Cleaning Masonry & Pre-Fab Fireplace Chimneys from the “Bottom Up”(cont.)
If You Don’t Have a Vacuum: If you don’t have a vacuum, open damper, cover fireplace opening with plastic. Use duct tape to seal around edges to contain dust while rotary cleaning. (Do not completely seal top corner of plastic yet) 4. Trim “Chimney Whip” to fit the inside dimension of your chimney. (See “Trim Guide on inside front cover)
5. Cut small slit in plastic near the middle of fireplace opening. 6. Attach whip to end of one rod. Feed opposite end of rod through plastic from inside firebox leaving whip inside firebox. 7. Finish sealing plastic tightly around fireplace opening. 8. Insert “Drill Adapter” into drill. 9. Attach rod to drill. Feed whip into chimney flue and begin spinning whip up into chimney flue one rod at a time with a back and forth motion.
Spin whip in both directions to Clean square & rectangular flues
Square & Rectangular Flues: 10. If chimney flue is square or rectangular, spin whip in one direction the whole length of one rod, then reverse direction of drill and spin whip in opposite direction while working the rod in and out to clean opposite corners of the flue. Repeat this method for each rod added until you reach the top of chimney flue.
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