I think our chimney cap is clogged. We have a magnaflex liner with deluxe rain cap. I can't tell at the moment, (because it's dark) but I think it's clogged in the cap mesh and I hope that it's nothing worse than that. We're getting smoke in the house and flashlight inspection shows that it just doesn't look quite right up there. We have been burning a little bit of iffy oak in the last couple weeks, as we were waiting on getting some additional wood until after the holidays and some weird weather events. We just got a foot of snow yesterday but it's likely to melt off in the next few days.
Hubs feels we should hire a pro to clean this for the first time. I am sure they will cost a pretty penny especially if they feel the cap needs replacing. This is a 6" insulated (insulflex) liner - and the stove has a bypass damper so I think it should be an easy clean for them. But we want to make sure whatever is up with the cap gets resolved. Do I tell the chimney cleaners what the setup is and will they charge us any less than if it were a regular masonry chimney?
(We have not cleaned it ourselves before, don't have the brushes and rods, and didn't do the install ourselves but had a handyman friend do it. We did have the masonry chimney cleaned in the past - it was pricey, as they installed a cap etc which they marked up some)
Hubs feels we should hire a pro to clean this for the first time. I am sure they will cost a pretty penny especially if they feel the cap needs replacing. This is a 6" insulated (insulflex) liner - and the stove has a bypass damper so I think it should be an easy clean for them. But we want to make sure whatever is up with the cap gets resolved. Do I tell the chimney cleaners what the setup is and will they charge us any less than if it were a regular masonry chimney?
(We have not cleaned it ourselves before, don't have the brushes and rods, and didn't do the install ourselves but had a handyman friend do it. We did have the masonry chimney cleaned in the past - it was pricey, as they installed a cap etc which they marked up some)