today we're going to be cleaning a wood-burning stove you want to make sure that you've closed your dampeners and that's your coals are completely cold certainly nothing red it should be cool to the touch just use a inexpensive shovel here privatised shovel to shovel up the ashes and put them into a middle area box any type or configuration just as long as it's fireproof much of this thing out of your firebox as possible once you've done that use a six-inch scrape go around your firebox and pull everything from the edges and so on and so forth every place you couldn't reach with the shovel particularly in the front and along the sides and then sweep it into the drop that goes into your ash catch box below if you've got a whole lot built up in there you can also use your shovel like a dustpan now that that's done it's time to dump the ashes into the catch box below this model has a hammer in the front has to be turned several times make sure all the ashes out of there now we'll open up in our backyard now this is an actual annasmith and Google filter you can use a shopback but if you do you should put your secondary filter on the outside because ash is very fine into the clog the pleated filter extremely fast around the edges get between the bricks you know good air circulation go ahead and vacuum out the front ledge if you have one just any place it has AG and now around the door at the door seal real well get all that cash off the door want that nice and clean now I'm pointing out here a few points where debris has fuse to the brick from the heat we're not going to clean that off today but we are going to clean the door because there's some soot here and this is a lot easier than you might think he use a two to one vinegar and water solution mist it lightly don't use too much then get one paper towel or a crumpled up piece of newspaper then with just the slightest a little bit of elbow grease start cleaning don't turn your paper towel too often because the suit actually works as an abrasive that helps you clean the foot off the glass and there we go we'll get all of that off and now we'll give it one light mist and a clean paper towel or another sheet of newspaper and polish that glass up that's going to enhance your fireplace experience be able to watch the fire through there it's also good when you're building a fire to see what's going on polish that all around the edges and there it is nice and shiny and clean squeaky clean and we're done