Please be careful with not cleaning a wood stove chimney & flue. 14 years, wow! To me, seems unlikely that creosote has not built up during that time. There is no way to stop creosote from forming, and it doesn't disappear on it's own. It accumulates. As smoke cools and encounters moisture creosote is formed. While burning good dry hardwood, nice & hot certainly reduces the build up of creosote, it is still a byproduct of burning wood. If there's smoke, there's creosote. While reducing air intake at your clean out door helps the temperature of your chimney, the smoke does still cool as it rises up. Sooty creosote is easy enough to clean out, as are dry flakes. But once creosote becomes hard shiny and baked repeatedly, it can be near impossible to clean out. My friend, a mason, has rebuilt chimneys due to this.
Just be real sure your chimney is clean. Staying ahead of creosote is a major part of a properly maintained chimney.
Unfortunately at this time of year and on, the nightly news seems full of stories of house / chimney fires from wood stoves, sometimes tragic. Saw one report already the other night.
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