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Keysborough has two kinds of flue on the same street: steel flues on inbuilt wood heaters in the newer estates and unlined brick flues in the established homes. FreshDuct sweeps each the way it needs, and photographs both.
Inbuilt heater in a Keysborough estate home? The baffle comes out and the flue gets swept properly, not brushed around it.
The estates that spread across Keysborough's old market-garden land came with inbuilt wood heaters venting through twin-wall steel flues, and those flues collect creosote from every burn. Because an inbuilt heater sits in a cavity with the baffle above the firebox, a token brush from below does not reach the flue at all. We remove the baffle, sweep the full length from the top with a rotary head, and clear the heater's own flue collar and cowl while we are there.
A few streets away, toward Springvale and Noble Park, the established brick homes have the opposite problem: an unlined masonry flue that has been carrying open-fire soot for decades, often uncapped and sometimes with a nest a few metres up. That sweep is done from the sealed fireplace with rods sized to the brick flue and a contained vacuum, working up until the brush reaches the top and the smoke shelf is clear.
Knowing which you have is half the job, so we look before we start rather than turning up with one method for both. A Keysborough home with a gas fireplace is different again: the appliance itself is left to the licensed gas specialists we arrange, and we look after the flue and terminal above it. Every sweep finishes with before and after photos of the flue and a plain word on its condition.
A full sweep for either a steel heater flue or an unlined brick chimney in Keysborough, matched to what is actually on your roof.
An inbuilt heater in a newer Keysborough home cannot be swept around the baffle. We remove it, sweep the steel flue from the cowl down and clear the collar, so the creosote from a winter of evening fires is actually gone.
The brick flues in Keysborough's older houses have never been lined and have never been in a hurry to give up their soot. Rods and a rotary head sized to the flue take it back to the brick, and the smoke shelf is vacuumed clean.
For the gas fireplaces common in the estates, we check and clear the flue and terminal, and anything on the appliance itself goes to the licensed gas specialists we arrange. You get one visit and one report.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
A steel heater flue and an unlined brick chimney ask for different rods, different heads and a different starting point, and we carry both to every Keysborough job. What does not change is the drop sheets, the contained vacuum and the photos at the end.
Basic chimney cleaning is $169. If the flue turns out to need a cowl replaced or a cap fitted, we tell you with a photo and quote it separately rather than folding it into the sweep without asking.
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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From the top, with the baffle out. We lift the baffle from the firebox so the flue is open, sweep the full length of the steel flue from the cowl down with a rotary head, vacuum what falls into the firebox and photograph the flue before the baffle goes back.
Yes. The established Keysborough homes have unlined brick flues that are swept from the sealed fireplace with rods sized to the brick, and we camera anything with an uncapped top or an unknown history before the brush goes up.
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 Keysborough. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
