Yesterday morning I was cleaning our class A chimney from the roof of our story and half house. It was going just fine until the brush came off of the rod 3/4 of the way down. The brush had been stored on a rod and before I started and I neglected to make sure it was well threaded. After that Oh _ _ _ _ moment and feeling of dread it was ‘Ok, what now?’ Fortunately I could get a little space at the bottom from the telescoping stove pipe so the thought was to send rod all the way down and attach something to snag or catch the brush coming back up.
I didn’t want anything that would scratch up the pipe. First thing I did was walk around the barn work space looking for something that might pull up through the flue without scratching it up while capturing the brush. A length of schedule 40 4 inch pvc caught my eye. and the pic is what came of it. Lack of a suitable fine threaded nut led me to cut the female end off one of the spare spare rods and with a couple of washers it worked. My other fear proved groundless as I still caught the start of the Patriots game
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I didn’t want anything that would scratch up the pipe. First thing I did was walk around the barn work space looking for something that might pull up through the flue without scratching it up while capturing the brush. A length of schedule 40 4 inch pvc caught my eye. and the pic is what came of it. Lack of a suitable fine threaded nut led me to cut the female end off one of the spare spare rods and with a couple of washers it worked. My other fear proved groundless as I still caught the start of the Patriots game
