Needing to clean a 6" stainless steel flue liner for a wood stove insert, I went two different directions, I bought a poly brush and separately poles to attach the brush to and as an alternate I bought this neat little fellow.If you are looking at this you are probably considering other options as I did, so first a few comments on the "other options" that I happened to buy.First up was the US Hardware BR0181 6" Poly brush attached to Imperial Br0187 poles. The brush is stiff and a close fit in the pipe. It would do a decent job with stiff enough poles but I could only use 3 sections before the stiffness of the brush caused the poles to flex so much that it became impossible to get the brush further down the pipe, I could not get all the way down.No on to this slick little piece of wonderfulThis comes in a nice compact storage bag that includes poles that snap together with a button style release. The lock is very positive and will not come apart just from being bumped when cleaning. An Allen wrench with a tapered end is included to act as an aid for pressing the ball in that snaps in place to form the lock.An adapter is included (with the lock mechanism on the end) to fit into a drill chuck. I used a 3/8 Dewalt cordless variable speed drill with a hand tighten chuck, it was fine, nothing bigger needed.Put the adapter in the chuck, snap in the first section of pole, snap on the cleaning brush insert in pipe and spin away. While the poly brush did a reasonable job this did better. Separate the first section of pole from the drill adapter (leave the adapter in the chuck) and add another section of pole; obviously being careful to not drop the detached section down the pipe. There is enough flex in the poles that with a couple of sections already in place I did not have to pull out the entire length to feel comfortable adding another section, I just bent the pole over at an angle to add the next section.I did more cleaning on the way up reversing the process, sticking each section of pole back in the storage bag as I removed it, nice and tidy. Save the plastic zip lock bag and even the twist tie that the cleaning brush, drill adapter and Allen wrench came in. Put the pieces back in the zip lock bag and the twist tie on the out side of the bag to compress the bristles of the brush into a tidy bunch which will make it easy to extract them from the storage bag the next time around.The bag is compact and so is the opening of the bag (no closure, just an opening) but it's OK.The only sort of negatives, get 3 or more sections attached and the flex in the pole causes them to bang around inside the pipe, more so at higher drill speeds, so a variable speed drill is highly recommended. Use a drill with a good chuck there is no way to safety the pole from falling in the pipe if the drill adapter come out of the chuck other than wearing a glove and keeping a hand loosely around the pole as it spins. My Dewalt locked the adapter in solidly, no problems experienced.This gadget stores in minimal space, is easy to use and makes cleaning a breeze. Highly recommended.

Bought it in March, finally tried it in December. When feeding it down the chimney, be careful to keep rod straight up and down. When I was feeding it in and I had rod flexed a bit to one side, it came apart when I started the rotation. As long as I kept it straight, it stayed together and did the job well. Only a 15 foot tall chimney, only had to use two sections.

used to clean a 6" metalbestous chimney from below. Flexible brush was easy to use all the way to the top of a 20' pipe going through a couple of 45 degree turns. The plastic bristles did not stand up well, but it was easy to change them for pieces of braided metal cable (see picture.) Alternatively, you could use heavy weed whacker cord. Anyway, it saved us from getting on a slippery roof and was a good buy for the price. I wish that I could buy two more sections of the sections separately to extend it for use in a longer chimney we have. If the original bristles had held up, this would have been a '5'Addendum: some answers say you can buy a couple of extension rods separately if you have a longer chimney, but when I tried, they said they did not do this. However, I am pleased enough to buy a second set which will let me do a 30' chimney and have a spare head if anything breaks.

I had never used a drill-powered sweep before, but I had heard excellent things about the Sooteater product. This seems to be an exacting copy of that design. The string is twisted-style weedwhacker line, made from a soft poly material. Using a multi-speed drill and gentle touch on the throttle to keep the speed LOW (this same stuff will slice small trees at 8000 RPM, and I can't imagine either my chimney liner or this shaft would take the full 2000 RPM my drill can throw, so I tried to keep it well under 200 RPM), I got great results. The section of the liner I was able to inspect visually looked quite clean after a few passes. My chimney was cleaned to my satisfaction with minimal time and effort. The rods appear to be some kind of fiber-reinforced plastic and are very flexible, in my installation the Rutland brand rods were unable to bend sufficiently to gain access, but these had no problems at all. The hardware seems solid and a convenient little tool for operating the spring detents in included.Overall, this seems like a winner for *MAINTAINING* a clean chimney from the bottom. This product does not seem like it would be effective at cleaning a severely creosote-fouled chimney, the rods are much too flexible to exert the force that is required, in my experience.

Cleaned our 6 inch stainless steel flexible liner with this using a Makita 18 volt cordless drill.Everything went together easily and I double checked the poles as I attached them for any chance of coming loose and they seem to be very secure. I cleaned the chimney liner from the top of the roof down due to our wood stove having a 90 degree bend of the pipe going to the liner. Everything worked well and it cleaned the liner really well and took less than 30 min's including a couple of climbs up and down the ladder for a few little items such as a flashlight to check how well things were cleaned. I have everything cleaned and tucked away in the nice storage bag supplied for the next season.Great product at a great price.

I had never used this type of chimney brush before, but thought it might be worth a try. I'm glad I tried it. I can now disassemble a few pieces inside my fireplace and clean it from the bottom up, with no need to climb on the roof and mess with the chimney cap. The product is designed well and functioned as well as any other chimney brush I've used. This product along with 45 minutes of my time saved me a couple hundred bucks. Glad I tried this weird chimney spider-looking thing.*having a nice cordless drill is probably necessary for this operation*

Works great!

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