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Kew’s Victorian mansions and Edwardian villas were built with a fireplace in most rooms, all feeding one tall stack. FreshDuct sweeps the flue you use, checks the ones you do not, and photographs each flue before and after.
Kew sweep on a slate roof? We work from the fireplace and survey the stack top by drone, so nobody walks the slate.
A Kew chimney is rarely one flue. The Victorian mansions and Edwardian villas on the high ground above the Yarra were built with a fireplace in most rooms, and those fireplaces feed a single tall stack carrying several separate flues side by side. Only one or two are usually lit now, but each still runs from a hearth to the top of the stack, and the used flue collects creosote along a very long, unlined length of brick.
The first job is working out which flue serves which fireplace, because in a stack this size it is not obvious from the ground. We do that with a camera and a smoke check from the hearth, then sweep the working flue its full height with rods and a rotary brush, adding lengths until the head reaches the pot. The opening is sealed and a vacuum runs the whole time, which matters in rooms with original floors and plasterwork.
Slate changes how the top is handled. Many Kew roofs of this age are slate and cannot be walked on without cracking it, so we do not send anyone up for a sweep. The stack, pots and flashing are surveyed by drone instead, and the photos come to you with the flue images. If a disused flue has been shedding nest material or mortar into the stack, we tell you and suggest capping it.
A full-height sweep of the flue you use in a multi-flue Kew stack, with the others checked and the slate left untouched.
A large Kew house may have had half a dozen fireplaces and now uses one. The idle flues share the same stack, sit open at the top and collect nests and damp, so we look down each of them and tell you which are worth capping.
In a stack carrying several flues, sweeping the wrong one is easy and useless. We confirm the run from hearth to pot with a camera and a smoke check before the rods go in, so the flue that gets brushed is the flue you actually light.
A cracked slate beside a chimney is an expensive leak to find later. Kew sweeps are done from the fireplace with the opening sealed, and the pots and flashing are photographed by drone rather than from a ladder propped against the roof.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
Kew sitting rooms tend to have original timber floors, ceiling roses and furniture worth protecting. Drop sheets cover the hearth and the surrounding floor, the opening is sealed before the first rod goes in, and the vacuum stays on until the last one comes out.
You get before and after images of the flue and drone photos of the stack. If the idle flues are dropping debris or the pots are open to the rain, we say so plainly and quote capping as a separate job, never as a condition of the sweep.
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. A multi-flue stack is checked with a camera and a smoke test from the hearth before we sweep, so the rods go up the right flue. We also look down the others and tell you if any are dropping nest material or mortar into the stack.
It should not. The fireplace opening is sealed, drop sheets go down over the hearth and floor, and a vacuum runs from the first rod to the last. The flue is brushed its full height, which on a Kew stack means a lot of rods, and the hearth is left clean.
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 Kew. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
