Antique wood stoves are a lovely addition to your home that will provide your family with warmth and comfort during the cold winter months. If you have functioning antique wood stoves in your home, you should make sure to perform regular preventative maintenance and cleaning to make sure that they are always working when you need them.
Cleaning Soot and Ash
The antique wood stoves in your home are not as clean to use as the modern wood burning stoves. This will require you to clean up the soot and ash that will collect around and inside your stove. If you are using the stove for warmth, make sure that you empty the ash at least once a month to prevent build up.
You will also have to clean the area surrounding the antique wood stoves. The chimney that is attached to the stove should remove most of the smoke and soot from your home, but you will still find that the walls and floors can become sooty around the antique wood stoves. To avoid the buildup of soot, keep the area surrounding the stoves clean. Your furnishings may also become sooty with these older stoves. Regularly clean the furnishings and carpets around the stoves.
Chimneys
A professional chimney sweep can clean out the buildup in your chimney and prevent the smoke and soot from being dispersed inside your home. Hiring a professional chimney sweep once or twice a year will keep your chimney in good condition and ensure that you are not burning the antique wood stoves under dangerous conditions. The chimney is an important safety feature on the stoves that must be maintained.
Be sure that you are keeping the antique wood stoves clean and in good working order to keep your home safe. Regular maintenance will ensure that the ash is well managed and that there is no dangerous smoke leaking into your home from the chimney. With a little bit of care, these stoves are a wonderful way to keep warm all winter long.
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