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.
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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
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