Question about using brush to clean pipes in a basement install

[geek]

For those with basement pellet stove installs how difficult is getting the brush if you have a 90 degree elbow in the piping?

My stove is on first floor straight through the wall and then up vertically 3 feet, I removed the external piping and then used a brush to clean the pipe through the wall, I have a 45 degree elbow inside and it wasn't difficult to push the brush through, a bit of resistance but not much really.

So my 2nd stove will be in the basement with a vertical run inside up about 5 feet and then a 90 degree elbow and then out through the sill, wondering how difficult would be pushing a 3" brush from outside all the way down to the inside through the 90 degree elbow.

Thanks,

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[tinkabranc]

Should not be any more difficult than your first stove, just has a longer run.
My stove install is 5' up and 3' out and is easy to clean. The brush I have has a 10' flexible
rod on it so it can get around the bends easier.

 

[geek]

thanks tink, do you have a 90 degree elbow in your install then?

 

[tinkabranc]

thanks tink, do you have a 90 degree elbow in your install then?

Yes

 

[geek]

thanks, reason I was asking also is because I have a 90 degree elbow in the outside next to the cap and when I removed this pipes I could not push the brush through, I used a flex rod-brush also.

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[Xena]

Get a nylon flexible rod. It will do the bends.
Some of the rods that claim to be "flexible" are not.
I forget where I got mine but it was online somewhere.

 

[geek]

this is the one I bought:

(broken link removed to http://www.northlineexpress.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=5RU-17419)

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