Well, the time has come to start thinking of starting up the stove and I found myself outside staring at the top of the chimney cap on a nice 60 degree wind free sunny day.... I went and grabbed a brush and a friend and we decided to clean the chimney liner ourselves and save $150. It went very well.. The only thing I found was that a 6" poly chimney brush does not like to fit inside a 6" stainless flexible liner... So I found a 5" one that worked great. Got a ton of debris down in the stove... Last year was the first year I started burning and I started after Christmas time. I know now that I was using very unseasoned wood and had a ton of cold starts. The chimney is now clean and I'm sitting in front of a nice warm fire right now keeping the chill out of the air.