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Used to think a wire brush was fine for cleaning flues until I hit a heavy creosote glaze on a job near Ellensburg
Spent 45 minutes with the brush barely scratching it, then the homeowner handed me a poly whip and I was done in 10 minutes, has anyone else had that kind of stubborn buildup?
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alice_wilson734mo ago
You said "baked so hard it looked like black ice" and that really got me thinking, @masontorres - was that near saltwater or just really dry heat? I'm trying to figure out if coastal humidity makes that glaze form differently than the desert stuff we get around here.
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masontorres4mo ago
Yeah you mentioned 'stubborn buildup' and that's exactly the kind of stuff that makes me wonder if people are confusing creosote with actual glaze. I mean, a poly whip works great on soft creosote but if it's that hard glassy stuff, sometimes you need a rotary cleaner with a metal head to really break through. Idk, maybe it's just me but I've had a few jobs near the coast where the creosote was so baked it looked like black ice and the poly whip just kinda bounced off it.
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