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In Hawthorn's Victorian terraces and Edwardian villas one brick stack often carries the flues of two or three rooms. FreshDuct works out which flue serves which fireplace, sweeps each one to the top and photographs the lot.
Hawthorn terrace with fireplaces back to back? We sweep each flue in the stack, not just the one you use.
Hawthorn's Victorian and Edwardian houses were heated room by room, so a single chimney stack frequently carries two or three separate flues that leave their fireplaces, bend around each other inside the brickwork and emerge as a row of pots. In a terrace the stack may sit on the party wall. None of that matters until someone sweeps only the flue they use and assumes the rest of the chimney is fine.
Our first job on a Hawthorn sweep is mapping the stack. A light or smoke test from each fireplace shows which pot it reaches, and a camera up the bends confirms nothing has broken through between one flue and its neighbour. Then each flue is swept on its own, from the hearth with the opening sealed and the vacuum running, with rods flexible enough to follow the kinks that these old flues take around each other.
The flues nobody lights get the same attention, because that is where Hawthorn birds nest and where a decade of fallen soot sits on a smoke shelf a metre above a boarded-up firebox. We clear those too, and the report you get shows every flue in the stack with its before and after photo, so the next owner or the next winter starts from a known state rather than a guess.
A sweep and clean of every flue in a shared Victorian or Edwardian stack, mapped first, swept individually and photographed.
Inside a Hawthorn stack the flues twist past one another to reach their pots, and a rigid brush stalls at the first bend. We use rods that follow the kinks and a camera to confirm the head has gone the full distance.
A blocked, unswept flue sharing a stack with a live one is the classic Hawthorn terrace hazard. Cracked withes between them can let heat and smoke cross over, so we sweep and camera the idle flue as well and report on the divider.
Hawthorn's ornate terraces still have their original mantels and grates. We mask and cover the fireplace surround before the opening is sealed, lift out a loose grate rather than sweep around it, and put the room back the way it was.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
In a Hawthorn villa the lounge, dining room and a bedroom can all feed one stack. Mapping the flues first means the brush goes up the right one, and we can say which pot serves which room before anything is lit.
Each flue gets its own before and after photo, and the whole stack gets a summary you can hand to a neighbour or a future buyer. The price is agreed before we start, and you pay once the room is back to normal.
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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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No, they will be separate flues sharing one stack. We test from each fireplace to find its pot, camera the flues to check the brickwork between them is intact, and sweep each one on its own. If the divider between them has cracked, you hear about it with a photo before either is lit.
All of them, if you want the stack properly checked. Idle flues in Hawthorn collect nests and old soot and share brickwork with the flue you do light. Sweeping and photographing each one is the only way to say the whole chimney is clear.
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 Hawthorn. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
