Sorry to go to a subject I though was answered last year, but I got stopped again this year. Also, I can't find threads I started last year, searching on subject like "chimney cleaning" and "chimney brush" hasn't turned up any of the posts I'd like to re-read. When I search on my "handle" I seem to get only threads I was involved with this year, and there haven't been very many.
The problem is I could not get a heavy duty plastic 6" round brush up past the jog back from the top of my Quadrafire Insert and the 6" SS pipe run up my masonry chimney. What I remember from last year was it was suggested I get a medium duty, which has smaller diameter (less stiff) bristles. Digging through my tool box I came up with a 6" very stiff brush that had the lower half cut off, it would not go up the chimney. I also found a medium duty that was full, not bristles removed. I couldn't get it past the jog-back bend either. With may poor memory, I now wonder if I somehow forced the cut down heavy duty or the medium duty up the chimney last year. I do remember getting the brush up to what felt like the top... I have 28' of rods and think that reaches the chimney cap.
I am now thinking I may need to try the Sooteater or similar, anything that doesn't have a form that is supposed to fill the diameter of the liner.
The problem is I could not get a heavy duty plastic 6" round brush up past the jog back from the top of my Quadrafire Insert and the 6" SS pipe run up my masonry chimney. What I remember from last year was it was suggested I get a medium duty, which has smaller diameter (less stiff) bristles. Digging through my tool box I came up with a 6" very stiff brush that had the lower half cut off, it would not go up the chimney. I also found a medium duty that was full, not bristles removed. I couldn't get it past the jog-back bend either. With may poor memory, I now wonder if I somehow forced the cut down heavy duty or the medium duty up the chimney last year. I do remember getting the brush up to what felt like the top... I have 28' of rods and think that reaches the chimney cap.
I am now thinking I may need to try the Sooteater or similar, anything that doesn't have a form that is supposed to fill the diameter of the liner.