Cleaning an electric fireplace can be much less time consuming compared to cleaning other types of fireplaces such as wood burning fireplaces because there’s no real flame.

This means that you don’t need to deal with setting up and maintaining fires, as you would need to with wood burning fireplaces or stoves. There’s also no need to clean out the previous fire in order to begin starting a new one.

Electric fireplaces generate both the flames and heat artificially, and so do electric fireplaces need to be cleaned?

Electric fireplaces don’t typically require regular cleaning, but any dust that has built up within the inlet or outlet to the heater should be removed as and when required to ensure that the fireplace is working as efficiently and safely as possible.

We’ve discussed in more detail below whether electric fireplaces need to be cleaned and explained step-by-step how to can clean an electric fireplace, both on the exterior and the interior.

We also show what’s recommended for our electric fireplace stove in terms of cleaning and care of the product.