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Hot take: rotary chains are overrated and my flue brush proved it on a job in Fargo
Everyone on here keeps pushing rotary chains but I had one snap on me last Tuesday during a liner job on a 1920s house in Fargo, and I finished the whole thing with my old 6 inch poly brush in about 40 minutes. The chain bound up on a ridge of creosote at maybe 12 feet down and the rod whipped back hard enough to bang my knuckle. So I pulled the chain, ran the brush down in sections, and got a cleaner result without dragging the shop vac out twice. Anyone else getting better results with basic brushes on heavy build up, or am I the odd one out here?
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john_johnson7519d ago
The chain didn't snap on you because rotary chains are overrated, it snapped because you hit a hard ridge of creosote at 12 feet and probably had too much speed going. That's a pretty common deal with glazed third degree stuff, the chain grabs and the rod whips, and honestly a knuckle bang is you getting off easy. A 6 inch poly brush can work fine on that kind of buildup when you take it slow in sections, but it's not the brush beating the chain, it's you changing your whole method after the chain bound up. Take that with a grain of salt since every flue is different, but I'd bet you'd get the same result with a chain if you ran it slower through that ridge.
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