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A double-storey Prahran terrace can have four or five fireplaces on one stack, each with a long, slim flue that has never been lined. FreshDuct sweeps the full height with the right rods, cameras the run and leaves before and after photos of each flue you use.
Two-storey terrace with lounge and bedroom fireplaces? We sweep the flues you actually use and tell you honestly about the rest.
The Victorian terraces off Chapel Street were built with a fireplace in nearly every room, and the flues from a lounge, a dining room and two bedrooms all rise inside one ornate stack above the parapet. Each is slim and long, and in a two-storey terrace the ground-floor flue runs the height of the house before it reaches the pot. None were lined, so the creosote sits on brick the whole way up.
Length is the whole job here. We add rods until the rotary brush reaches the pot, not until it feels done, and on a shared stack we confirm from the roof that the flue we are sweeping is the one that serves your fireplace. The opening is sealed and a contained vacuum runs throughout, then a camera goes up the run to check the walls and the top, where the mortar weathers hardest and the deposit sits thickest.
Bedroom fireplaces that have not been lit in years, and any fireplace in one of Prahran's art deco flats or converted buildings, need a different answer: usually a camera check to see whether the flue is open, blocked or capped, and honest advice on whether it is worth sweeping at all. You get photos of every flue we touch, and the hearth is left clean.
A full-height sweep and camera check for the long, unlined flues of Prahran's single and double-storey terraces.
A ground-floor flue in a two-storey Prahran terrace is a long run for a brush. We keep adding rods until the head reaches the pot and confirm on camera, because the top is where a short sweep leaves the deposit.
With nothing smooth for it to slide down, creosote coats the brick of a terrace flue along its full length, thickest near the top. A rotary head worked the whole run clears it; a token brush from the grate does not.
Lounge, dining and bedroom fireplaces share an ornate stack. We sweep the ones you use, identify which pot each serves and tell you plainly whether an idle bedroom flue is worth cleaning or better left capped.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
Prahran terraces are furnished to be looked at, so drop sheets go down first, the fireplace opening is sealed, and the vacuum runs from the first rod to the last while the brush works a flue that may be two storeys long.
Before and after photos of the flue come with the sweep. If the camera finds cracked joints high up or a pot letting rain in, you see the picture and hear the honest options.
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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Any flue you want to use. A bedroom flue is shorter but usually narrower and long idle, so we camera it first to check for blockages and cracked joints. If it is sound we sweep it; if it is better capped and left, we say so with a photo.
From inside with enough rods to carry the brush the full height, confirmed on camera, and from the roof where the stack needs checking above the parapet. A drone or roof inspection shows the pots and the crown without scaffold for a sweep.
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 Prahran. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
