Sooteater vs Brush in a drill.

I am in the same boat.

My chimney looks plenty clean after a manual brushing, I don't see that I could possibly get that much more gunk out of it even with Inspector Gadget arms and some brillo pads. Planning to just keep on dancing with what brought me to the show.

English BoB said:

Just watched the Sooteater vidio which uses a "special head - cut to size " and rods that quick connect together and when placed in a DRILL can be used to clean a chimney.

I use a regular brush " sized to flue " with screw connect rods and pull them backwards and forwards. The tines are made of twisted wire with little nobs on the end.

I wonder how my brush would work in a drill.

Has anyone tried this ?

PS, my brush works fine, so I will not be purchasing a sooteater, Never did look at the price.

Bob

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Can you add a link of west exactly you use or where to buy with pictures? Thanks......

English BoB said:

Just watched the Sooteater vidio which uses a "special head - cut to size " and rods that quick connect together and when placed in a DRILL can be used to clean a chimney.

I use a regular brush " sized to flue " with screw connect rods and pull them backwards and forwards. The tines are made of twisted wire with little nobs on the end.

I wonder how my brush would work in a drill.

Has anyone tried this ?

PS, my brush works fine, so I will not be purchasing a sooteater, Never did look at the price.

Bob

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You shouldn't need any extra spinning with a regular brush, just pushing it down through the flue and pulling in back up again should be all that is necessary to dislodge the built up soot from your chimney. Those Sooteater brushes have very few, flexible bristles compared to regular chimney brushes and require a spinning motion like that is necessary in order to remove all the loose creosote on the walls of flue. I don't think it would be a good idea at all to use a drill to "scub" the walls of your flue with a regular wire brush because it would just prematurely wear out the inner liner of your stainless steel flue. All you generally need to do when cleaning your chimney is remove any loose build up of light feathery creosote and that stuff is usually about as hard to remove as wiping soap suds off a baby's back.

I love my sooteater. I am hoping for weather to break soon to do a mid winter cleaning. True, it's so flexible on the bends of the pipe. I'm still trying to figure out a decent way to keep the soot from dropping in my face as I clean.

vixster said:

I love my sooteater. I am hoping for weather to break soon to do a mid winter cleaning. True, it's so flexible on the bends of the pipe. I'm still trying to figure out a decent way to keep the soot from dropping in my face as I clean.

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Tape or bungee cord a plastic bag over the end of the chimney, the punch a small hole for the brush rod to go through. Work through the plastic bag so it collects all the dust and crap.

At least that's the way I plan to do it after watching a couple youtube videos.

Good luck.

FTG-05 said:

Tape or bungee cord a plastic bag over the end of the chimney, the punch a small hole for the brush rod to go through. Work through the plastic bag so it collects all the dust and crap.

At least that's the way I plan to do it after watching a couple youtube videos.

Good luck.

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I've tried this. Problem is the drill grabs the bag and or tape. I've been trying different collars as well such as a plastic milk jug and tape a bag to that. But then you have to keep taking bag on and off with crap inside to extend next rod.

It's a messy job. Sometimes I make a big mess and sometimes not. I might try a Sooteater at some point.