Spent 4 hours on a flue that just needed a different brush head

Had a job last Tuesday where the draft was terrible no matter what I did. Checked the cap, looked for blockages, ran my rods through like three times with the standard 8 inch poly brush. Nothing. Customer was standing there watching me, lol, making small talk about their dog while I'm sweating bullets trying to figure it out. Finally after 4 hours I swapped to a steel wire brush head and the whole thing cleared in like 5 minutes. Turns out there was a heavy glaze buildup that the poly brush just slid over. Has anyone else run into a similar situation where the wrong brush made you look like you had no idea what you were doing?

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nancy32d ago

The glaze thing is real, I wonder if different fuels leave different deposits

pipergonzalez2d ago

Nope, @nancy3, I think it's more about the kiln temp and how long you hold it than what fuel you burn.