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An Edwardian villa or interwar home in Essendon can have three or four fireplaces on original unlined flues, and the one you use most has done the most work. FreshDuct sweeps it to bare brick, cameras it, and leaves photos of the result.
Only one of your Essendon fireplaces gets used? That is the flue that needs the sweep, and the others need a look.
The homes along Essendon's wide streets off Buckley Street and Mount Alexander Road were built when every principal room had its own fireplace. An Edwardian villa near Queens Park might carry two chimneys and four flues; a Californian bungalow toward Aberfeldie usually has one substantial stack serving the living room. Most of those flues are still original, still unlined, and the brick inside them has been collecting soot for close to a century.
Bare period brick is a rough surface, and creosote grips it rather than sliding down to the grate. The deposit builds in a hard ridge at the smoke shelf and along the throat, which is exactly where a token brush from the fireplace never reaches. We seal the opening, run a contained vacuum and work a rotary head sized to the flue right through to the pot, adding rods until the brush is at the top of a tall villa stack.
Because an Essendon house often has flues that have not been lit in decades, we look at those as well while we are there. A disused flue can hold a nest, fallen mortar or a bricked-up throat that stops the main fireplace drawing properly. The camera goes up the working flue before and after the sweep so you can see the walls back to brick, and you get the photos.
A full sweep for a tall unlined period flue, with the smoke shelf and throat cleared and the other flues in the house checked while we are there.
A two-storey Edwardian stack takes more rods than most sweeps carry. We keep adding them until the brush is at the pot, because a sweep that stops short leaves the hardest deposit in the coldest part of the flue where it does the most harm.
Unlined Essendon flues hold soot in the joints and along the throat rather than dropping it to the grate. A rotary head sized to the flue takes it off; a soft brush only polishes it. The after photos show which you got.
Period homes have fireplaces that were closed off decades ago. We check those flues for nests and fallen mortar, because a blocked neighbour flue in the same stack changes how the one you use draws and smokes.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
Essendon living rooms have polished boards, rugs and period fireplaces with tiled hearths. Drop sheets go over all of it, the opening is sealed, and the vacuum runs from the first rod to the last so soot never has the chance to settle anywhere but the drum.
The before and after camera photos of the flue are yours. If the mortar is sound and the pot is on, we say so; if something needs a repair or a cap, we photograph that too and quote it separately.
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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No. The fireplace you use gets the full sweep. The disused flues get a look, because a nest or fallen mortar in one of them can affect how the working flue draws, and a bricked-up throat may be holding damp. We tell you what we find in each and only quote work that is needed.
Yes, and most period Essendon fireplaces are exactly that. We seal the opening with a plate rather than relying on a damper, run the vacuum through the seal, and sweep the throat and smoke shelf where the deposit sits thickest on an open flue.
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 Essendon. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
