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Smallholding => Equipment => Topic started by: Fishyhaddock on May 13, 2018, 02:52:05 pm

Title: Woodburner Glass
Post by: Fishyhaddock on May 13, 2018, 02:52:05 pm
Hi Everybody,


I was just wondering what people were using to clean the glass on their Wood Burning Stove?


We have been using the Stovax Clear Glass cleaner with only moderate success.


I am hoping there is a miracle product out there!!!


Thanks in advance.


Fishy  :fc: :fc:
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: Louise Gaunt on May 13, 2018, 05:18:34 pm
Not a miracle cure, but rubbing hard with a handful of screwed up newspaper works quite well.
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: TonyG on May 13, 2018, 06:25:59 pm
The screwed up newspaper works a lot better if wet and dipped in ash from the fire
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: PK on May 13, 2018, 07:03:22 pm
Agree with using some ash.
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: Ghdp on May 13, 2018, 11:08:57 pm
Hob bright cream (for cleaning halogen  stovetops)  We have used this for years. Works well for us
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: Buttermilk on May 14, 2018, 06:57:41 am
The Gallery stove and hob cleaner bought from Aldi.  Far superior to what we bought from the stove shop.
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: in the hills on May 14, 2018, 08:12:40 am
I rub with some newspaper or use a piece of damp kitchen roll dabbed in a little of the wood ash. It's never failed to remove the 'black'.
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: pgkevet on May 14, 2018, 09:54:07 am
If you really, really have a problem and are happy to take the glass out to sort it then either sugar soap and a nail brush or for the ultimate cleaner for difficult stuff there's a product called klingstrip. It's mainly meant as a paint stripper but is a poultice based product (alkalis in a clay base?). You layer it on, cover with plastic bags/cling film etc to keep it moist and wait from a  few hours to a couple of days (depending how bad) - then wipe and wash off.
I've used that to renovate an old marble fireplace and recently to clean many years of greasy filth from tile grout. Beware using such products with aluminium.

For cleaning the grout around the cooker it was effortless..trowelled on the grout lines with an old credit card, covered them with plastic, waited 24hrs - washed off to reveal white grout.
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: Foobar on May 14, 2018, 12:39:08 pm
Water, j-cloth & ash, daily.  We don't have any newspapers, lol.
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: Womble on May 14, 2018, 01:37:20 pm
You clean your stove??  :o
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: docsal on May 14, 2018, 02:48:55 pm
These are amazing - no chemicals and work perfectly every time - takes less than a minute and 2 last a full year!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cleaner-for-fireside-window-2pcs/dp/B005LD3DJG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1526305674&sr=8-2&keywords=woodburner+glass+cleaner (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cleaner-for-fireside-window-2pcs/dp/B005LD3DJG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1526305674&sr=8-2&keywords=woodburner+glass+cleaner)
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: Fleecewife on May 22, 2018, 07:22:27 pm
You clean your stove??  :o


I'm with you Womble - just turn the air up and make the fire roar and that burns off any black stuff from the glass.  I think we need a lying back under a sunshade icon  :eyelashes:
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: doganjo on May 23, 2018, 09:20:07 pm
You clean your stove??  :o
I've never cleaned mine either - turn the heat up :innocent:
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: Foobar on May 24, 2018, 09:55:15 am
Don't yours get even a little bit dirty around the edges of the glass?  Maybe it depends how big your glass is...
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: philcaegrug on May 24, 2018, 10:06:55 pm
newspaper with some vinegar works well on ours.(or so my wife says) :innocent:
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: Anke on May 29, 2018, 09:26:19 pm
kitchen towels and ahem…. spit, we don't have newspapers either...
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: doganjo on May 31, 2018, 02:42:57 pm
Don't yours get even a little bit dirty around the edges of the glass?  Maybe it depends how big your glass is...
I'm not that houseproud!  :innocent:
Title: Re: Woodburner Glass
Post by: Maysie on May 31, 2018, 04:37:08 pm
We clean our glass every couple of days with a damp sponge dipped in the ash and then wipe it with a piece of paper towel.  It has never needed anything stronger as the burnt on bits don't get chance to build up. 

I am a clean-glass freak though(!), as I like to see the full effect of the flames and it is an almost entirely glass-door modern stove.     

Our old ancient wood-burning contraption, which has now been sent to the metal recycling merchant in the sky, used to need Mr Muscle oven cleaner on the glass every single day, otherwise you couldn't even see if it was alight or not.