The angle on my brush head was totally wrong for 2 years

I kept seeing soot buildup on the top of my flue tiles and couldn't figure out why until a guy named Mike from a job site in Denver pointed out my brush head was pitched the wrong way. He said I was basically pushing the creosote back into the chimney instead of scraping it off, and after fixing it my sweeps came out way cleaner. Has anyone else found that a small angle change on their rods or brush made a big difference?

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blair_butler476d ago

Wait, you're telling me a swivel connector fixed the whole dragging issue? I've been fighting with a tight offset on a 7-inch flue for like a year now and my brush keeps getting hung up on one side, leaving a stripe of soot. Did the swivel completely stop that sideways scraping or did you have to adjust your rod angle too? I rigged up a homemade pivot joint once but it was too loose and the brush just flopped around, so I'm wondering if a real swivel has some tension to it. The mark on my tiles is driving me crazy and I cant tear the whole thing out.

river1836d ago

That angle thing with the brush head is interesting but what people miss is the rod angle when you're going around offsets. If your rods are bending too much on a tight turn you're dragging the brush sideways across the tile instead of letting it spin properly. I switched to a swivel connector and it let the brush follow the flue shape way better without forcing the bristles into the wrong spot.