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Glen Waverley streets pair 1960s and 70s brick homes with brand-new rebuilds, so one sweep might be an unlined chimney and the next a steel flue on a heater that is barely two winters old. FreshDuct cleans both properly and photographs what it found.
New rebuild with an inbuilt heater? The flue still needs a sweep every winter, however new the house is.
The original Glen Waverley houses went up through the 1960s and 70s with open fireplaces in unlined brick chimneys, and plenty of them are still in use. Decades of fires have left the flue walls layered with creosote, and the mortar joints behind it have softened over the same years. Sweeping one is a masonry job: rods and a rotary head sized to the brick flue, worked from a sealed fireplace until the camera shows clean walls.
Next door, the knock-down rebuild has an inbuilt wood heater on a twin-wall steel flue, and its owner assumes a new house needs nothing. It does. A modern heater run low on winter evenings lays creosote through the flue and across the baffle, and a partly blocked baffle chokes the draught until the glass blackens and the room smells of smoke. That sweep is a different job: a brush matched to the flue diameter, the baffle checked, and the cowl cleared.
The rebuilds also brought gas fireplaces, and those are a flue-only job for us: the flue and terminal are kept clear so the fire vents as designed, and the appliance goes to the licensed gas specialists we arrange. Whichever Glen Waverley home you are in, the sweep is contained with drop sheets and a vacuum running throughout, and it ends with before and after photos of the flue and a plain word on anything else we saw.
A contained sweep matched to the flue: rotary brushing for a mid-century brick chimney, a sized brush and baffle check for a rebuild’s wood heater.
The inbuilt heaters in Glen Waverley’s rebuilds have a baffle plate that collects creosote and ash until the flue can barely draw. We check it during the sweep and clear the flue above it, because a clean flue over a blocked baffle still smokes.
A 1960s Glen Waverley chimney has never had a liner, so the creosote from every winter since sits on brick and mortar. A rotary head takes it back to the wall, and the camera pass shows whether those joints are still holding.
Older Glen Waverley chimneys were often left open at the top, and a summer is enough for birds to fill one. We clear the nest as part of the sweep, photograph the terminal and tell you if a cap would stop it coming back.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
A rebuild in Glen Waverley has new floors and fresh paint around the heater, and a 1970s lounge has carpet that has survived this long. Both get drop sheets, a sealed opening or closed firebox, and a vacuum running from the first rod to the last.
The before and after photos show the flue walls, the baffle on a heater, and the cap or cowl on top, so you know what was done without climbing a ladder or peering up the chimney.
Documented end to end — every job, every suburb.
We look at the firebox, flue and cap and assess the build-up.
Drop sheets down and the fireplace opening sealed.
Rods and a rotary brush clear the full length of the flue.
Soot and debris captured with contained, high-power vacuuming.
Draw and the cap confirmed; we tell you what we found.
Before and after photos, and the hearth left clean.
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Yes. Creosote is a product of how the fire is burned, not of how old the house is. Two winters of low, slow burns is enough to coat a flue and clog a baffle, and the first symptom is usually blackened glass and a sluggish fire. Basic chimney cleaning is $169, inspection included.
We look after the flue side: the flue and terminal are checked and kept clear so the fire vents as designed, and we photograph both. Work on the gas appliance itself is done by the licensed gas specialists we arrange, so you get one booking and the right trade on each part.
Fire authorities recommend an annual sweep before winter. If you burn most nights, burn unseasoned or soft wood, or run a heater on low for long periods, sooner.
Not with FreshDuct. We lay drop sheets, seal the fireplace opening and use contained, high-power vacuuming so the soot is captured rather than left in your living room.
A standard sweep clears regular soot and light creosote. A deep clean tackles heavy, baked-on or glazed creosote that a normal brush will not shift.
Send your details and the office confirms a window for Glen Waverley. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
