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Am I the only one who thinks a rotary brush beats a flat wire brush on glazed creosote?
Did a job in Akron on Tuesday where the flue had stage 3 glazed creosote caked about half an inch thick, and I went at it with a flat wire brush first like I usually do. Swapped to a rotary brush on a drill after 20 minutes of getting nowhere, and it came off in sheets in maybe 15 more minutes. Has anyone else noticed rotary just cuts through the hard shiny stuff way faster, or did I just get lucky with this one?
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nina18029d ago
Stage 3 in a 30 foot chimney in Cleveland last winter took me almost two hours with a flat wire brush and I barely made a dent. Grabbed a rotary whip from the truck, ran it on a corded drill, and that glassy junk was peeling off in big chips inside of 20 minutes. The flat brush just skates across the shiny surface because it can't bite into it, but the rotary spins fast enough to actually dig in and break it up. You didn't get lucky, that's just how it works on glazed stuff. I don't even pull out the flat brush first anymore when I can see that hard black shine on the walls.
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