How to Clean your Chimney Liner for Wood Fireplace Insert! 🔥
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- A Step By Step how to clean a stainless steel chimney liner. Avoid chimney fires, clean your wood stove chimney. Be SAFE! my roof is not that high or steep, always wear a safety harness if your roof is high or steep or if you do not feel comfortable on the roof. If you have the brush / rods you can do this yourself in under an hour. Be safe and good luck! Imperial Manufacturing is the brand of the brush & rods I use & they work really well! My wood burning fireplace insert with flexible stainless steel liner is made by Drolet. Thanks for Watching! Chimney cleaning at home. How to sweep your chimney liner.
First time homeowner and wood stove owner here, this video was fantastic and was a huge help. Thank you!
You're welcome, glad to help!
Good video thanks. I put a rope with a weight tied to the end of the brush and drop it down the flue in case it gets stuck. Which happened once and was a good lesson learned.
Good idea with the weight, thanks for watching!
☔ thanks from Olympia....i couldn't tell from the video if you put the brush down the chimney or the capped off liner.....?....🎶
In the video l remove the cap for the wood insert liner and put the brush down. The other cap you see is for a gas furnace chimney that we use as a secondary heat source. Thanks for watching!
This is the exact video I needed to watch- thanks. It’s go time!
Glad to help, thanks for watching!
This is a good video. The guy is specific and to the point. He has good footage of the necessary details!! Thank you for great help!!!
Thank you for watching, glad the video helped!
Perfect. Thank you very much. I've always had woodstoves to clean but this is the first time that I've had a fireplace insert with those reburn tubes and I didn't know how to do that.
Glad the video helped, thanks for watching!
Make sure you close the stove door after removing the baffle and before you start sweeping!
Amazing video, just what I needed thank you!
Glad it helped, thanks for watching!
I figured it was pretty straight forward, so thought I'd check YT. And funny enough, I get a fellow Van. Islander! LOL! Thanks for the concise video.
???: Any experience with those ones that are drill mounted and have what looks like weed whacker lines/brushes on them?
Thanks!
Hey that's great! guess that means we're neighbours in the yt world lol! Can't say that I've ever used a power chimney cleaner before but used lots of power augers on plumbing drains! thanks for watching!
You might put a small bucket inside before you brush it and it will catch most of it.
Very nice video
Good idea, I'll try that next time. Thanks for watching!
Nice job Thks for sharing
Thank you for watching!
Thank you!!! ❤
Glad to help!
Very good video, thank you!
Thanks!
so once down and once back up is good enough? Have you ever cleaned up what dropped down after the first time and just ran the brush thru again to see what dropped down for a second run with the brush?
I have found once is enough if the brush is the correct size with the proper resistance. I did do it twice the very first time I cleaned it with just a small amount being removed the second time.
@@JENSENDIY ok, thanks!
What brand and model # is that stove ? Are you satisfied with it or would you go with something else? God bless you and your family.
It's a Drolet Escape 1400 and works very well. The only complaint is that the fan is loud when on high speed which is needed in the colder months to properly circulate the heat. Thanks for watching!
My sweep hard a hard time reversing directions. Scared the crap out of me, my roof is pretty steep and there's no good way to get solid footing to pull up really hard. Also the chimneys on the edge
Safety first! that's the most important thing. If you don't feel comfortable you should hire a pro or get a safety harness next time. Thanks for Watching!
@@JENSENDIY yep. Also might trim the sweep a bit so that it can reverse directions with less force require. Also really want a harness and or a pitch hopper to step on for more stability
@@50kT maybe check your liner diameter. I thought mone was 6 inch but it was really only 5.5 inch, so the commonly available poly brush which is 6 inch would have been a tough push. I ended up using the rotary whip style because I was afraid I would get even a properly sized 5.5 in brush stuck.
@@Redneck_Ed Thanks I ended up using a poly brush and I shaved off about a half inch from all the poly brush tips and it went in smoothly and got the job done real quick! Just used a wire cutter to trim them down a bit.
What was the brush ?
A fiberglass or metal?
Thanks for the video!
Imperial Manufacturing is the maker. The rods are fibreglass and the brush has hard plastic bristles. Thanks for watching!
Can you clean from the bottom up? My chimney is super tall
Definitely not. I would get yourself a good safety harness or hire a professional. Good luck!
What size brush did you use for what size chimney liner?.....others have suggested a smaller size brush than the chimney size liner to prevent a stuck situation...Jon.
6 inch brush for 6 inch liner. If you go smaller it will not get nearly as much creosote out. The only reason I would use a smaller brush is if you happen to have a sharp bend in the liner. Hope this helps!
@@JENSENDIY Thanks.....my bend is probably less than 45 degrees.
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