this is one of those things I know I can do myself. Please recommend a sweeping kit for me to buy. Thanks in advance.
I use a soot eater....i feel it works great for me. It comes with enough sections to do about 15 ft...more can be purchased. It reminds you of a weed wacker...just hooks up to cordless drill....it can be ran in both directions. It can be used from top to bottom or bottom to top..whatver you prefer. Price is around 50.00....google it n see what you think..
Yep I have a Sooter eater that I use also. When finished I can take a flash light and look down the pipe and it always looks very clean. The other nice thing I like about it is that it will go around small bends in your pipe if it is not straight.
I have a polyester 6 inch round polyester brush with 5 or 6 rods for my 6 inch ss chimneys, from Tractor Supply or Ace or someplace . Good for a straight shot chimney. For bends a sooteater is supposed to work well.
Ours is like billb3 with polyester brush and 4 poles. If you have stainless chimney or flue, get polyester and not steel.
I use the Soot Eater as well, works well for me. I got min a couple of years ago from Amazon cheaper than I could find it any place else at the time.
Soot eater here too. Been using it twice a year for the last 7 years. I clean my 15ft liner from inside. A few minutes prep, a few minutes cleaning, a few minutes to put everything away. My dad bought one too after seeing how well mine works.
If you are burning dry wood (like a good lil FHC'r ) then a SootEater will make your chimney look almost new inside. (assuming its round, they work on square too, but better on round)
A metal brush is more aggressive than a poly brush. In a round insulated pipe you shouldn't be getting the same amount of creosote and glaze you used to get in a clay lined chimney and you shouldn't need an aggressive brush. In theory, should you get a poly brush stuck, a fire should soften the poly enough to pull it out easy. A steel brush may or may not scratch the inside of a pipe. That's irrelevant considering all you need and most pipe manufacturers recommend a poly brush. If you want to use a metal brush, use a metal brush.
Using a steel brush scratches the chromium oxide on the surface of stainless steel (it's what makes it stainless) and will leave little bits of carbon steel behind...that "seeds" rust to start.
Yep its what I'll be using and its in my Amazon shopping cart. However I need the extra rod set as my chimney is approx 23ft. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
