I'm thinking, "Man, I love my woodstove! It satisfies my deep seated needs to be warm and set things on fire at the same time!"
Now the problem. At some point I have to clean the chimney. I'm one of the people who's class A has a T and then two 30 degree elbows to run around some structural stuff, so it's a pain. Not a huge one, but enough that I'm looking at rods and wondering how much abuse they'll put up with. Reasonably I could clean the top portion before the elbow, then clean the T which immediately goes into an elbow and not stress the rods too much.
Then I had a brilliant idea: Why mess with rods - AT ALL?
Why not just buy a brush, tie a rope to it, toss the rope down the pipe and pull the whole thing through? Do it two or three times for that nice clean feeling. I admit - I got the idea from those pull a patch kits for cleaning guns since it is hunting season here. Anyone else try something similar?
Now the problem. At some point I have to clean the chimney. I'm one of the people who's class A has a T and then two 30 degree elbows to run around some structural stuff, so it's a pain. Not a huge one, but enough that I'm looking at rods and wondering how much abuse they'll put up with. Reasonably I could clean the top portion before the elbow, then clean the T which immediately goes into an elbow and not stress the rods too much.
Then I had a brilliant idea: Why mess with rods - AT ALL?
Why not just buy a brush, tie a rope to it, toss the rope down the pipe and pull the whole thing through? Do it two or three times for that nice clean feeling. I admit - I got the idea from those pull a patch kits for cleaning guns since it is hunting season here. Anyone else try something similar?