How long do you guys scrape your chimney for? I'm pretty determined to get mine very clean but I wondering how overboard I'm going. Does running the brush for 20 minutes on a 17ft run sound about right?
A good brush should be tight enough that it only goes one direction and has no wiggle room for back and forth motions. Any play in the brush and you are doing all the work yourself and not letting the brush do its job.Maybe some slight back and forth motions as I'm going up or down....but nothing fancy.
i was just wondering about that,,,, I cannot reverse direction on my brush until it goes all the way thru.A good brush should be tight enough that it only goes one direction and has no wiggle room for back and forth motions. Any play in the brush and you are doing all the work yourself and not letting the brush do its job.
The loose sooty stuff should just fall right off. If there is something nasty enough to warrant scraping, a brush probably isn't going to easily cut it. Are you just doing routing cleaning or are you trying to get something abnormally sticky or gooey?
I just go straight up with the SootEater and run it back down with rotation in the opposite direction. If I used a brush it would I would just go up, then down....then done. Maybe some slight back and forth motions as I'm going up or down....but nothing fancy.
We have a a straight run of about 20 ft. I run the brush down it just once and pack it up, takes just a couple minutes and I don't think it'd get any cleaner if I ran it through another time or two. I guess it depends on people's setup and wood. I don't get much creosote at all so I just clean it once a year in the Fall.
What do you consider not a lot of creosote?
Wow - 20 minutes! Sounds like overkill to me. I have about a 20 foot straight run. I just run the brush up and down once or twice a few feet while rotating it each time I add a 3' section of rod until I get all the way to the bottom, then pull it up as I disassemble the rod. Probably takes all of 5 minutes not including cleaning the chimney cap, which takes a few more minutes, or getting up on the roof and back down.How long do you guys scrape your chimney for? I'm pretty determined to get mine very clean but I wondering how overboard I'm going. Does running the brush for 20 minutes on a 17ft run sound about right?
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