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St Kilda's Victorian terraces and boom-era mansions were built with a fireplace in every room, and many are now flats sharing one tall stack. FreshDuct finds your flue, sweeps it top to bottom and photographs it, with the bay's salt taken into account.
Fireplace in a converted St Kilda flat? We identify which of the stack's flues is yours before a brush goes in.
Fireplaces in St Kilda were built by the dozen. A boom-era mansion or a big Victorian terrace had one in nearly every room, all rising into a handful of tall stacks, and when those buildings became guesthouses and then flats, the fireplaces were split between owners but the stacks were not. So the first question on a St Kilda sweep is which of the several flues in that stack is yours, and the second is whether anyone has looked at it since the conversion.
We answer the first with a smoke or light test from your fireplace to the roof, and the second with a camera. Then the sweep runs the full height, which in a tall terrace means a lot of rod, with the opening sealed and the vacuum on from the first pass to the last. The deposit in a bayside flue stays damp and clings, so the brush is worked until the camera shows clean brick, not until the rods stop bringing soot down.
What you get at the end is a photo report for your flue and a note on the rest of the stack, because on a shared chimney the neighbours' disused flues and the salt-eaten cap at the top are everyone's problem. If the camera finds something above your section, we tell you plainly so it can be raised with the other owners, rather than leaving you to find out from a leak.
A full-height sweep of your flue in a shared St Kilda stack, identified first, brushed to clean brick and reported with photos you can pass to the other owners.
In a converted St Kilda mansion the stack above your fireplace may carry the flues of several other flats. We test from your firebox to see which pot answers, so the flue we sweep and photograph is the one you light.
A St Kilda terrace flue is a long way from firebox to pot, and a sweep that runs out of rod halfway leaves the top half untouched. We carry enough to reach the pot and confirm on camera that the head got there.
Sea air off Port Phillip keeps the soot in a St Kilda flue moist, so it smears and clings rather than falling. That takes more passes with a rotary head and a check on camera before we call the flue clean.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
Sweeping in a converted St Kilda building means working in someone's living room with neighbours through the wall. The opening is sealed, the vacuum runs throughout and the floor is covered, so the flat is as we found it when we leave.
The report shows your flue before and after and notes anything on the shared stack that the other owners should know about, which is useful when a building has to decide together what to do about its chimneys.
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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Yes. Sweeping is done from your fireplace with the opening sealed, so it does not disturb other flats. We identify your flue, sweep and camera it and report on it. If we spot something on the shared stack, you or your landlord can raise it with the other owners.
Not until it is checked. A flue sealed at the bottom but open at the pot for decades collects birds, debris and salt-damp soot along its whole height. We camera it, sweep it to the top and tell you honestly whether it is sound or needs a liner before you light it.
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 St Kilda. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
