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Wood heaters on Greensborough’s treed blocks vent through steel flues that fill with creosote every winter and catch bark and leaf from the trees above. FreshDuct sweeps the flue, clears the terminal and photographs both.
Heater smoking back on a still night in Greensborough? The flue or the terminal is choked — a sweep clears both.
The chimney in a Greensborough home is usually not a chimney at all. It is a twin-wall steel flue rising from a slow-combustion heater, through the ceiling and the tile roof, to a terminal somewhere under the canopy of the block. Steel flues are smooth and narrow, they cool quickly, and a heater damped down overnight sends warm, wet smoke up a cold pipe. The result is creosote that condenses on the steel and, left long enough, glazes into a hard tar.
The trees add the second layer. Blocks near the Plenty River and the reserves drop bark, leaf and gum nuts onto roofs all year, and a terminal without a sound cowl or guard collects them. The heater then draws poorly, smoke leaks at the door, and the litter sitting in the flue is fuel above a fire. Many of the sweeps we do in Greensborough clear as much from the terminal as from the flue.
Our sweep takes the baffle out of the heater, sends a brush sized to the steel bore the full length to the terminal, and vacuums the firebox, the flue base and whatever the terminal was holding. The camera goes through afterwards to confirm the steel is clean and to look for the pitting or split seams that a glazed flue can hide. Basic chimney cleaning is $169 and you see the before and after.
A full-length sweep of a wood-heater flue and its terminal, with the baffle out, the litter cleared and the steel checked on camera afterwards.
Heaters run low overnight on Greensborough’s cold nights glaze their flues. We sweep with a brush matched to the steel bore and, where the tar has hardened past brushing, tell you what a proper clean involves before we start it.
Gum bark, leaves and nuts collect in the terminal on blocks under trees. We clear it as part of the sweep, confirm the flue is open to the top, and mention a guard or cowl if the terminal has none.
A heater sweep is only half done if the baffle stays in. We remove it, sweep the full flue, vacuum the firebox and the flue base, and refit the baffle so the heater draws the way it was designed to.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
A Greensborough heater sweep runs from the firebox to the cowl. Drop sheets go down, the heater door is sealed against the vacuum, and the brush goes through until the terminal is reached and cleared.
The camera goes through the steel afterwards, and if it shows pitting or a split seam you get the photo and a plain answer, not a hard sell. Then the heater is lit briefly to confirm the draw.
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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Once before every winter as the minimum, and a mid-season check if you burn most nights or the terminal keeps collecting bark and leaf from the trees. Litter at the top blocks the flue as surely as creosote inside it, and both are cleared in one visit.
No. The heater door is sealed to the vacuum, drop sheets cover the hearth, and the brush works through with extraction running the whole time. The baffle comes out and goes back, and the firebox is vacuumed before we leave.
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 Greensborough. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
