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clean it out is an old wives tale. “People in Rappahannock have lost their homes with that old traditional approach,” he noted.
He also emphasized that rattling a chain around in a chimney to clean it by knocking the creosote loose is highly dangerous. “You can crack’ the chimney, break the ceramic tile liners that are inside the brick,” he cautioned.
Professionals use traditional wire brushes fitted exactly to the flue and attached to flexible fiber glass rods that scrub the flue clean from top to bottom, Northup said. The other half of the sweep’s equipment, a vacuum system that fits the bottom of the chimney to control dust and soot, keeps the room from ending up a disaster.
The die-hard do-it-yourselfer can buy wire brushes and poles exactly like those used by professionals for
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