chimney cleaning

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    Buck Model 81 - cleaning

    Hello, First season with the model 81 with stainless steel liner with insulation in our masonry chimney and looking at some advice from professionals. It was 72° here today and going to be slightly warmer this week. Hoping to take the baffle boards out and clean the stainless Steel liner. Does...
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    How often do you clean your liner? Any Tips?

    It looks like along with the yearly maintenance on my Harman Accentra I should clean the liner. 1. What tool do you recommend for a 4inch 25ft liner? I have this pellet stove/ dryer hose cleaner that I use in a smaller pellet stove, but I would hate to lose it somewhere up in the liner. 2 If...
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    Strange wind sound after chimney cleaned

    Hello, I had my chimney cleaned by a person I hired (retired guy doing odd jobs, not a professional) 2 days ago. He used a sweep from the roof top and was up there only a minute. Fine black powder was left in the wood stove box (no heavy creosote and barely needed cleaning). Now every fire I've...
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    Need advice on cleaning zero clearance Fireplace Extraordinair 36 chimney

    I need a little stovepipe cleaning 101 help as the last woodstove I used was pre-catalytic and the cleaning process involved running a brush down the pipe and scooping out the creosote pieces from inside the stove. The fireplace that I have now has a catalytic combuster and other parts that seem...
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    Cleaning Smoke Chamber - Clean Enough>

    I am cleaning my smoke chamber, still have to get around the smoke shelf. I am doing the cleaning prior to installing a liner. Does this look clean enough or do I need to do alittle more? Using a wire brush fairly lightly and a 6" chimney brush to reach toward the top.
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    Cleaning chimney with top butterfly damper

    The installation instructions for a drop-in top damper says: But it also says, I'm actually leaning toward getting a different top damper that looks like it will seal better, but the caulking instructions and caveats for the above damper leads to a question that applies to any butterfly style...
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    First Cleaning Using Soot Eater

    I'm about to do my first bottom up cleaning using the Soot Eater. I have a 6" liner that's a bit shy of 25' to the top. I think I'm good to go, I have the 18' of rods that come with it and an additional 2 rods. A couple of questions come to mind: - Do I need to have someone outside spotting...
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