Sweeping a chimney

Not sure I understand your setup, but I use a SootEater bottom-up in both of my stoves. Whether or not it will work for you depends on how you can approach it, I'd say. My SootEater has no problem going up the flue from outside either of my stove doors...but I did manage to break one rod early on when, in mid-sweep, I stood up because of a leg cramp and bent the rod to an acute angle while the drill was running. Pic shows a SootEater rod bent to a 180°, just to show what it's capable of doing in a static environment. Rick

heck that soot eater just looks liek weed wacker string, maybe i should sove my weed wacker up the chimney to clean it.

greythorn3 said:

heck that soot eater just looks liek weed wacker string...

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In fact, it is, and if you want to replace it, it's quite easily done if you get the correct diameter. There are set screws in the central ball that secure the strings.

My fiberglass rod won't bend through a 45° let alone a 90°.
Rods are for straight pipe runs. (maybe a minor bend)

Cool tool.
I can see how it goes thru a 90°,
but how do you get all of the dust & creo out that's laying in the horizontal pipe if you can't reach in far enough?

fossil said:

Not sure I understand your setup, but I use a SootEater bottom-up in both of my stoves. Whether or not it will work for you depends on how you can approach it, I'd say. My SootEater has no problem going up the flue from outside either of my stove doors...but I did manage to break one rod early on when, in mid-sweep, I stood up because of a leg cramp and bent the rod to an acute angle while the drill was running. Pic shows a SootEater rod bent to a 180°, just to show what it's capable of doing in a static environment. Rick

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re. the bold text above --- when you are sweeping or sooteating from below, I am assuming that you have access to the pipe bottom from outside. !?! If not, how do you stop the soot etc. from coming into the house?

The kit comes with everything necessary to keep the soot from entering through the stove door (plastic shield). But once I seen what they used, I quickly got something a little thicker. But its still just plastic. Run a shop vac through a hole in the plastic and wha-la.. No Soot/Dust.