Rutland Products Hearth and Grill Conditioning Glass Cleaner, 8 Fluid Ounce

Our wood stove is about 14 years old and have a clear glass window to view the fire through. Before today I would have said, "had" because the glass was so cloudy you couldn't really see the fire anymore, just glowing clouds. Over the years we've tried a few things to clean the glass and I thought it would need new glass or a significant clean and polish.I had watched a video where a guy soaked the glass in acid then used progressive grit and a random orbit sander to polish the glass. Even in that video the final result wasn't perfect.I ordered this expecting to be able to clean the worst of the haze off the upper portion of glass but not what I thought was hard etching on the lower portion of glass where hot ash and coal would build up over long cold snaps.I followed the directions and felt the top clean very easily but saw the cloudiness starting to clear up on the lower portion. I should have taken a before picture because after 15 minutes or so of minimal effort nearly the entire glass was amazingly clear.I probably need another 15-30 minutes of cleaning but I was rushing to get a fire built before it dropped back into the 20s over night so I'll have to do additional cleaning in a couple of days.As it stands, this small investment has made the fireplace look nearly new again already so even if this is the best it gets, I can't think of a time the glass looked this good in the last 10 years.Edit:I remembered I took a photo of the first fire of the season so I cropped it to have a similar comparison. This is not showing just how good the cleaner worked though. The glass was cleaned with a different cleaner so it was in ok condition, not like how it was before cleaning. But it does illustrate how much better this cleaner worked. The top is crystal clear now and there is a light haze in the corner and bottom center in my “after” photo. Will update with a new after photo after getting a little more cleaning action once it warms up.

Outstanding stuff! Cleaned off the most persistent soot on my fireplace insert glass door. Just rubbed a bit with a paper towel and abracadabra! Gone. I still follow up with a clean paper towel and some Windex. This stuff supposedly leaves some kind of silicon coating on the glass which will make it easier to clean, but as far as I can tell it just makes kind of hazy and foggy. Either way, I love it. Will use it on my glass top range next. Inside of the oven door? Yeah! That too probably.

I have a wood burning stove. I use this cleaner pretty often because I like my glass to be clear. It only takes one good fire for my glass to have at least some soot on it. If I don't burn too much and clean it right away then cleaning the glass is quick and easy. I find it also heavily depends on what type of wood I burn. When I mostly burn Madrone, it's really effective and easy. For oak, and other woods I find that I get a lot tougher soot that is harder to clean off. When I burn several times before cleaning the glass, I find that I need to scrape with a razor blade first to get the tough stuff off. I can then use this cleaner to clean it all up super nice.You can see in the photos how well the glass cleans up. Stove has been used for a season, and you can see how dirty the inside of the doors are and the glass would be if not for being cleaned with this cleaner.

My fireplace glass was covered in soot within a few weeks of use. Whipping it with wet newspaper, as the installer suggested, just didn't work well. So, I bought this brand of cleaner in spray form and found that it ran right off the glass and did not let me clean the glass thoroughly. This product, although probably made of the same ingredients, worked better because it is more of a cream and tends to stay where you place it. Unlike some reviewers have said, it does take some elbow grease/time to thoroughly clean a really sooty window, but you can eventually get it done. Now that the window is back to its original clarity, I clean it every few days with this stuff and it is easy-peasie to keep clean. Even the spray form works fine. So that is the trick. Keep on top of it, and save your elbow!

This product works so well for my pellet stove glass door. I have been using this product for years. No heavy ash build up on the doors glass.

This is my second year using this Rutland fireplace glass cleaner. You can see the two before photos of my fireplace door with the creosote buildup that is so thick it is opaque. The third photo shows the resulting clear glass after cleaning with this cleaner.The instructions said to shake the bottle, apply the cleaner with a towel, rub vigorously, and wipe off with a clean paper towel before the solution dries on the glass. The cleaner does soften the creosote, but for thick buildup like I had, it was so much faster and easier to scrape off the thick but softened buildup with a scraper type razor blade and then wiping off with a clean paper towel. In places where there were transparent brown stains on the glass, the cleaner took the stains right off with a slight bit of elbow grease.Without this cleaner, the buildup on my fireplace doors was too hard to scrape off even with the razor blade scraper I mentioned above. Again, this stuff softened the buildup enough that I was able to easily scrape off the buildup after applying and rubbing in the cleaner to let it work chemically on the buildup.Just know that this stuff does not work without some elbow grease unless you’re just trying to remove light stains from glass. It is a heck of a lot more effective than the spray cleaners I’ve used in the past: it’s better than even Rutland’s own spray type cleaner.

This product is the best wood-burning stove glass cleaner I have ever used. Recommended highly to everyone. Extremely easy to apply with just a paper towel. I dab it across the length of the glass and then begin wiping it clean. Hardly need any elbow grease at all. Love this stuff.