Energy fire glass

[michelangelo]

Hi FOG,

I have an energy fireplace at home and the glass needs cleaning every two or three weeks from soot build up. I have been doing this by hand using a damp cloth dipped in ash and it takes about 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour  [eek]

Now I have an RO90, can I use it for this task?

 

[mouppe]

I use a wet scotch pad and paper towel and it takes me a matter of seconds. I clean it every two or three fires. If I leave it longer the soot becomes much much harder to remove. I'm not sure using a sander is a good idea.

 

[junk731]

Try a piece of newspaper, it gets 90% of the soot off after a full years use, should work even better every couple of weeks. Not really a place for a sander.

John

 

[tbellemare]

I clean the enamel-like baked on grease from my grill with lan RO 90 and vlies pad. It works great. The only thing I've found that does work well.

Tom

 

[Paul G]

The RO90 may be a 'sander' but there are a lot of polishing accessories for it. I use scotchbrite pads for cleaning the tough stuff on my stove glass, if there was a RO90 pad like that I'd certainly give it a try.

 

[tbellemare]

The RO90 may be a 'sander' but there are a lot of polishing accessories for it. I use scotchbrite pads for cleaning the tough stuff on my stove glass, if there was a RO90 pad like that I'd certainly give it a try.

That's basically what these Vlies abrasives are.

Tom

 

[Paul G]

The RO90 may be a 'sander' but there are a lot of polishing accessories for it. I use scotchbrite pads for cleaning the tough stuff on my stove glass, if there was a RO90 pad like that I'd certainly give it a try.

That's basically what these Vlies abrasives are.

Tom

Thanks, the description suggests it's a great option:

"This Festool StickFix® Sandpaper is for light sanding and degreasing, polishing metal and solid surface."

 

[michelangelo]

thanks for the replies! I know that it's way easier to clean every three days - it takes 5 minutes but I can't get a rhythm going and end up letting it build up, then it's really difficult to clean.

The thing is the energy fire is the sole source of heating for the whole house with ventilators so it's lit 24/7 in winter, so there's small window of opportunity for cleaning.

If I can be more punctual scotchbrite sounds good, but I'll invest in vlies too for times of heavy build up.

 

[junk731]

You guys are hilarious, make something as easy as cleaning fireglass glass as complicated and expensive as possible so you can use a powered tool. You made my day. LOL

John

 

[Paul G]

You guys are hilarious, make something as easy as cleaning fireglass glass as complicated and expensive as possible so you can use a powered tool. You made my day. LOL

John

$20 for some scrubbing/polishing pads? ???

 

[michelangelo]

Honestly I don't think it's that easy - two weeks build up takes over 1/2 an hour of scrubbing on bended knee to remove.

John says it's easy and Mr. Miyagi says it improves karate technique. I want to use a power tool if it gets the job done quicker and easier

 

[WastedP]

Since there's usually a pile of newspaper next to the stove and glass cleaner not too far away, it only takes a minute or two to do it between fires if the build up is bad.

Good wood = less soot.

 

[hopper]

I use a glass razor blade scraper with a vacuum cleaner to catch the scrapings. Works in minutes.  Similar to this one in this link
http://www.uline.ca/BL_1165/Scraper-Knife?pricode=DD713&AdKeyword=razor%20blade%20scraper&AdMatchtype=e&gclid=CjwKEAiAvvyiBRDzrYuuldy6wB8SJABPJWObwb-gQT0Qyn-pRgBI8Xe8AJVhOC3OJYqjftUFmXfN8xoCogfw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds