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A paint roller on a broomstick beat my $90 soot vacuum on a 30 foot flue
Got called out to a 1920s place near Dayton last month with a flue so tall I couldn't reach past 25 feet with any brush I own, so I duct taped a paint roller to a broomstick and spun it up there. It knocked loose a softball size chunk of glazed creosote that my vacuum never would have touched, and the sweep after me said the draw on that fireplace was night and day. What kind of homemade rig are you all running for the tall stuff, or am I the last guy still taping things to poles?
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jana_lewis1629d ago
Taped a old window squeegee to a piece of conduit last winter for a rental with a crazy tall chimney and it worked better than the brush I paid forty bucks for. The squeegee edge scraped the glaze off in sheets instead of just dusting it like the bristles do. Landlord thought I was nuts dragging that thing up the ladder but the sweep report came back clean so who's laughing now. Half my truck is stuff from the hardware store at this point, not the supply house, and honestly some of it holds up better. Broomstick handles are stiff enough that you can actually put some muscle into it without the whole thing whipping around on you. Only thing I'd say is watch the tape job, I had a roller fly off into a lady's flower bed once and that was a fun conversation.
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