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This chimney gets cleaned from the clean out - up.

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Add 4' sections and insert Shop-Vac hose

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IS that a diagonal stovepipe coming in from the right?

If so, how do you clean that? From inside the stove?


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I remove the stovepipe from the stove and scrap the inside with my Grandfather's three feet 1/2 moon pipe scraper, plus wire brush where needed.

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Coolio !


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Just cleaned a Selkirk Metalbestos chimney from the top down 2 days ago. I just remove the baffle plate and let fall into the firebox.


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I just swabbed mine out last week. 18 foot double wall stainless; I go up through the bottom cleanout outside the cabin, makes it nice.

I take the black stovepipe from inside the house and clean it outside, then shopvac the inside of the stove and blow out the air passages.

Got three full cords split and stacked.

I'm all ready to burn.


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Don't have wood heat here. Yet. The last place was an air tight stand along woodstove so doing it from the bottom up would be a royal PITA. It was just a straight run of pipe so pretty easy I just popped the cap off on the chimney on the roof and go it it, I'd scrub down about 3-4 feet then come up and repeat the same section a couple times doing a thorough job then go down another 3-4 feet doing the same. Then after 20 minutes or so to let it settle good open the door on the stove and shovel it out. Baffle in the stove removed beforehand of course.

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Ummm...is now a good time to admit I have never cleaned a chimney, and I have never heard of anyone else around here doing it either?


Seriously, if you lot fancy doing a thread on the tools required I would find it interesting.


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Chimney fires take out houses every year. You should clean yours. The tools shown above are available at big box type stores and probably smaller hardware places here in the states. Places like Menard's, Lowe's and Home Depot. Smaller like local Tru Value, etc. Probably ever Walmart.

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That sure beats getting on the roof to do so. smile


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If you ever experience a chimney fire touching off, it will put the fear of God in you. Years back my son packed our firebox full, in a very high windstorm. I heard what sounded like a freight train in the den, and outside lit up like it was daylight. I knew exactly what happened and headed for the stove. Luckily we have a big Fisher Grandpa Bear, and it shuts down completely air tight and in less than 5 seconds I had it starved for air and under control. The chimney was glowing red, and I climbed up to the top and covered it with a piece of plate steel to finish it off .I had it inspected and it is still usable. We were burning about 14 face cord of wood a year , now we are lucky to burn 2-3 after that experience, still cautious over it and brush the chimney a couple times per season. We burn only dry wood, and keep a hot fire, but got careless and didn't clean it as often as we should have . Operator negligence.

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I clean mine once every 3-5 years but I burn VERY hot fires that do not lend themselves to buildup


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I clean our stove pipe twice a year, it is a pita , but I am burning constantly from end of October through March. I pop the cap on roof and send a brush down and then have to take the pipe off of stove and take it outside and clean thoroughly. When the folks were building the house I was in Colo. I had them make sure the framing for the pipe is so many inches from the outside wall. Builder refused to do it....ergo I do not have a straight pipe all the way to the roof! Still pisses me off, and the pipe was way out of plumb when put in originally. Had another outfit come in and fix it!

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I have a tool that is much like a metal leaf rake but 4 sided in a pyramid shape.
From above[roof] I send it down the chimney and once down give it a good yank and the tines expand outward[spring loaded].
Pull it up, repeat as necessary, then empty the clean out.
2-1/2 stories of chimney and I get about 1 five gal bucket of soot as long as the wood is well seasoned.


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