Having a Fire in Your Fireplace is Not Nearly As Romantic When You Can't See the Flames!

I have had a wood burning fireplace most of my life. I had tried a number of commercial products on the market with little success. The best thing I ever ran across was the following advice.

I used to work for a heating and air conditioning contractor and I headed up the fireplace and wood stove sales. I had worked there quite a while, selling all those commercial products to our customer. I would tell them how get they were, and how this was the best thing on the market. When an older gentleman began to tell me a simple and basically free way to clean the glass.

I took his advice, as crazy as it sounded and tried it at home on my fireplace.

You see my wife loves to have a fire almost every night. Don't get me wrong, I love a fire too, but I'm the one who has to haul in all the wood, start the fire and clean the ashes. She is the one that cleans the doors.

So any who, after trying his method and a little tweaking, she cleans the doors now very quickly and easily. Wouldn't you know it helped her on her end of the chore, but it didn't help me bring the wood in the house.

"Ashes Breaks down Ashes. "

That's what he told me. Once I thought about it, it made perfect sense. See when I was a kid, I worked in a restaurant cleaning the dishes. When coffee cups would come back to the kitchen with lipstick on them, we would use coffee to wipe them off with. The coffee would break down the coffee and lipstick stains on the cups. So I guess its kind of the same theory.

So here's what I've found that works the best. Take a non-abrasive glass cleaner, any kind will do. Spray down the glass with it. Don't wipe yet! Then spray down a crumpled up piece of newspaper in one spot pretty good. Then dip the wet part of the paper into your fireplace ashes. Wipe it in a circular motion on the glass. It will make a kind of paste. But as your wiping, the soot on the doors will begin to break down. Just do that all across the door surface and then wipe off. Then I spray the doors one more time with the glass cleaner and wipe off. It's the best thing I've found to clean my fireplace doors.

List of Items you'll need: Newspaper, Fireplace ashes, glass cleaner and paper towels.
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