Loading…
10
Showerthought: is hand-brushing creosote off a flue liner better than the rotary whip, or am I just old school?
Did an 1890s brick chimney on a house in Worcester last Tuesday and the rotary whip chewed through the glaze in 20 minutes, but my old timer mentor swears hand brushing is the only way to catch the hairline cracks a camera misses, so which one are you actually trusting on a job you can't see inside?
1 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In1 Comment
faithf7723d ago
So what did the camera actually show after you ran the whip through, did you see any glaze loss that mattered or just scuffs that look scary on screen? The old timer might have a point about cracks, but here's the thing, if the whip is knocking glaze loose then you just made the next creosote layer stick even harder, right? Hand brushing lets you feel the flue as you go, and yeah your arm is dead by the end but you know every inch got touched. On a job where you can't see inside, the question is whether you trust your tool or your hands more, and I keep going back and forth on that. Have you tried running a camera before and after both methods on the same flue to see which one actually leaves it cleaner?
6