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Serious question, has anyone else tried both a standard brush and a poly brush on a tough clay tile flue?
I had a job last week in the old part of town with a flue that hadn't been cleaned in maybe 15 years. The standard steel wire brush just wasn't cutting through the glazed creosote, but a poly brush I borrowed from another sweep got it clean in half the time. What's the best brush type you've found for these older, glazed-up systems?
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davis.fiona7mo ago
For that glazed stuff, a poly brush with some extra weight on the rod works wonders.
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grant5407mo ago
Totally get that, some of that old glazed stuff is a nightmare. reesepatel has a point about poly brushes shredding, but they're the only thing that touches the really hard deposits sometimes. Just have to go slow and hope the tiles are in good shape.
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reesepatel7mo ago
Serious question" is doing a lot of work here. It's a brush, not a space shuttle. You found one that scrapes the gunk off better, cool. The poly ones are fine until you hit a broken tile edge and shred it, then you're fishing plastic out for an hour. They all have a place, but no brush is magic.
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