soot doors is provide to clean the outside of the water tubes and to remove the soot.
I would try using glass doors for your fireplace. They can easily be cleaned with Windex or anything like that. The heat also will not transfer to the doors as much.
If these antique glass doors were not designed for fireplace use then soot and smoke could damage the glass. I would remove them or place another fireplace glass barrier between the fire and the antique doors. If they were designed for use in a fireplace then they should stand up to the soot and smoke from your fire and I would make sure to clean them frequently to avoid build up.
Soot's plural is soot.
Soot is typically black in color.
The homophone for soot is suit.
I think soot and smog come from the air pollution.
soot
You still have some soot on the very tip of your nose.
Soot is the product of an incomplete combustion of carbon.
Be wary of that soot on the hearth.
Botten Soot died in 1958.
Eyolf Soot was born in 1858.