Sooteater Before and after

[Captain]

Well guys, my chimney was pretty bad. I've been burning with an older Buck 27000, and man is this thing dirty. I've been burning since october and this is how things looked. I used my Sooteater today to clean it out. It seems to work pretty good.

What are your guys' thoughts?

The one on the left is before clean, right is after clean.

 

[Captain]

Dirty Cap

 

[Captain]

Clean Cap

 

[Captain]

This is what was in the stove after I was done. Seems like a lot to me but I'm a rook.

 

[Captain]

Another Shot of just how bad it was.

 

[carp]

I'll stick to traditional brushes.

 

[Captain]

Another Shot of just how bad it was.

how come this px dont look like the first ones?

Well I guess because it is shot at a different angle. I should have tried to get that angle when it was clean for a better comparison. I only have 13 feet from stove top to chimney top and I had a good pile of creosote so I know it got a lot out of the chimney. I'm pleased and when I fired the stove up and I opened it wide open to the point where it used to make the stove pipe start crackling with the creosote catching fire and I had none of this so I'm pretty confident about how clean it got it.

 

[fossil]

I ordered a kit, and am awaiting its delivery. I figured it had to do something. I'm counting on it for a mid-season bottom-up sweep when I don't want to go up top on a snow-covered 7/12 pitch tile roof. Summertime I'll do the more rigorous traditional brush sweeping. Thanks for the report, I'll do the same. Rick

 

[Captain]

I ordered a kit, and am awaiting its delivery. I figured it had to do something. I'm counting on it for a mid-season bottom-up sweep when I don't want to go up top on a snow-covered 7/12 pitch tile roof. Summertime I'll do the more rigorous traditional brush sweeping. Thanks for the report, I'll do the same. Rick

You're welcome. Curious to see your results. I did mine from the top down so it would contain the dust better and that seemed to work good. I didn't have much of a mess at all, lol except in the stove.

A good tip that the book points out is to seal off the pipe joints. I took masking tape and did that to my interior pipe and it seemed to work pretty good as there was no dust in the house and when I took the tape off when I got done there was dust on the tape.

 

[savageactor7]

So Captain that's the weedeater like appliance we were talking about last week? what was your impressing about hooking up the rods. did the drill have enough power? Did you clean from the bottom or top any other personal impressions as to how it compares with a conventional brush? btw except for the cap I thought your chimney shows pretty much normal use.

(I'm thinking we should have all chipped in and scored one of these for Gooserider...he'll give us the skinny.)

edit, huh.... I thought Ohio was pretty much covered with snow.

 

[Captain]

So Captain that's the weedeater like appliance we were talking about last week? what was your impressing about hooking up the rods. did the drill have enough power? Did you clean from the bottom or top any other personal impressions as to how it compares with a conventional brush? btw except for the cap I thought your chimney shows pretty much normal use.

(I'm thinking we should have all chipped in and scored one of these for Gooserider...he'll give us the skinny.)

edit, huh.... I thought Ohio was pretty much covered with snow.

Yes I believe it is the ones that were dicussed last week and yeah it is kind of like a weedeater head.

I thought the rods go together good and are sturdy at the joints but they don't release as easy as I think they should. There is a tool that comes with it to take them apart and I think a more simple button you push with your fingers would be easier as your hands get full trying to hold the drill and rods and the tool at once. Not terrible though but could be better.

I have a 14.4 Makita drill and it plenty of power to do the job. And yeah I went up top and cleaned down and I think it saved a lot of dust in the house doing it that way.

This is my first time cleaning any chimney so I have no comparisons to make.

Glad to hear it looked like normal use nobody has commented on that yet and I was wondering. The cap is bad huh?

Hope this helps and if you or anybody have more ?'s I'm glad to help.

 

[atvdave]

I too just used my sooteater today. I'll post my review later today as well. I do agree that the rod's are kinda hard to disconnect with your hands already full, but no biggie.