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Dropped $340 on a rotary chimney brush kit that didn't fit a single flue in my area
I got talked into buying one of those fancy rotary kits at a supply shop in Columbus back in March, and it has been sitting in my van ever since. Turns out half the flues around here are old 8x8 clay liners with offset tiles, and the whip heads just chew themselves up on the corners instead of cleaning anything. I burned $340 plus two trips back to the shop trying to swap parts, and I still finished both jobs the old hard way with my 6 inch poly brush. If you run mostly pre-1950 houses, skip the rotary pitch and put that money toward a good set of rods. Anyone here actually making a rotary setup pay off, or is it just me who got sold a bill of goods?
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rayc831mo ago
The rotary heads are mostly pushed by guys doing tons of new construction or metal liners where the flue is perfectly straight. Nobody at the shop ever asks what kind of houses you actually work on before selling you the kit. For old clay with offsets you'd need the flexible button head style, not the whip, but half those kits ship with the wrong heads anyway.
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