true that.
poly brush, NOT steel.
and if you are lucky, you can get up past your damper plate, or refractory, and dont have an offset adapter.
I drop a rope with a bolt down my liner ( from the roof) reach up inside the insert, pull it into the firebox, pull the poly brush all the way down with the rope, and then goto the roof, and pull it all the way back up with the other rope.
takes about 20 minutes, I dont even get that dirty.
Poly brush costs about $15, adapter to tie a rope on it is about $4 more.
Thanks a lot guys, another question, have you ever heard of a pipe being cleaned with a chain?
This is my 3rd woodburner, there is nothing like em.
Heard of it, yes. Chain in a gunny sack and run up and down to clean a big ol' masonry chimney.
OR
Get a brush of appropriate material that fits your chimney snuggly, and know that you scrubbed it well, nothing will be left behind with a well fitted brush.
I use the fiberglass rods that screw together, and run it from the roof, once in the fall, once during the middle when the sun cleans the shingles of snow, and again at the end of the season.
There's a 6" hole on the opp. side of the current smokepipe entry, I can fit a mirror in the chimney and using a 1,000,000candle power spotlight it gives me a very clear view of the level of buildup, I do it at night from the basement, no sunlight to dilute the beam. This allows me to check it weekly without climbing, and after 8weeks there is barely 1/8" of dry,brittle, crusty fuzz.
Just one man's way.
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