PH then removed the stack attached to the wood stove on one end, and the Magic Heat heat exchanger on the top. Then he detached the Magic Heat from the elbow pipe that went out of the wall. The piece through the wall he left in place. He used the wire chimney brush while I held the bucket under the opening and rain the brush through several times. We were SHOCKED at how much cresote came out of just the horizontal pipe.
Next on the list was removing the outside elbow piece, removing the bracket screws that hold the upright pipe and attached rain hat. Once those were on the ground, PH carefully cleaned each piece. He even washed the rain hat to remove all the creosote build up from the wire screen.
Once the pipe was clean, he reattached the pipes and screwed everything back together. I then cleaned the inside of the stove, and replaced any broken fire bricks. Next on the list (for another day) will be taking a wire brush to the outside of the wood stove and reapplying stove black to the stove.
It is wonderful to be able to sit here tonight with a fire (it is in the 30s here) without smoke pouring until the room. Last night I kept a low fire burning, but had to sleep with the front door cracked so most of the smoke would go outside. Much better to have ZERO smoke inside the house ;-)
