I woke up and the stove was cool enough to do a chimney cleaning. Freezing outside, but pulled out the ladder anyway and got up on the roof. This year we burned a bit sooner than usual and the cap showed. It was probably the worst I've seen it however, the chimney was the norm. I ended up with a half of a cool whip container, roughly 4 cups. This is my normal mid season cleaning and it needed it.
Nice work well seasoned! I will need to do that sometime in the middle of the winter. If the snow holds off another couple weeks, I may pay my guy to do it before the snow comes.
Wow, at first glance, that looked like a gallon container. Then, my eyes focused and I read the post. Sometime around our January thaw is when I get up there for ours. Colder weather should help. All those cold starts and sorta' smoldering fires will do a number on the flue......especially the cap. 4 cups isn't bad, but if the cap ain't working, doesn't matter.
About what I got the other day when I did mine. I use to worry about that much in the chimney but after talking to some other fellas I don't get to excited about it anymore. 1 guy I know has a rod with a sickle section bolted to it that he uses to peel the tar of the tiles when it gets completely plugged.
You have quite a bit of Class A exposed above the roof, I'm sure the cold temps wreak havoc on the last section and the cap.
Ive tried this, but is difficult with the telescoping stove pipe. Top down aint bad, just alittle schetchy on the ladder. That part of the roof is flat.
I've got 7.5ft of class A above my roof, and the only thing that gets nasty is the cap. The top of the pipe looks the same as the bottom before I sweep. Just saying.
