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Campbellfield's post-war brick homes still have their original open fireplaces, and many have not been lit since gas arrived. FreshDuct sweeps the old unlined flue, clears whatever has settled in it and photographs the result.
Lighting an old Campbellfield fireplace again? Have the flue cameraed and swept before the first match goes in.
The fireplaces on Campbellfield's residential streets belong to modest post-war brick homes, built when an open fire did the heating through winter. That means a solid brick stack, a straight flue with no liner, and a firebox that has either burned every winter since or was shut up the year the gas heater arrived. The deposit in these flues is dry, flaky and layered rather than damp, and it comes away in sheets once a rotary brush gets to it.
The trouble with an idle flue is what moves in while nobody is looking. A stack left open over a retired fireplace collects nesting material, fallen mortar and leaf litter on the smoke shelf, and the first fire in years smokes the room out because there is no way through. Where a wood heater has been slotted into the old opening instead, soot gathers in the gap between the heater pipe and the brick around it, where a quick brush never reaches.
So a Campbellfield sweep starts with a camera, not a brush. We look up the flue first, because a nest or a fall of mortar needs to be broken up and drawn into the vacuum in pieces rather than pushed. Then the opening is sealed, rods and a rotary head go the full height of the stack, the smoke shelf is emptied, and you get photos of the flue walls before and after so the decision to light it is an informed one.
A full sweep for an original post-war brick flue, whether it has burned every winter or is being brought back into use after years on gas.
Without a liner, every winter since the house was built has left something on the brick. Dry inland soot builds in layers, so we brush to bare brick with a rotary head sized to the flue rather than skimming the loose top coat and calling it swept.
A fireplace retired when the gas heater went in usually lost its cap too, and an open stack on a quiet street is prime nesting. We camera the flue first, break the nest up from below and take it out through the vacuum, not the lounge room.
Plenty of Campbellfield fireplaces now hold an inbuilt wood heater with a steel pipe run up the old brick flue. The heater side gets its baffle out and firebox cleaned, and the brick flue around the pipe is swept too, because soot collects there just as readily.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
Before an old Campbellfield fireplace is lit again we want to know three things: that the flue is clear from firebox to sky, that nothing is blocking the smoke shelf, and that the brick is not cracked. The sweep answers all three, on camera.
If the flue is sound you get the photos and the all-clear. If it is not, you get photos of exactly what we saw and a firm price for the fix, and the choice of whether to go ahead is entirely yours.
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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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Usually, provided the camera shows the flue is intact. We clear the nest or debris, sweep to bare brick and check the firebox and cap. If the brickwork or cap needs work first, you get photos and a firm price before anything is lit.
Yes. The baffle comes out and the heater flue is swept through the appliance, and the old brick flue around the pipe is brushed and vacuumed as well. Soot settles in that gap, and leaving it is how a heater retrofit ends up smelling of smoke.
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 Campbellfield. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
