of the soot back down by stacking the wood closer to the door and opening the draft all the way.
 
My first year too. I bought the cleaning stuff from Lowe"s. About $6. Takes two or three squirts and about 30 seconds with a paper towel. When the bottle is empty, I"ll try the vinegar though.
 
Make a hot fire and it will take care of that.If it gets that much on the glass you should burn a little hotter to keep the chimney clean too.
 
I've used single edge razors for years with no problem. There are razor holders with an extended handle that work really well for this.
 
I would avoid using razor blades for a newer stove. You will remove/damage the coatings they are using on the glass in the modern stoves.
 
I have a pellet stove with a glass in the door. When it gets sooted up and the stove is cool I just use what ever glass cleaner that we have in the house. I just spray a little on and wipe it off with a paper towel. I have been doing this for 5 years now.

Bob
 
The stove glass cleaner works really well and is relitively inexpensive because you do not use all that much.

I use just a water dampened paper towel. Unless really this that does the trick.

I am leary of abrasive cleaners or razor blades as the modern stoves (i.e. this century) have coatings on the glass, that you do not want to damage.

IMHO

Jeff
 
So long as I burn good wood in a hot stove, the glass only needs a light layer of dust wiped off about once a week.

However if it does get sooted up I've found a good household spray surfactant (like "Fantastic" spray cleaner) works as well as special glass cleaner purchased at the stove shop. And a bottle of Fantastic is only about 1/3 the price.
 

Here I come to save the day!! just use whatever cheap oven cleaner you use to clean up the old TRACTOR before painting. There, got TRACTOR in the thread before Bob came along.
 
So......A real hot fire keeps the glass sparkling clean and.....you never have to clean it manually? Sure.....
I haven"t had to clean the soot from my chimney for five years; ever since I got my Hearthstone soapstone stove.
I burn very well seasoned wood; mostly ironwood and white oak.
I still do have to clean the glass every couple of weeks and I do use that "expensive" glass cleaner with "crumpled" newspaper dampened with Windex.
 
I've had one of the 'sealed' inserts for about 6 years now and the glass on it will get covered with a thin layer of creosote when I'm not burning hot enough and long enough. The past few years I've been heating with nothing but the stove so I never allow it to go all the way out and cool down but it does tend to get 'cold' during the day when no one's at home tending it and the glass gets glazed as a result. That being the case the best thing I've found to clean it is some of the cleaner designed for stove glasses and a piece of course steel wool. A squirt of the stuff on the steel wool and a few scrubs followed by a wipe with an old rag and it's clear as a bell.I tried the razor blade thing for awhile but the steel wool works much better. I don't know what the cleaner has in it but it's sort of like waxing a car in that it leaves a film of something on the glass that keeps the creosote from sticking to it as quickly as it would otherwise.
 
Purple Power degreaser from TSC about $15 for 2 gallons. I put it in an old Windex squirt bottle. 2 or 3 squirts on cool glass and the brown stain runs off the glass in my pellet stove, a few wipes with a paper towel and it's spotless. You'd be amazed at how well it cleans the inside of a truck windshield when followed by windex, especially if you smoke in the truck.
 
That is how I do my glass on mine, meaning newspaper and vinegar. "Warm" works better than if it cooled off and the soot is now dried on cold.

As long as no water (or cold vinegar) is sprayed right on the glass there is very little or no chance of cracking or breaking the glass.

I well dampen a big handful of newspaper with water for my first handful and wipe the door next to but not touching the glass to make sure it is cool enough to clean the glass. Then I will use water and paper, followed up with the vinegar and paper to finish the glass.

DOUG
 
I either use cheap oven cleaner which works really well or just burn it hotter once in a while to keep it cleaned off. I would never use a razor blade on the modern stove glass.
 
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