I am working on cleaning my chimney, have swept down from the top and now need to undo the pipe at the bottom in order to clean out the soot and perhaps sweep back up. However, I am unable to disengage the pipe section (second up from the stove top) where it is set to telescope. These sections are uninsulated, smooth black pipe and so nothing to grip and no way to exert leverage. I assume the joint inside is crusted/glued with creosote?
The stove is a small Vermont Castings Aspen, with sixteen or so feet of pipe running in a straight shot up from the stove top through a loft ceiling and out the roof. No elbows, no joints, nothing complicated. Uninsulated pipe to the first ceiling, stainless double insulated the rest of the way out.
I am generally competent, but this has me stumped. Is there something I have overlooked?
Thanks!!
Sarah
The stove is a small Vermont Castings Aspen, with sixteen or so feet of pipe running in a straight shot up from the stove top through a loft ceiling and out the roof. No elbows, no joints, nothing complicated. Uninsulated pipe to the first ceiling, stainless double insulated the rest of the way out.
I am generally competent, but this has me stumped. Is there something I have overlooked?
Thanks!!
Sarah