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    Wire brush on metal chimney -- how bad to use once more?

    We moved into a house with a woodstove three years ago. We've had a chimney sweep come twice, and I'd like to try taking that on myself this year. The chimney is metal (shown in photos), and I've read here that a wire brush isn't recommended for metal chimneys (and that a SootEater is). But I'm...
  2. jatoxico

    Cleaning Day with the SootEater

    Given that this is the warmest day we are going to have for the foreseeable future I pulled out the Sooteater. Last cleaning was 10/29/16 so most of last season and close to half of this one. I point the rigid hose of my shop at the stove and would have run the other end out the door but too...
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