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How to clean the glass on your wood burning stove

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By GOINGYARD
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clean the glass on your wood burning stove
clean the glass on your wood burning stove

Here's a simply way to clean the glass on your wood burning stove or insert without using any glass cleaners or chemicals.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • paper towels
  • tap water
  1. Step 1

    Your stove must be cool (without a fire or any embers burning) to do this process. First take some moist paper towels and dip them into the "white ash" inside the stove. Get a generous amount of the white ash onto the moist paper towels.

  2. Step 2

    Next, rub the white ash that is on the moist paper towel onto the glass in a circular motion. Repeat this step until the entire glass surface is covered.

  3. Step 3

    Next, with a wet paper towel, wipe off the glass completely removing all the white ash.

  4. Step 4

    Lastly, with a dry paper towel, dry the glass.

Tips & Warnings
  • For an extra dirty window glass, these steps may need to be repeated a couple of times.

Comments  

whosthat said

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on 9/9/2009 Exactly as we have done it for the last 6/7 years and our fireplace was not very well built , no dog leg up chimney . We are about to fit a free standing cast iron stove but will use this method of cleaning the glass - it works!

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