Cleaning chimney with 30 deg elbows

[farmboy05]

I just had my chimney installed. The installer had to put in two 30 degree elbows right next to each other on my 2nd floor to get it to jog over so it would fit between my rafters (12" on center btw ). I'm planning on buying a chimney brush so I can do some light cleaning from the bottom up once or twice during the winter to keep ahead of any possible creosote, but I'm still plan on having the guy come out once a year to do a full good cleaning. Can the standard wire and fiberglass brush work around this jog? or does it take a special brush/top down cleaning only?

 

[DAKSY]

A standard brush should work, but you're going to need FLEXIBLE brush rods to get thru the offsets.

 

[johneh]

My chimney also has a 30 deg offset
I have been using the nylon brush on
flexible fiberglass poles and have never
had a problem

 

[KD0AXS]

I also have 2 30° elbows. 6 inch round poly brush and the regular fiberglass rods go right through the elbows with no problem.