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c/chimney-sweepscraig.milacraig.mila1mo agoMost Upvoted

The rotary brush I swore by, switched to rods after a week in Tacoma

I used to think spinning brushes were the only way to actually clean a flue, then a masonry stack with heavy creosote just laughed at my setup for 40 minutes. Grabbed a set of rods and hand brushes from the truck, got the same flue done in 15. Anybody else ditch the spinning heads for the old school approach on rough brick?
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tara793
tara7931mo ago
Forty minutes on one flue? That spinning head must have been just polishing the creosote. I would've tossed it in the creek after five minutes on a rough stack like that. Rods give you that real feel for what's happening up there, you know exactly when you're scraping vs just smearing it around.
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