Brushing Liner from the bottom

Hey all, I'd like to clean my stainless chimney liner but I'm not a roof guy.

Does anyone clean their liner through the stove?

Thanks

 

Hey Jason, no chimney here, but folks who don't wanna' climb use a Sooteater. How tall is your setup?
I've considered it myself, but I can still get to the top of mine pretty easily. Didn't know Lowes had it, but here ya' go.............
Shop SootEater 10-Piece Chimney Cleaning Kit at Lowes.com

 

Perfect! Good price too! My chimney is only 15', but on the roof, I look down into my sunken driveway and I become paralyzed.

 

mines thru the wall bottom up and vaccuum.. pipe to stove inside. dry wood is great pulled and looked it was clean but if these guys say try it go for it!
top of roof to bottom of walkout basement is pushing 45feet plus.. got a deck about 40 up great views... oh not smart enough to be afraid of heights but wife is.... fast way to end argument go on roof!

 

Seems like a mere postponement. Gotta' come down at some point, no?

 

Jason845 Thanks for asking this question! Might have a good option to pick from now.

 

I'm okay crawling up on the roof, but I'm not crawling under the house

 

I can't do that, Id be doing this all day...

 

I get freaked out working under a vehicle sometimes, got to get the hell out of there for a minute.
My crawlspace is a tight space

 

Same, the less light the worse it is.

 

It actually isn't about light, it is about tight spaces and claustrophobia

 

Yeah I just find that if you are in a tight space, light helps make it seem just a little bigger. But I know what you mean. Crowds + little room to move around = panic.

 

It's true though more light is better

 

Heights and confined spaces are no problem. Where I have trouble is too many people too close for my comfort. We each have our limits.

 

I use a sooteater from the bottom up, works well! I can't go from the stove up due to my horizontal through the wall set up, so I use the sooteater from the clean-out up to the cap. I then use one of the round poly brushes to do from the stove up through the horizontal.

 

I clean my liner from the bottom with a sooteater. Nice baffle bricks, insert first rod, put plastic around the door with tape or magnets, clean liner, reinstall baffle bricks. Takes 15 minutes.

 

I have a SootEater and clean the chimney from the bottom up. There is a clean- out door in the chimney at about mid- chest level, and it is straight up so no thimbles or angles on the way, just straight up. It worked pretty well when it was a masonry chimney but I have not yet cleaned the new SS chimney with it. The new setup is a S.S. chimney, a Tee to make a thimble and an 8 ft. or so extension down through the original cement block masonry set up with a cap that ends just above the clean- out door. So basically the S.S. chimney is open at the bottom.

The SootEater did a pretty good job on the original chimney although not great at getting into the corners. I expect it to work much better on the S.S. chimney because it is smaller in diameter but especially because it is round in the first place.

I have not cleaned the S.S. chimney yet and plan on doing it with the SootEater but am a little concerned about all the steel extensions knocking around inside the chimney on the way up. There is something like 32' of chimney and all those extensions whip around against the flue pretty good. I may use a larger diameter but slower drill to drive the cleaner in this chimney.

Brian

 

Hoping to find out how much SS liner will be in my house so to do this right. The thing of it is that there will likely be a bend in it, connection to the thimble then other side of thimble will likely have slight bend to it, having looked at liners recently its just flexible tubing. but now that I think of it, there would be another elbow piece but hoping this doesn't make cleaning that much more difficult....