Some jobs really are worth hiring someone to do them is the lesson there. They clean our oil furnace chimney from below but it is only one storey. (British spelling) Dwight E. Giles Jr. Wickford RI
On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 1:32 PM Dimitri via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I did that job once but from below. Same screw together type brush. I went > 40 feet to top of chimney. I covered everything in the room with plastic > and wore a respirator. I have little desire to do it again. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 5, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > We supplement our oil heat with wood, usually about 2 cords a year, > through a Jotul 118 stove in the basement. In a pinch the stove is enough > to keep the house comfortably warm without the furnace,its good backup. > > Normally we get the chimney cleaned every 2 years, I discussed this with > our chimney sweep, in fact it was his idea. We burn mostly hardwood and > since this is supplemental heat we burn the stove hot, never really damping > it down and creating creosote. > > Well somehow time has gotten away from us and we've gone 4 years. We've > got a handyman who was going to clean it (not our regular guy) but he's had > family issues. He got so far as to bring his chimney brush over and today > since its in the high '50s I thought I'd give it a shot. > > Problem 1: I'm not good with heightsProblem 2: His brush sucks, its the > screw together type and looks like it lived under the ocean for > awhile.Problem 3: Our roof is steep. I hadn't considered this before, its > real steep.Problem 4: Its hard to hold on to the sections of the brush > while feeding it down the chimney and adding sections and the sections are > too heavy to leave it all assembled. > > It must be really hard sweeping a 2 or 3 story house... > > Anyway I got it done at least somewhat. The clean-out had a bunch of > reddish powder in it and fortunately I didn't find any of the tar-like > stuff I associate with creosote. I feel confident we can finish out this > season but I'll definitely give our regular guy a nice tip next time he > does the job! > > -Curt > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
