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Most Reservoir fireplaces are wood heaters and slow-combustion fires retrofitted into post-war homes, with brick chimneys in the older pockets and insulated steel on the new townhouses. FreshDuct sweeps all three properly and shows you the photos.
Slow-combustion fire run low all night? Its flue needs a sweep more than an open fire does.
Walk down a Reservoir street and most of the chimneys you see are not chimneys at all but steel flues, added when a wood heater or slow-combustion fire went into a double-fronted brick or weatherboard home that was built without a fireplace. That flue is the whole system. It rises from the heater, through the ceiling and out through the tiles or tin, and every winter of burning coats its inside with creosote that has nowhere else to go.
Slow-combustion fires are the worst for it. They are built to burn shut down overnight, which keeps the house warm and the flue cool, and a cool flue condenses smoke into a tarry layer that hardens with each cycle. We sweep the full run with a brush sized to the flue, firebox sealed and a vacuum capturing the fall, and while we are on the roof we look at the flashing and cowl, because on a retrofit both are as old as the heater.
The suburb is not all steel. The older pockets still have brick chimneys with unlined flues and a smoke shelf, and the new townhouses squeezed in between run insulated steel systems that are only a few years old and still collect deposit every time they are lit. We carry rods and heads for all three, camera whichever one you have, and leave you before and after photos and a plain word on what the flue needs, if anything.
A full sweep for a retrofitted wood heater or slow-combustion flue in a post-war Reservoir home, or for the brick chimneys and townhouse flues on the same street.
A slow-combustion fire shut down overnight runs its flue cool, and cool flues lay down tarry creosote that hardens with each burn. We sweep the full run with a head sized to the flue and photograph the walls before and after.
A retrofit flue in Reservoir is often a couple of decades old, and its flashing and cowl have been in the weather the whole time. While we are on the roof for the sweep we check both and tell you if either is on its way out.
Reservoir has unlined brick in the older pockets, retrofit steel in the post-war homes and insulated systems in the townhouses. Each needs different rods and heads, and each is swept as what it is rather than run through one checklist.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
A retrofit heater usually sits in the main living room of a Reservoir home, so we sheet the area, seal the firebox and keep the vacuum running from the first rod to the last. Nothing from the flue reaches the carpet.
Because a sweep is the one time someone is on your roof looking at the flue, we photograph the flashing and the cowl as well as the inside of the flue. If they are fine, you know; if not, you have the picture.
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 a year before winter, and sooner if it burns shut down every night through the cold months. Slow-combustion fires run their flues cooler than an open fire, which is why they build creosote so readily. If the fire is harder to light than it was, or smoke hangs in the room, book it in.
The sweep clears the full length of the flue, including the section through the ceiling and roof. We also look at the flashing and cowl from the roof while we are there, because on a retrofit they are as old as the heater, and we photograph them so you can see their condition.
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 Reservoir. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
