Well, it was my first winter with the wood insert and now I'm looking to get the liner cleaned before the chimney sweeps get busy this fall. I had a sweep come over and he said he could only clean the liner if the insert was removed. He said because of the way it was installed, he wouldn't be able to do it for $100 that he quoted me initially over the phone.
I'm going to call the folks who installed the insert to see what they say but I wanted to post something on the forum first. Do you have to remove an insert before cleaning the chimney? The sweep was going to clean from the bottom up... maybe if you clean from the top down you don't have to remove anything?
-Andre
I'm going to call the folks who installed the insert to see what they say but I wanted to post something on the forum first. Do you have to remove an insert before cleaning the chimney? The sweep was going to clean from the bottom up... maybe if you clean from the top down you don't have to remove anything?
-Andre