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The Love-Less AshVac is the SAFE and CLEAN way to remove ash.
NEVER
use a household or shop vacuum for cleaning out your fireplace. Hot
embers can stay alive for days, hidden under ash, which acts like an
insulator. A hot ember sitting inside a paper filter bag, surrounded by
flammable household debris, is a recipe for disaster. This situation
can start a delayed fire, when you’re asleep or not at home. Very
dangerous!
The other problem is that ash is made of extremely
fine particles that a normal filter will not capture. The exhaust port
of the vacuum will spew the smallest particles throughout your house,
and if you don’t notice your house smelling like an ashtray, you will
notice when it comes time to dust, and there’s a fine gray dust coating
all your furniture.
The Love-Less AshVac was designed for safe,
clean and convenient cleaning of ash out of fireplaces, wood stoves,
pellet stoves and bio fuel (corn and wheat) stoves. It has been the
best selling ash vacuum for more than 20 years.
Every
component of the Love-Less AshVac is designed for safety. The 3-gallon
fireproof canister is made of rolled steel. The 5-foot hose and nozzle
are made of metal. The primary filter is fire-resistant up to 1,000°F.
Other components are fire-resistant thermoplastic. If the hose gets too
hot to hold with bare hands, stop vacuuming because the ashes are too
hot. Gloves are not the answer. Instead, wait until the ashes cool
more, and/or be sure to rest the nozzle on the firebrick, or base, so
you are removing fine ash from the bottom of the pile – not large
chunks of hot embers.
The patented filtration system is designed
for the cleanest possible removal of ash. The dual filters are
specially engineered to capture the finest ash particles to keep your
house clean and smelling fresh. You can even clean the filters without
opening the canister so no ash has a chance to escape. All you do it
jiggle the agitator rod on the lid to knock ash off the filters. The
canister stays closed.
• Fire-resistant components
• Fire-proof 3 gallon canister made from steel
• Patented dual filter system engineered to capture fine ash
• Clean filters without opening the lid
• For conventional stoves, pellet stoves, fireplaces, BBQ'S and bio fuel (corn and wheat) stoves.
What you can safely vacuum
We
advise that you always allow enough time for all embers to completely
die and cool off, and offer these guidelines to give you a feel for how
fire resistant our fabric filters are.
What we refer as a
“firefly” is unlikely to burn a hole in our filter. A firefly is like
the tiny spark that floats up out of a fireplace, and it glows for no
longer than a firefly – about a second before it burns out.
What
we refer to as a “cigarette” could potentially burn a hole in our
filter. It is a piece/chunk of partially burned fuel (wood or pellet)
that has a red hot glowing ember attached, much like a cigarette. These
carry enough fuel with them, that, if lodged against the filter, with
swirling air, could heat up and damage the filter.
If you need
to clean a pellet stove while the contents in the pot still seem warm,
the best way to ensure your AshVac only picks up only ash, and not
large hot embers, is to rest the nozzle at an angle directly on the
bottom of the pot, and then move it around so it sucks fine ash
particles from the bottom of the pile. The narrow opening between the
pot floor and nozzle allows ash through, but blocks larger material,
including hot embers that are large enough to be problematic.
Both
the Cheetah II and Cougar have all the above features Love-Less AshVacs
are famous for, but the Cougar has additional baffling for more quiet
operation.
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