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Rant: That day a bird nest almost cost me a chimney liner
I was on a job in Portland cleaning a flue last Tuesday, and I didn't spot the nest until I shoved the brush in. It collapsed and wedged the brush halfway down, took me 45 minutes with a shop vac and a hook tool to pull it all out. Has anyone else had a nest turn a routine clean into a nightmare?
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julia_carter613mo ago
Bet that nest was full of old creosote chunks too. Now you have a fun new fire hazard to worry about.
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charles_baker283mo ago
Man I had a rental chimney that was basically solid creosote when I moved in, took me three weekends just to chip it all out. Glad you got it cleaned before something bad happened.
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fisher.thomas3mo ago
Did you get any splinters from the wood while you were fishing that mess out? A buddy of mine had a similar thing happen last fall, and he said the nest was so packed with dry twigs and leaf litter that it basically exploded into a cloud of dust when the brush hit it. He spent the next hour coughing and digging chunks out with a claw hammer, and the shop vac kept clogging every few minutes. By the end he just gave up and called a pro to finish the job, which cost him twice what the original cleaning would have been.
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