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Chimney Cleaning Attachments

  • 01-06-2019 10:42pm
    #1
    restive
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭


    Last year i got my chimney cleaned. The person who did it attached the rods to a drill and was able to clean it from the ground without using ladders.



    Does anyone know where i can buy the attachment he had to connect the drill to the chimney rods?


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  • #2
    my3cents
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    What sort of chimney do you have? I assume that its a liner if you want to use the drill method.

    I noticed these rods in a couple of builders merchants. Any that stock a range of stoves are likely to have them.


  • #3
    monkeynuz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭monkeynuz


    restive wrote: »
    Last year i got my chimney cleaned. The person who did it attached the rods to a drill and was able to clean it from the ground without using ladders.



    Does anyone know where i can buy the attachment he had to connect the drill to the chimney rods?

    https://www.rodtechuk.com/

    This is what my chimney sweep uses.


  • #4
    blue.dub4sam
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    I got one in athlone for €89.


  • #5
    monkeynuz
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    blue.dub4sam wrote: »
    I got one in athlone for €89.

    Although a proper chimney sweep may use the professional power rods and also the heads are different


  • #6
    the_pen_turner
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    blue.dub4sam wrote: »
    I got one in athlone for €89.

    thos cheap ones are no good. we have one . it doesnt remove the stuburn build ups. its good for the soft stuff but anything would remove that.
    if you were to use it everyweek it would probably keep it clean .

    dont waste your time. the old brushes are 100 times better .


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  • #7
    antiskeptic
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    The 'old brushes' won't remove the hard, caked on stuff high up, where the gases cool and condense. If such stuff is there. We got a self described chimney physician out who swept our chimney. A few month later, my kid managed to slide some heavy gauge shopping bags into the lighted fire, past 2 fire guards.

    The flames shot up the chimney and ignited that stuff (it wouldn't normally be touched ny flames from a normal fire.)

    Whoosh. Months out of house and home.

    Power clean with mechanical impact, brush thereafter on a regular basis.

    And that presumes you burn coal - not wood and all the other rubbish folk dispose of in the fire.


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