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Cream and red-brick Chadstone homes from the 1950s and 60s have burned wood for a long time, in the original open fireplace or a heater fitted into it. FreshDuct sweeps the full flue, vacuums the firebox and shows you the before and after.
Chadstone heater or open fire? One sweep covers the flue from the firebox to the pot, with photos.
A Chadstone chimney is usually a plain brick flue on a mid-century home, and plainness is a virtue when it comes to sweeping. There are no kinks, no shared party walls and rarely more than one fireplace per house. What there is, though, is time. Many of these homes have been in the same hands for decades, the fire has been lit every winter, and nobody has looked up the flue since the heater went in.
That history shows up as creosote laid down in stages. Open-fire soot from the early years sits against the brick, a glazed layer from a slow-burning heater sits on top of it, and the two together narrow the flue and hold heat where it should not be held. Our sweep uses a rotary head that cuts through both, worked from the firebox to the pot, with the opening sealed and a vacuum running so the living room stays clean.
Where a heater has been fitted into the old opening, we sweep above the heater and clear the space behind it, because that is where the fallen deposit collects and where a chimney fire tends to start. The camera goes up before and after, so you see the brick walls come back, and if the flue is glazed beyond what a standard sweep shifts we say so and quote a deep clean rather than pretend.
Everything a hard-working post-war flue needs after another winter, including the space behind a fitted heater that other sweeps skip.
Open-fire soot from the 1960s and heater glaze from the 2000s can sit in the same Chadstone flue. A rotary head sized to the brick cuts through both, and the camera confirms the walls are clean before we pack up.
When a heater sits inside the old fireplace, swept deposit lands behind it and stays there. We pull enough to vacuum that void, because a pile of dry creosote behind a hot firebox is how flue fires begin.
Straight mid-century flues sweep cleanly, so the visit has time for a proper look at the mortar and the pot from the roof. You get told what fifty years of weather has done up there, with photos, and nothing is sold that is not needed.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
Plenty of Chadstone chimneys have gone decades without anyone looking up them. The first sweep after that long is done with the camera before and after, so the layered deposit and the state of the brick are seen rather than guessed at, and the brush is chosen to suit.
The before and after photos of the flue are yours to keep. If the pot and mortar are sound we tell you that too, so a sweep is a sweep and not a lead-in to work you do not need.
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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It is worth doing. Decades of open-fire soot with heater glaze on top narrows the flue and holds heat where it should not, which is the layer a chimney fire feeds on. We camera it, sweep it to the brick and show you what came out; if it has glazed past a standard sweep, we quote a deep clean first.
Not necessarily. Decades of open-fire soot often brushes out with a standard sweep, and the camera shows us straight away whether the deposit has glazed. If it has, we quote a deep clean on the spot and you decide, with no obligation and no call-out fee either way.
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 Chadstone. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
