How to Clean a Gas Fireplace, Glass Front?

[Jeff Erbele]

I use this:

http://www.amazon.com/Rutland-Hearth...N%3DB00120NMNY



Burn them "hot", not how. It's applicable to the other tens of thousands of members that might read this thread with the same problems that are burning wood.

Thanks for clarifying and the link. That makes sense and understood.

[Brad Adams]

The Rutland cleaner is the best I have used. The fireplace is not properly adjusted if it has soot on the glass or in the firebox.

[Bob Rufener]

We have a wood burning fireplace and I have always used ammonia and water with good results.

[Dan Hintz]

Yep, Rutland user here, as well... received an 8 oz. bottle with the pellet stove 4 years ago and it's still half full.

[Bill Cunningham]

Brasso... Smear it on, wait for 5 min. then wipe it off.. The tougher stuff will come off with a razor blade scraper.. I have used Brasso on wood burning fireplaces, pellet and corn stoves.. It takes the burned on black of the tempered fireplace glass..

[Glenn Kramer]

White vinegar. Cheap, natural, no chemicals and it works!

[Jeff Erbele]

Nothing to contribute as it seems you have tired about everything imaginable. I would think some of the things you have tired could actually etch the glass and aggravate cleaning the soot off. Smooth glass I know can be a pain ( I have one like your I think - and burn wood in it) to clean. It would make seems that anything that would slightly etch the glass surface would give the baked on soot something to grip to and become especially hard to remove.

I don't know what you have but if you burn wood, yours is not the same. Mine is a Heat & Glo, natural gas fired.
Years ago in a previous house I had an Earth Stove (brand), a wood burner. That had a fire brick liner and much thicker steel.
The tin box around this gas fire place is maybe as thick as a tin can. Trying to burn wood in it would be a disaster and winner of the Darwin Award for the decade

Understood about etching the glass. I think it is more of a matter of baked-on build up. Last time I cleaned it, I made substantial progress but not perfection before I called it good enough because the progress made came with a lot of time and effort. It sounds like the Creekers' suggested a variety of purpose formulated products that work, plus a few alternatives that may work too.

[Wade Lippman]

My wood burning stove cautions not to clean the glass; normal operation will keep it clean. And it does.

I guess I would ask the manufacturer.