Chimney Sweep & Cleaning in Healesville

Sweeping and descaling hard-worked flues in Healesville

Healesville burns wood the way a valley town has to. Weatherboard cottages with open fires, township homes with inbuilt heaters, and bush and acreage properties with big freestanding units all run through winters that are long, cold and often frosty by dawn. The flues that serve them carry a heavier load than anything in the suburbs, and the deposit they build reflects it, in thickness and in hardness.

The particular Healesville problem is the overnight burn. A heater turned right down to hold till morning produces cool, slow smoke that condenses in the flue as creosote, and local wood that has not had a dry summer makes it worse. Season after season that creosote bakes into a hard, shiny glaze on the flue wall. A brush slides over glaze, and glaze is what feeds a chimney fire.

So a Healesville sweep is done with the possibility of glaze in mind from the start. We inspect the flue on camera, sweep the loose deposit with rods and a rotary head, and where glaze is found we descale it with rotary tools designed to break it off the metal or brick. The baffle, firebox and door seals get attention on heaters, the smoke shelf on open fires, and you see the flue wall before and after.