Been burning the VC insert heavy for a season and a half since last cleaning... nice day yesterday so I shut it down and rammed a brush up from inside...
Burned about 6 cord in it last winter, and nearly three cord so far this winter, with the wood/coal boiler in the basement heating the rest of the apartment building and domestic hot water.
Here's what I got... mostly looked like dead bat wings fluttering out of the flu opening... might have had a one pound coffee can about 3/4 full.
Let me say... I am 6'3/275 pounds. Running that poly brush up through 34 feet of chimney and back was all I wanted... much easier to push it down and pull it back up then it is to kneel on the floor, bend over, and muscle that thing inside the firebox. That said, 45 mile and hour wind gusts would have dissuaded spider man from going up on that roof yesterday.
Burned about 6 cord in it last winter, and nearly three cord so far this winter, with the wood/coal boiler in the basement heating the rest of the apartment building and domestic hot water.
Here's what I got... mostly looked like dead bat wings fluttering out of the flu opening... might have had a one pound coffee can about 3/4 full.
Let me say... I am 6'3/275 pounds. Running that poly brush up through 34 feet of chimney and back was all I wanted... much easier to push it down and pull it back up then it is to kneel on the floor, bend over, and muscle that thing inside the firebox. That said, 45 mile and hour wind gusts would have dissuaded spider man from going up on that roof yesterday.
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