Am I the only one who thinks a brush that won't fit the flue is worth more time than a power sweep? | Chimney Sweeps

Evan Price · 2026-10-17T21:15:07.369794+00:00

I spent nearly 3 hours last Thursday on a job in Rockford because the standard 8 inch brush kept hanging up on a shelf in the flue, and the homeowner kept coming out to ask if the birds were stuck in there. I ended up rigging a smaller brush on a whip and going at it by hand, which took way longer but got the job done clean. My helper thinks I'm crazy for not just running a rotary sweep and moving on. Part of me wonders if I should have just charged the extra time and used the power tool. What do you all do when a flue has a weird shelf or offset, power through with the rotary or slow down and work it by hand?

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