Maybe a drill motor and flex shaft is in order but I'd still like to see the termination cap on the roof. I have that issue with mine (termination cap getting clogged up) as well. That is especially true if it is a screened from flying birds cap. Mine isn't but will still load up with fly ash. With an outside the wall vent and turn out that rarely happens because one, the venting path isn't that long and 2, the turn out will self clean to a certain extent (and discolor the siding on a house as well). Seen that a lot. House a couple miles from here has that issue. White siding and brown doughnut around the venting termination. Looks like hell actually.
After almost 400 posts we have to be very close....... Running out of viable options. If a little' roto rooting' with a drill motor and flex shaft don't do it, I'd really suspect the termination cap then.
Actually, anything flexible and able to chuck in a drill motor would do. Short length of fish tape, or even a twisted wire bottle brush would work. Something to 'bang around' in there and knock off whatever is inside, but, I would pull the exhaust blower motor and fan and stick a vacuum crevice tool inside the passage before hand to suck out anything that might get knocked loose.
Always been against inside venting and cleanout Tees for the filth issue. Always been my impetus to get the vent outside in as short a distance as practical and have the cleanout Tee outside.... That thread comes to mind a while back where the owner put the wrong end of the leaf blower on his inside cleanout tee and filled the house with fly ash. it ain't good on painted walls, especially light colored ones.
I remember seeing that picture way back when.... Hard to keep track with so many pages. Went back and looked. What I found interesting about that picture was the amount of rust on the internal parts and cabinet, like the unit lived in a damp environment all it's life. Mine is 15+ years old and don't look anything like that inside. Kind of struck me as odd.
After almost 400 posts we have to be very close....... Running out of viable options. If a little' roto rooting' with a drill motor and flex shaft don't do it, I'd really suspect the termination cap then.
Actually, anything flexible and able to chuck in a drill motor would do. Short length of fish tape, or even a twisted wire bottle brush would work. Something to 'bang around' in there and knock off whatever is inside, but, I would pull the exhaust blower motor and fan and stick a vacuum crevice tool inside the passage before hand to suck out anything that might get knocked loose.
Always been against inside venting and cleanout Tees for the filth issue. Always been my impetus to get the vent outside in as short a distance as practical and have the cleanout Tee outside.... That thread comes to mind a while back where the owner put the wrong end of the leaf blower on his inside cleanout tee and filled the house with fly ash. it ain't good on painted walls, especially light colored ones.
I remember seeing that picture way back when.... Hard to keep track with so many pages. Went back and looked. What I found interesting about that picture was the amount of rust on the internal parts and cabinet, like the unit lived in a damp environment all it's life. Mine is 15+ years old and don't look anything like that inside. Kind of struck me as odd.
