Hi All...
Hope you're enjoying your shoulder season burning... or not burning!
I finally dragged my lazy rear end out to the side of the house to attempt my first chimney cleaning. When I mean chimney, I mean a through-the-wall system from my wood stove, through the wall, and straight up abot 15 feet. The cap is too far up from the top of the roof for me to get all the way up there to try to clean if from the top, so I was attempting to clean it from the cap at the bottom.
My dad has a similar system with a much smaller box, and keeps saying that his chimney barely has anything in it when he's had pros come out to scrape it down. He only has it done very few years, and the guy has often said it didn't really even need it... but, I digress.
So, I was out there today, took the cap off of the "T" elbow, and put my Rutland system up the hole. Tons of junk came out of the first few feet, but then the brush became stuck, and wouldn't travel any further up the pipe. The fairly rigid rod began to flex, and I couldn't get enough strength behind it to get the thing up there any further to do the job. It was useless.
Here are my several questions...
1. Has anyone had this dilemma? Did you come up with any solutions?
2. Does tons of soot necessarily mean creosote? Meaning... just because there was tons of soot, do you think that this means that I should expect a good amount of creosote also?
Anyway, thanks for reading, and any suggestions you may have!
Hope you're enjoying your shoulder season burning... or not burning!
I finally dragged my lazy rear end out to the side of the house to attempt my first chimney cleaning. When I mean chimney, I mean a through-the-wall system from my wood stove, through the wall, and straight up abot 15 feet. The cap is too far up from the top of the roof for me to get all the way up there to try to clean if from the top, so I was attempting to clean it from the cap at the bottom.
My dad has a similar system with a much smaller box, and keeps saying that his chimney barely has anything in it when he's had pros come out to scrape it down. He only has it done very few years, and the guy has often said it didn't really even need it... but, I digress.
So, I was out there today, took the cap off of the "T" elbow, and put my Rutland system up the hole. Tons of junk came out of the first few feet, but then the brush became stuck, and wouldn't travel any further up the pipe. The fairly rigid rod began to flex, and I couldn't get enough strength behind it to get the thing up there any further to do the job. It was useless.
Here are my several questions...
1. Has anyone had this dilemma? Did you come up with any solutions?
2. Does tons of soot necessarily mean creosote? Meaning... just because there was tons of soot, do you think that this means that I should expect a good amount of creosote also?
Anyway, thanks for reading, and any suggestions you may have!