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Wire brushes on a drill vs hand brushing creosote, no contest after 14 jobs
When I started out sweeping in Columbus back in 2003, the old guys handed me a hand brush and said that was the only way to do a flue right. I did it that way for about two seasons, and my wrists were shot by Friday every week. Then a guy named Dale from a crew out in Dayton let me try his drill with a wire brush head on a 12 foot flex rod. First chimney I hit with it was a nasty ranch house with glazed creosote an inch thick, and I knocked it all loose in maybe 15 minutes instead of the hour and a half I used to spend. The drill gets into the offsets on a clay flue liner that your arm just can't reach, and the brush spins off stuff that would laugh at a hand brush. Only thing is you gotta watch your speed or you'll crack a tile, so I run it slow and let the brush do the work. These days I keep both in the truck because some old liner jobs still want the gentle touch. Any of you still doing it all by hand on purpose, or did everybody move to the drill?
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