Chimney cleaning with capped tee - and sealed cleanout??

[Hawkeye1873]

I recently had my external chimney lined in prep for putting a wood stove back in. After the guy left, I find that the bottom cap seems to be screwed to the tee and the outside clean out door has been sealed shut with something. I can't figure out how we are supposed to clean our liner now except for renting a boom or scaffold every time to do it top down as the chimney is 8 feet above the very steep metal roof. Any advice?

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Clean it from the bottom. Remove the stove or go through the stove.

 

[kennyp2339]

You can take the black pipe off clean the pipe and stick a vacuum hose in the clean out to suck up the junk

 

[bholler]

My suggestion would be make them come back and extend the liner down to the cleanout. Yes you can clean through the crock with a rotary cleaner but it's a pain and you shouldn't have to

 

[Hawkeye1873]

Clean it from the bottom. Remove the stove or go through the stove.

From the wall collar it's 22 inches horizontal through the wall and then the 90 degree turn at the tee. I haven't found any cleaning rods that can accommodate that. Can anyone recommend one or another tool that could make that bend?

 

[Hawkeye1873]

My suggestion would be make them come back and extend the liner down to the cleanout. Yes you can clean through the crock with a rotary cleaner but it's a pain and you shouldn't have to

They won't return my calls asking about the sealed door, so I'm pretty sure they're not gonna fix the liner/add more liner below the tee unfortunately.

 

[bholler]

They won't return my calls asking about the sealed door, so I'm pretty sure they're not gonna fix the liner/add more liner below the tee unfortunately.

How did you pay them? Technically a working cleanout is required by code in your situation. It never really enforced but you could use it as leverage

 

[EatenByLimestone]

From the wall collar it's 22 inches horizontal through the wall and then the 90 degree turn at the tee. I haven't found any cleaning rods that can accommodate that. Can anyone recommend one or another tool that could make that bend?

My sooteater has made the 90 bend going from 6” to 5.5”.

 

[Kevin Weis]

They won't return my calls asking about the sealed door, so I'm pretty sure they're not gonna fix the liner/add more liner below the tee unfortunately.

How about an in-person visit to the dealer?