Today I'm going to show you just how easy it is to remove and clean
the glass window on a heating stove.
In this case we're working on a direct vent Napoleon gas stove.
You can see all the dirt that's on the glass.
But you can't rub it off.
It's hard to get off but it's also on the inside
because this is a sealed chamber and all that dirt is on the inside of the glass.
So, we have to remove the glass door in order to clean it.
So let's get started.
And, of course, you want to do all of this when the stove is cold.
Now to get the front off, there's a small retaining screw.
I keep mine loose so it comes off very easily.
And once you get that off, you can just lift off the front of the stove.
And you can see how dirty that glass is.
Standard oven cleaner is going to do a lot of the heavy lifting for this job.
We've also got a glass cooktop stove cleaner.
Of course we've got a standard glass spray cleaner.
But the real hero today is going to be the Meguiar's.
We'll get to that in a minute.
With a direct vent sealed stove,
you're going to have latches.
And those latches should be tight.
And they're holding the glass door
in a tight seal against the fire chamber and that's what you want.
So we're going to release those latches.
And you can see now the bottom just pulls away easily
and we can just lift the door off the stove.
And this thing's filthy.
And what we're going to do is we're going to lay the dirty side up.
We're going to begin with the oven cleaner.
Just shake it up real good.
Just work it in a little bit.
Make sure you get all the way out to the edges.
And it says for a cold surface to leave it on for six hours.
You can do that, but you'll probably get most of what you are going to get
after an hour or two.
And when you wipe it off you're going to see a lot of the dirt come off.
Now we're going to use the glass stovetop cleaner.
And just rub it in real good.
Make sure you get it into the edges.
Work it in.
Especially that top part where you've got real stubborn staining.
And let it dry.
And once it's dry, you can just wipe it off.
And you can see we're getting a really good clean surface here,
or at least it appears to be a good surface.
We'll go ahead and get the rest off with the glass cleaner.
But when I hold it at an angle,
you can see that there is still a haze on the glass.
And that's the real stubborn stuff.
Okay and what we're going to do today is, I did a test with this Meguiar's.
And i just gave it a little small spot to see what it would do and it worked.
But we're not going to do the entire glass by hand.
So I'm just going to use a small buffer head on a drill.
These are very inexpensive.
They're available for automotive and it just does a fantastic job.
And we're going to hit the top again because the top had most of the hazing.
So we're going to hit that again with the drill.
Okay, that's it. It didn't take too long.
But watch what happens when we're wiping this off.
Look what comes off on the rag.
Okay, that's your stubborn film right there.
So once we finish cleaning this up,
there's no shame in cleaning out the fire pit.
So I'm going to vacuum it out real quick.
Now we're ready to put the glass door back on.
And for direct vent stoves like this, we have a sealed chamber.
This part is fairly important.
You've got a lip here that hangs on an edge.
Watch it drop all the way down.
Okay and we're still not sealed.
You can see that gasket hanging down.
The way to tuck that up is, you just pull the base of the window away from the bottom
and just tuck the gasket up in there while it's loose.
And that way when you close it back down; you get a nice tight fit
between the gasket and the fire chamber, which is what you want.
Now we can latch the left.
And we can do the right latch.
And we're ready to put the front back on.
And we have to remember the retainer screw.
And put the top on.
And this stove hasn't been run for a while,
so we're going to go ahead and put it in pilot mode.
Press and hold that plunger down until gas comes through.
And now you hit the igniter.
And it looks like we got a good pilot light.
So just hold that down until it stays lit.
Then turn it to the on position.
And now we're ready to use the remote.
And it looks like we got a real good fire here.
We fixed a very dirty glass door.
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