Eatonpcat said:
briggsy13 said:
Eatonpcat said:
smwilliamson said:
You guys are nuts with your leaf blowers.....Yall understand that a vacuum and brush do the same thing and you dont need top be up on the roof with lawn tools.
Talk to me about the vacuum and brush...I'm not keen on heights (okay, I'm fraid), plus my chimney is free standing above my roof, meaning no roof to stand on, just ladder.
Off topic but you have a beautiful home!!
Thank You...
Again...Is it possible to clean the pipe from the bottom without making a giant mess??
Well it depends on how well you can both operate the brush and keep the area around the tee blocked off.
I've opened up the cap on my tee from inside a plastic bag and then elastic banded the bag to the tee and then operated the brush from the outside. Got some dirty paws. I couldn't imagine brushing it from the inside and keeping things fairly well sealed up. But then I'm not a chimney sweep.
If you have a disconnect system that allows you to hold the venting in a horizontal manner such as to not dump the ash you could get a flexible shaft brush into it and with help get a strong vacuum to catch what the brush dislodges.
There is a replacement tee cap that has an attached horizontal piece of pipe that you can connect a vacuum to but any brushing would have to be from the outside.
Maybe a super shop vacuum sealed to the combustion blower housing might be able to replace a leaf blower and get both the stove and venting cleaned.
Something to think about.