Shop vac to clean BBQ ashes?
Mark Shapiro
over the years. It's messy and time consuming,
and not lots of fun - Googling shows there
are lots of Australian companies that do
this for people.
But not in the States. Has anyone used
a shop vac to clean out ashes - BBQ or
fireplace?
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Kevin McMurtrie
ma...@mail.goguys.com (Mark Shapiro) wrote:
> I have a built-in BBQ that accumlates ashes
> over the years. It's messy and time consuming,
> and not lots of fun - Googling shows there
> are lots of Australian companies that do
> this for people.
>
> But not in the States. Has anyone used
> a shop vac to clean out ashes - BBQ or
> fireplace?
Ash dust has an amazing ability to damage machinery by wicking the oil
out of moving parts and clinging to slippery plastic. I tried vacuuming
ashes using an anti-allergen cloth vacuum cleaner bag that was too full
for normal use. Just enough ash got through the bag to jam the buttons
on the vacuum cleaner body.
Dampen the ashes then shovel it out.
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Pete Fraser
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> But not in the States. Has anyone used
> a shop vac to clean out ashes - BBQ or
> fireplace?
I use a shop vac all the time for my fireplace.
I take care not to use it for liquids.
There's never a problem.
Pete
rbl
The chimmney sweep service used a shop vac in my living room. I saw
the dust blow right out the exhaust. However, I had better luck later
on my own when I upgraded the filter to the washable pleated hepa-
style filter and the leakage is much less.
Theron
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Jeff Liebermann
wrote:
>"Mark Shapiro" <ma...@mail.goguys.com> wrote in message
>news:1j2g8rf.10lnxxh1kpjoxuN%ma...@mail.goguys.com...
>
>> But not in the States. Has anyone used
>> a shop vac to clean out ashes - BBQ or
>> fireplace?
>I use a shop vac all the time for my fireplace.
Same here with a few problems. I sometimes vacuum around the wood
burner. As long as there are no cinders floating around, it works
fine. No dust out of the exhaust. However, when I did suck up a
burning cinder, the vacuum cleaner bag caught fire, belching some
flames and plenty of smog out the exhaust. One would suspect that the
lesson would be obvious, but I've done it 3 times.
>I take care not to use it for liquids.
Agreed. I have a small shop-vac (5 gallon drum) that I use around the
workshop. It's mostly used for sawdust. However, I once used it to
cleanup a wet mess, and ended up with a botanical garden inside the
drum. Along with the green slime, came the swamp smell. It's now an
outdoor shop-vac.
The problem with barbeque ashes is that there's probably considerable
grease mixed in. The few barbeque's I've cleaned required scraping a
solid mass of ashes out of the ash bucket. One cleanup required
pounding on a screwdriver to break up the "ashcrete" boulders (because
it had been sitting about 5 years). If you're lucky enough to have
only loose ash, then use the shop-vac. Otherwise, get out the garden
shovel and elbow grease.
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Sqwertz
> I have a built-in BBQ that accumlates ashes
> over the years. It's messy and time consuming,
> and not lots of fun - Googling shows there
> are lots of Australian companies that do
> this for people.
>
> But not in the States. Has anyone used
> a shop vac to clean out ashes - BBQ or
> fireplace?
You are, what we call in the United States, "mentally Retarded".
(.au and .ns have become quite the haven for fucktards)
-sw