That Tuesday when I pulled 3 pounds of creosote out of a single flue

I got a call last Tuesday from an old house in Portland where the owner said her stove was smoking back into the room. When I got there and ran my brush up the flue, it barely moved at first. I had to use a rotary tool with a chain knocker to break through a solid layer of glazed creosote, and it took me over two hours just to clear the first bend. The pile on my drop cloth was bigger than anything I've seen in five years of sweeping. Has anyone else run into glazed creosote that bad and found a trick to speed up the removal?

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danieltaylor24d ago

Using a dry chemical like Anti-Creo-Soot on the wood helps stop that buildup.

campbell.logan24d agoTop Commenter

Yeah that stuff works, I've used it on a few stubborn chimneys.