Rant: Spotted a giant bird nest during my sweep yesterday

I was cleaning a chimney with bad draft. My inspection camera found a nest jammed in the flue. I grabbed a rod and a bag to get it out without a mess. How do you deal with nests?

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the_jamie6mo ago

That rod method can backfire, push stuff deeper into the flue. A chimney brush with stiff bristles works better for a jammed nest. Attach it to rods and scrub it down into your bag at the bottom. The key is breaking it apart without shoving it up into the smoke shelf.

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masongonzalez6mo ago

My cousin in Vermont tried that rod trick once. He ended up with so much debris in his smoke shelf it looked like a bird condo. Your brush method sounds like a way to avoid hosting unwanted guests. I guess the key is to not turn your chimney into a storage unit. Some lessons are learned the hard way, usually with a lot of sweeping.

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victor2096mo ago

Read a story where that brush method saved someone's whole fireplace.

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