Used to skip sweeping the smoke shelf on every job

I never bothered with the smoke shelf because I figured the soot falling down was good enough. Then I got a call back where creosote had built up so bad it blocked the flue completely. Anybody else make that mistake early on?

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christopher_hunt3d ago

Can confirm a soot-covered smoke shelf looks clean enough from below but that buildup hides until you've got a real problem on your hands. That call back probably cost way more time than just sweeping it proper the first time around. Once I started hitting the shelf with the brush and checking with a light, my callback rate dropped to almost zero.

jason2503d ago

Learned that lesson the hard way too. Changed my whole approach after a bad callback.