Chimney Brush

[jbrown56]

Hi, In the past, I've used a flat wire brush to clean my clay flue liner as it always did a real good job. I now have a rigid ss liner and am wondering if the flat wire brush will be too abrasive on the new liner because I would like to use the flat wire brush on the black steel pipe also.

Thanks, Jim

 

[BrotherBart]

Most people use stiff poly brushes with stainless rigid and flex liners. Myself included, though I have used wire brushes and they did fine. Dragging stiff brushes down liners that only contain soot with no scrubbing needed to remove flaked creosote hasn't been making a lot of sense to me from a wear and tear on the liner perspective. I have ordered a six inch "prefab chimney" brush that has softer bristles and is made for prefab fireplace chimneys. It will be here tomorrow and I will report results on how it does brushing out soot.

 

[jbrown56]

Thanks BB

Jim