Despite the variety of modern heating systems, stove heating in Russia remains all also in demand. Plus, many cottages now put wood fireplaces that bring in a dwelling unique comfort. However, owners of such foci comes sooner or later to decide how to clean the chimney in their home. After all, it is gradually clogging, which inevitably affects the quality of burning of firewood.

What caused clogging of chimneys

The clogging of chimneys is due to:

• use of raw and / or resin wood;
• inspection of thrust in the chimney pipe and firebox;
• burning in the furnace of garbage.

Chimney before and after cleaning

In the ideal case, firewood in the furnace is completely roasting, and only carbon dioxide gas, water vapors and the minimum amount of small ashes go into the chimney. But with incomplete combustion of wood, resins and large volumes of soot are also falling into the pipe. Moreover, together with condensate, this mixture is settled on the walls of the chimney channel and gradually narrows it. Here are these layers and have to regularly delete, cleaning the chimney.

Than dangerous clogging of chimney

It does not matter with a chimney pipe of metallic (from stainless steel or conventional steel), brick or asbestos-cement. Even if it is so fashionable now Sandwich option, soot inside in any case will settle.

Remove the chimney will still have to be cleaned. The material of its manufacture affects only the frequency of performing these sewage work. On brick, soot deposits accumulate faster than a smoother surface of stainless steel. But the cleaning of any smoky pipe in a private house is sooner or late to produce.

Consequences of overheating of chimney

If the chimney does not clean in time, it is too much narrowed in diameter. And this threatens a decrease in thrust with its possible falling down and smoking the room with a furnace, an increase in condensate in a pipe and a decrease in the electric tract. Plus, unburned particles often remain in soot, which, with a large cluster, can ignite in the chimney and lead to the root of its walls. The fire in such a situation is inevitable.

How often do clean pipe

Cleaning chimney pipes should be cleaned at the first sign of their narrowing. For this, constant channel checks are carried out. Depending on the purpose of the furnace and the material of the chimney, they must be checked for a minimum:

• for heating boilers - once a year;
• for hob heating stoves - three times in the year;
• from brick - quarterly;
• from asbestoscent - once a year.

Ready tools for chimney cleaning

One of the chimney checks is recommended immediately before the heating season. Plus, one more additional will not interfere with the intensive use of the furnace in severe frosts. In this, the disharmonation of smoke is similar to ventilation and air conditioning. The same split system passes a similar regular testing with cleaning. Moreover, it is also recommended to check and clean it in front of the use season and during its high intensity of equipment operation.

Drochod cleaning encycle design

How to clean the chimney

When identifying problems, it is possible to clean the chimneys with the help of both professional methods and folk. To do this, it is enough to take advantage of mechanical devices, special chemistry and just household salt or starch. But much here depends on the degree of clogging and volumes of soot inside. Often, at similar cleaning, you have to resort immediately to several methods.

How to clean the chimney yourself

Mechanical methods

The most efficient way to clean the chimney is mechanical. Petroppers use them not the first century, the entire technology of this process is worked out during this time to the smallest detail. It is possible to clean this method with a chimney tube as below from the furnace firebox (fireplace focus), and on top from the roof. But there are nuances.

On the top of this way, only the vertical section of the chimney can be cleared.

How to clean the chimney telescopic hero

The places of turns of the pipe should be cleaned from the soot from the inside of the house through the furnace or special doors (holes) in the furnace masonry.

As a tool in mechanical cleaning, it is used:

1. Hars on a stick or rope with a ship at the bottom.
2. ERS on a flexible cable (similar analogs are applied by plumbing).
3. Metal scraper for highly emerged sour spots.

How to clear the chimney from below

The ERS can be metallic or plastic. Brushing stainless steel chimneys is recommended for plastic option. And scraping the brick from the brick with a brush with the "Vorki" from iron.

How to make a floss for cleaning chimney from plastic bottles

Chemical methods

If you do not want to try on the role of a pipeline on the roof, you can use specialized chemistry. Now there are weights of copper chloride and ammonium sulfate with phosphorus oxide. At first glance, how to choose the air conditioner for the apartment, to understand the range of similar chemicals is difficult. But everything is simple enough - it is allowed to take any option.

How the chemical cleansing of the chimney works

These chemicals during combustion are separated by smoke, which rises along the pipe up and breaks the soot, resulting in it drops down. Then it should only be collected by a scroll from the bends of the chimney and the furnace firebox or fireplace.

A similar chemistry is produced in the form of powders in bags and briquettes. The main nuance of their use is the need to carefully carry out housing when cleaning and immediately after.

Unfortunately, it is quite often about the cleaning of the chimney thinking when the thrust already disappears and the opposite appears - the smoke is simply going into the room. But this is the extreme degree of floating chimney. But even at the beginning of the problem, you already breathe not only by smoke, which seems safe (we all are on the barbecue), but also dangerous carbon monoxide gases. And soot, which accumulates on the walls of the chimney, can even light up and lead to a fire!

That is why the profession of a pipeline has long been and worshiped. And today's owners of private houses and baths absolutely does not scare the chimney cleaning - today a wide variety of special brushes are sold for this purpose, with a long handle or telescopic, round in the form of a loss with a load on a cable or more intricate. And believe me, nothing is cunning in this matter!

When is the cleaning time comes?

It is not possible to do without cleaning the chimney to completely, from what kind of material and what kind of structure it is. After all, over time, due to the soot, the passage in chimneys is narrowed and the so-called reverse thrust effect occurs when smoke is not on the street, but to the room. If you wait a little more time, then any furnace will just come into disrepair. Not to mention that the reverse thrust is dangerous even for people living inside the house!

When appropriate to the problem of chimney cleaning, factors should be considered:

1. Idle time, namely, how long there was no cleaning.
2. What is the design of the chimney how smoothly the walls and what is the rows of its operation.
3. What kind of fuel was used, there were plastic bottles or similar garbage into the furnace.
4. Whether raw firewood was not used.
5. Whether pine or fir-firmed were among firewood, because They are settled by resinous substances on the wall of the chimney.

Note that your chimney requires cleaning, you can independently on such signs:

• Change the color of smoke. Ideally, if there is almost transparent, poorly white smoke on the street and bad if it becomes dark - it says about the presence of a large amount of soot.
• Changing the color of the flame. Signals about problems also color of fire in the furnace: if such light orange and firewood crackle, it means everything is in order. And if the flame becomes dark orange, almost orange is a sign that the chimney needs to be cleaned.
• And finally, the easiest and most logical method remains - a prophylactic examination of the chimney. Well, if this will be able to do a professional master, but even you can notice problems. For example, professional carp chores are lowered in the chimney special cargo on the diameter of the pipe, and if it easily passes - everything is in order, if rests - it means it will have to be cleaned.

Moreover, the situation with the soot can reach such a critical point when pollution completely overlaps the chimney and ice jams occur. And even worse - coking when the soot accumulates on the bumps and roasted there to large solid fractions, similar to coal. Such fractions clog the chimney and overlap the thrust. And to remove all this, alone only the rash with the cargo will not be enough, you will have to raise the chimney and clean the furnace with the help of a special jack. That is why all parts of the chimney so important to do straight. And on rare bends install tees with a cleansing system.

Total, today, three types of methods for cleaning the chimney are practiced: mechanical, with special devices that need to penetrate into the pipe, biological, when natural ingredients are used and chemical when cleaning is performed using industrial special preparations. Let us dwell on each of them in more detail.

Mechanical flushing of chimney: only in the warm season

As a rule, the usual owners of furnaces and fireplaces purify their chimney once, before each heating season and well, if this happens enough. And the mechanical method is the oldest and even today it makes sense:

You can clean the chimney as inside the house, bottom, and on top, right from the roof. And for each method there is a tool.

If you have chosen that brush that is used on top, you need to tie the rope to it and hook a cargo on it, and then run into the chimney through the roof. This will be held along the whole chimney and hooked with him soot from the walls. It is important only to omit the rash with neatly and gradually, slowly, so that the soot gathered with a qualitatively and at the same time did not damage the chimney itself. In the same way, lower and lift the ERS several times until it becomes noticeable that the soot is cleaned and the blocking breaks.

Usually such a rash is enough to three heating seasons. But this method has its own minuses:

• First, you will need a lot of time for all this, at least an hour;
• Secondly, if you need to clean the chimney, you will not always be able to get out to the roof, especially when it is snow and the wind is strong;
• And finally, such a device is quite difficult to clean the knee of chimney and hard-to-reach places, or the chimney itself is arranged in such a way that it is generally impossible to be cleaned from the outside, through the roof.

And the method of cleaning the chimney is less safer for a person, out of the room. You will calmly do all the necessary work and do not risk life. Just take the rash, place it on a flexible holder and shake through the heating device or a special revision hole.

In addition, from the bottom, with the help of long flexible holders, soot easily clean even in high bends:

For example, the brush with the telescopic holder is good because it is convenient to use on the roof: you just need to insert one item to another, gradually dropping the brush down, and in the reverse order to disassemble at the upstairs:

Here is a step-by-step illustration, which is necessary for the mechanical cleaning of the chimney by the heroes and the cargo:

Cleaning folk methods: in the snow, and in the rain

Today, many are asked: how to clear the chimney from the soot by folk remedies in the middle of winter, without the need for mechanical cleaning, is safe and securely?

The most famous biological methods (they are usually called folk) - it is cleaning potato cleaning. This method avoids the coarse mechanical removal of soot from the walls of the chimney and is ideal for the terrain, where the heating season is long enough, because then you do not have to stop the furnace furnace for a long time.

The second method is dry aspen firewood, which is lit so quickly and hot, which burn all the soot in the chimney. But this method should be used carefully to actually do not lead to fire.

The third relatively cheap and reliable method to extend the life of the chimney during the heating season is to sprinkle with a salt of firewood. At each extractor, the salt binds to South and does not allow it to settle on the chimney walls.

You will be surprised, but even the usual, long-known in Russia cleaning the chimney potato cleaning actually the method is quite effective:

We will give only a small advice: if you want to clean the chimney of the peel from raw potatoes, you need to get it at least half a bucket. When the peel is burned, there will remain starch, which is a sorry, and that simply causals down. After that, all the ashes will need to simply remove from the furnace.

Chemical cleaning: care for!

But it happens that soot is hard to clean, especially if old firewood was used, and then you will have to resort to the chemical method. The advantage of this method is that it does not take your time or your strength.

A variety of special means for cleaning chimneys today is pleased with the eye: liquid, briquettes, special powders. Their secret is that such substances ignite in the heating device and they allocate active gases, which are afraid of soot. Under their influence, it becomes fragile and begins to disappear. Moreover, part of small particles simply flies along with the smoke, and the rest falls down and is already removed along with the ashes.

The powders are simply thrown into the firebox without unpacking, right with firewood, and the woods themselves should be much. You will need just every two or three weeks to throw one bag. The only limitation of this method is that the powder means makes sense to use only if the soot on the chimney walls are not more than 2 millimeters. But if you use such powder constantly, cleaning the chimneys do not need:

But if you have a plunder problem, then you have to use it - this is a chemical in the form of a briquette, which is enough to put in the furnace once in two months, also in the package. It is used when the firewood has already overloaded to set fire to separately. The composition of such a wooden peeling, urea, sodium sulfate, coal wax, ammonium sulfate and amorphous silicon.

Such a composition of active substances is capable of removing all accumulated soot in the chimney. After you burn the chemical is covered inside the furnace, two weeks will fall from the walls of the chimney of the soot, and it will simply need to be cleaned.

It is very convenient: just put it in the fire, and the chemical gases corrosive soot not only on the surface of the walls of the chimney, but also inside the heating device itself, even on the heat exchanger and the inner chimney. And in its own way even prevents the appearance of new soot. It is this method that allows you to remove soot in the most hard-to-reach places of bends and knees. And, most importantly, you can make such a cleaning at any time of the year - even with an active winter firebox. The only moment: if the chimney has not already been cleaned enough, it is clearly felt by the jam and almost absent, then you will have to use the brush anyway.

Here is a clear example of how to clean the chimney with modern chemicals:

Professional chimney cleaning: quickly, reliably and expensive

Oddly, it sounds, all over the world, the profession of a pipeline exists and is valued so far. You will be interested to know that the traditional cylinder has always been a privilege of only the master. And to become such, it was necessary not to serve as an apprentice - so complicated this specialty.

In recent years, the patina profession was on the verge of extinction, and only relatively recently she became sharply popular. It's all about fires due to poor quality chimneys and their operation. The modern house is so expensive today that it is wiser to hire a specialist than to rely on "Avos." And the truth, where it is more logical to call a professional carpiece before the start of the heating season, and not a fire truck in the middle of winter.

For a long time, the All-Russian Voluntary Fire Society was engaged in the chimney, but today such services are already offered more private firms. Indeed, the correct work of modern chimneys requires periodic audit, cleaning and prevention. So there was such a concept as professional chimney cleaning, when a special technique is brought to such a goal. For example, a special vacuum cleaner that simply sucks the chimney from the chimney through the furnace. And you do not need to drag it through the entire room (and the flying of flying and is poorly laundered from the furniture).

Therefore, to today, professional cleaning is simply not to do in the most launched cases when:

• chimney is covered with a dense layer of solid soot (especially from wet wood);
• the walls of the chimney are old and damaged, and soot tightly cling to them;
• you have no desire to engage in such black work.

In practice, it looks like this:

For example, special devices are used in professional cleaning of chimneys of private houses:

Modern high-speed installations are coping with their task quite quickly, which completely clean the chimney literally per hour:

How to make self-cleaning devices

Special devices for cleaning the chimney from soot are sold in a conventional construction supermarket or a specialized store, or make it personally.

Let's compare the metal rash with plastic. Let's start with the fact that the metal rash, of course, will maintain its working form longer, but with a particularly intensive cleaning, the chimney from the inside is capable of scratching. Modern plastic enshiks are soft, the chimney scratch is much smaller, the truth is not long and easily climbed, losing their working form. That is why among the dachensors there is a checked rule: for a brick chimney, take a metal rash, and for metal - plastic. These are mainly such devices:

Plastic Ershik: short-lived, but gentle for chimney

Plastic rash make easier simple:

If you are going to build such a rash to clean the chimney, then all work will take you not more than 15 minutes.

So, the usual chimney to clean the chimney is a strong base with a brush, which has grown through a metal wire with a load on the chain. To all this will need a rope, according to which the rash will need to be lowered into the chimney. Instead of cargo and rope, it is also quite enough to use a special holder. At least, then the rash will not get stuck in the chimney and it does not have to pull out from there.

Brushy plastic bottles: without any cost

Moreover, homemade hero you can even make an ordinary plastic bottle (at least a few). Just 2-3 such rams are enough for one season. So, here's how to make such a rash bottle:

• Step 1. Make round holes on the center cover.
• Step 2. Cut the walls of the bottles on the strips along, about 1.5 or 2 centimeters width.
• Step 3. In the bottom of the bottle, do the hole with a heated nail and the net to the wire 5 mm thick.
• Step 4. Now simply insert one bottle into another through the cut strips and attach to one end to the thick wire.
• Step 5. Slide two plastic bottles, click and fix them so that it is convenient to tie them with plastic wire.
• Step 6. Spray the chopped plastic strips evenly in a circle and secure the steel cable as ready.

The only complexity of such manufacturing is to make the load and the rope (cable) exactly in the center, and the ERS did not flush during use.

Hard Round Brush: Entering Programming Materials

Another excellent option is to make such an enshik from a disk brush for a grinder. Such a brush is much stronger than previous options and can cope even with the soot itself. It is only important that the brush diameter turns out to be equal to the diameter of the chimney, because her bristles are hard and bend badly:

To such a brush, it is necessary to suspend the load with a weight of about 5 kg on a steel cable, followed by which you will pull the chimney brush. Just in case, attach another cable to the cargo, which will help another person from the inside of the room to stretch the stuck brush. It is important that the load is at the same time to at least a third of less than the chimney, otherwise it will be hooked and if you have to tinker.

It is necessary to clean the chimney like self-made devices like this:

• Step 1. Remove the roof, remove the damper from the chimney and lower the brush into the chimney to the very end.
• Step 2. Start pull now the brush back.
• Step 3. Lower the brush again and pull out again.
• Step 4. All this needs to be done within a few minutes, consider that at the bottom, inside the room will be abundant soot and it needs to be removed.

As you can see, everything is simple!

Asymmetric wires from a wire: for complex sequels

If your chimney does not have a greater length, knees, bends and clogged not strongly (for example, we are talking about chimney in a seasonal bath), it is also suitable for its uniform cleaners:

Telescopic enshik: for work from the room

Usually, flexible meter sticks are good as a gesture, which twisted into each other and are also called telescopic, otherwise teams. It's easy to work with him:

• Step 1. Spin the rash to the first handle, stick right through the heating device, push and clean so one meter.
• Step 2. The next step towards the end of the handle that you still hold and which sticks out of the chimney, screw the second and push, thus, the brush is still on the meter up the chimney.
• Step 4. Repeat the whole process until you fully clean the entire chimney.

Look at how easy it is in practice:

Telescopic heroic can penetrate into the chimney pipe very deeply:

Such a brush is perceptibly more expensive than the previous version, but the advantage is that such sticks are usually not broken, and serve long enough. In addition, with such a tough handle it is easier to push the blockage in chimney. To all, this method is quite difficult to remove South in the knees of the wins of the chimney.

As for the selection of the sizes of the rash, everything is simple: it is necessary to select this in the diameter of the chimney, it is desirable equal to it or 12 cm more so that the rash can calmly cling, and not sliding along the walls, not getting slightly to them:

Let's summarize: whatever fixture you have used for self cleaning the chimney, the main thing is to produce this cleaning regularly.

Any fireplace requires care regardless of its size and device. One of the main ways to care is cleaning the chimney from soot. The question of how to clean the chimney by folk remedies worries many owners of fireplaces and stoves, and most are addressed to specialized services. However, perform such an event as cleaning the chimney in the bath can also be independently in various ways.

How to drown to avoid the appearance of soot? And how to determine what you need to clean the chimney?

The degree, the rate of clogging and the need to perform such an action as the flushing of the chimney with their own hands depend primarily from the combed fuel. The better fuel and higher quality of the framework of the fireplace or oven, the less frequent cleaning. It is better to refrain from burning synthetic materials, plastic and polyethylene elements (garbage, packages) in the focus. Firewood for fuel, regardless of the breed, should be dry. It is better to refrain from using coniferous woods as fuel. They usually contain a large number of resinous substances, which, with each furnace furnace, settled on the walls of the chimney. You can stop your attention on hardwood - this is the most suitable fuel. You need to avoid and painted paper and cardboard boxes - they also leave a lot of soot. The same applies to low-quality coal.

Petropher cleans chimney from soot and soot

High-quality fireplaces for the correct operation can be the first few years of cleaning procedures. However, even if the fireplace is relatively new, but the following symptoms were noticed, then it is better not to delay with cleaning.

Symptoms of chimney clogging:

• deterioration of thrust;
• the fireplace (or oven) began to hide the room worse. As a result, an increase in the required amount of fuel;
• the emergence of smoke indoors;
• change the color of smoke. In a normal functioning heating device, smoke should be white or light gray. The darker smoke, the worse, and the sooner you need to start clearing the chimney from soot;
• changing the color of the flame. With a normally functioning furnace, the flame has a light orange color, and with a large number of accumulated soot it becomes dark red;
• the appearance of sparks departing from the pipe.

The best time of the year for the event is the beginning of the autumn and the end of spring, but any cloudy non-jarous day will be suitable. It is necessary to clean the chimney about two times a year, even if there is no obvious reasons for this.

Ways to clean the chimney

Than you can clean the chimney - the question that causes a stupor in most furnace owners. There are three main ways to clean:

1. Clean folk methods. How to clear the chimney from the soot by folk remedies? It is simple enough, but rather will call this way not to clean, but the prophylaxis of the chimney break. Some people will be available to everyone, and some of them are risky, so they should be treated carefully;
2. Mechanical cleaner is a sure method of getting rid of solid layers of soot, which can be performed independently. Will require special equipment, time and effort;
3. Cleaning chimney with chemicals. Similar to people's ways, the chemical will become an excellent option for the prevention of soot accumulation. However, some drugs will be able to cope with small (several millimeters) layers and save the owner of the furnace from the hassle associated with mechanical cleaning.

Cleaning the chimney with the helms and extension sections of the handle

What will happen if not to clean the chimney?

Consequences of disregarding cleaning:

• fire probability. No matter how incredibly it sounded, but in some cases it is precisely the neglect of the timely purification of the chimney becomes the cause of the fire. In large quantities of soot on the chimney walls, it can light up under the influence of high temperatures. Even if it is possible to avoid fire, smoking soot will cause the cracking of the chimney, and over time it will begin to collapse;
• bad thrust and smoke penetration. The obvious consequence of a poorly cleared chimney. The settlement of soot, which, with each use of the fireplace or oven, is becoming more and more, gradually fills the chimney and the place intended for the passage of smoke is narrowed.

Ways to clean the chimney: folk methods

If it is obvious that it is time to clean the chimney, then you can taste folk methods - it is inexpensive and accessible to everyone. So, how to clear the chimney in simple ways:

• rock salt. An unexpected option, but, nevertheless popular. Stone salt generously sprinkled fuel in the combustion process. Salt need to pour regularly, with each focus firebox. In the process of combustion, a chemical reaction will be formed, thanks to which the soot, located on the chimney walls, will collapse. This method is not suitable for long-unaccustomed chimneys, but is a good and inexpensive way to prevent pollution;
• naphthalene. Pretty effective option, but in a certain sense, risky. Before you begin cleaning the chimney with naphthalene, check that the pipe is intelligible, does not have explicit cracks outside and from the inside. If there are any defects, they must be pushed and give dry insulating materials. If any defects are missing or chimney will not be able to withstand high temperatures, then it may be complete destruction and / or the emergence of a fire. In addition, there should be no extraneous objects in the chimney, and the sump layer should not exceed ten centimeters. After the precautionary measures are made, you can throw in a melted focus of naphthalene. Important: Use no more than one tablet at a time! Naphthalene is an explosive substance and when using it, you need to be very careful. When cleaning naphthalene, the soot will fly out of the pipe in the form of white particles, and the fuel when combustion will produce a characteristic unpleasant odor. Perhaps cleaning the chimney with naphthalene - the most unsafe version, but rather effective;
• use as fuel aspen or alder. The difference between the fuel type is small: Olha burns a little hotter, the flame flare up brighter, the thrust works better, but also to manage such fire will be harder. It is also important to comply with precautionary measures: not every pipe will withstand cleaning from soy aspen or alder. Before applying the method, you must make sure that the pipe is stamina at very high temperatures. The consequences of non-compliance of precautionary measures are unpleasant: destroyed pipe and fire. It is worth noting that even though soot burns well, and this method is considered one of the most effective, it is fraught with a fire and neighboring buildings. Therefore, before burning it is worth closing the valves;
• the use of potatoes or potato cleaning is an original method known for a long time. It will take about the potato bucket (or potato cleaning). In a well-burning flame, potatoes are sprinkled or purification: the highlighted steam will well clean the chimney, while the residues of the soot will fall into the hearth itself - after the procedure may require cleaning. As well as the stone salt, potato cleaning is a means of prophylactic action, but relatively safe. In addition, it is convenient not to dispose of potato cleaning after each preparation of potatoes, but to use them - a certain waste-free production; And the chimney will be in order;
• shells from walnuts. In large families, such a shell can accumulate with bags, and now there is a way to use it. The shell burns perfectly, but in this matter it is important not to overdo it: it is better not to use the husks as the main fuel, but to throw up the burning firewood no more than one and a half liters at a time;
• birch lamps. Less effective than aspen, and are suitable for the prevention of chimney clogging. To get the necessary result, you have to remove the bark and throw the lamps only in the "naked" form;
• canned canned banks made of aluminum. Nowhere to give tin? No problem. Now they can also be used for preventive work.

The most popular and effective people's way - cleaning chimney potato cleaning

Independent manual chimney cleaning: Tools and technology

Manual chimney cleaning is a complex, but effective method. Fixtures that will clean the chimney are the most diverse and found in every home. Among them:

• scrapers;
• chimney cleaning brush (type of sandwich);
• brush and ERS for cleaning the chimney of large sizes;
• wealers on the ropes - can be used for especially dense blockages to clean the chimney pipe that cannot be cleared another. When used, care must be taken to not damage the integrity of the pipe.

It is worth noting that all any tool for cleaning the chimney (rash, special firewood) is better to buy in special stores. To do, for example, the rash or the ERS to clean the chimney is not easy. How to clean the chimney to remove soot and how to clean will be discussed below.

Clean the chimney from soot, the main stages and how to correct the chimney in the bath:

1. Before direct operations must be verified in the stability of the roof stairs and the availability of insurance. You should not neglect the eye protection tools and respiratory tract: the respirator is suitable or at least it is necessary to arm marley. The most suitable weather is a cool cloudless day. In the roof rain, it is unsafe, and you can get a heat or solar blow to hot.
2. The door of the furnace or the fireplace is closed tightly, but the dampers, on the contrary, should be as open as possible. Otherwise, part of the soot will accumulate on the dampers, while the rest of its volume is blurred by the room, and it is not easy to get rid of it. The focus of the fireplace is clown with a dense cloth, which is pre-soaked in water (clean the fabric after use it will be impossible). This will maximize the space around the fireplace from soot. The headband of the chimney is cleaned during the cleaning of the chimney;
3. Cleaning flue pipes - that's where to start. The removal of chimney soot is made from top to bottom: starting from the end of the pipe gradually moving down. I first scrape the available tools to clean the chimney, then cleave the space with brushes and rams.
4. When jaming the tool, you can use a smoothness for chimney. It needs sharply, but neatly, to lower so as not to hurt the walls of the chimney of the furnace;
5. Similar to cleaning the pipes begin to purify the chimney through the door of the furnace to remove the soot from the chimney;
6. Lastly, the focus of the fireplace or pipe is cleared. If it is possible, it is convenient to use the right vacuum cleaner - this will allow you to get rid of soot as quickly as possible;
7. Cleaning the chimney from soot is over, you can now check the craving. If the traction is still not very good when the dress is not very good, and the room is filled with smoke, then the fire must be immediately attached and turn to an experienced specialist - here without his help can not do.

Chimney cleaning with chemicals

A more convenient and practical way than mechanical is a chemical means for cleaning chimneys. It can be powders for cleaning chimneys and fluids that are usually used during fuel combustion. Often, if you use the chimney cleaner from chemical type soot, the flame acquires an unusual color - green or blue. This is a normal phenomenon. Such a change in the color of the flame is evidence of the flowing chemical reaction.

Before you begin to clean the chimney by chemicals, it is necessary to check the absence of foreign objects in the pipe and the focus.

How to clean chemistry chimney? Most popular and effective chemicals:

• cleansing lamps. The same firewood is simply thrown into the main fuel, together with which it burns. With combustion, the substances provoking the chemical reaction will be calculated. The burning soot is not thrown together with the smoke to the street, but crept in the hearth. When using such a chemical composition, a fireplace or oven is molded for several hours to get due effect. Chemical firewood is mainly used to prevent furnaces of chimneys, a serious cootter layer exceeding two millimeters, they will not be cleaned. For prophylaxis, it is enough to burn in one thing that is calculated every six months. Ideal for furnaces and fireplaces, isolated from brick;
• PCC is an anti-chamber chemical composition - perhaps the most popular chemical composition for cleansing the pipe. It is a powder mass that can be burned both separately and along with firewood. Has strict dosage testimony, which is usually indicated on the package;
• kominichek powder is a chemical agent for cleaning Czech production with a charming name. One product packaging is enough for a long time use.

So, it is obvious that it is possible to clean the chimney pipe by folk remedies. The main thing is to remember that the better to care for the furnace or fireplace, the less often it will require radical cleaning, which will have to spend a lot of strength, time and money. Properly serviced furnaces with regular prevention of blockages (twice a year) may not require cleaners for several years, and their owners do not have to think about how to clean the pipe and why she clogged at the last moment.

Patency of flue channels is crucial for normal operation of heating systems. This is especially important for solid fuel thermal units. Chimneys tend to climb the combustion products, while the efficiency of fuel use is reduced and the likelihood of situations that threaten not only the integrity of the property, but also lives in the house of people increases.

How and what to clean the chimney from soot

Heating in a private house is a vital system, which depends not only to comfortable accommodation, but often the property and life of living. A special role is played by the system for removing fuel combustion products from the room - chimney. Its inner surface is gradually contaminated with condensate and soot, while the cross section of the chimney channel decreases, the thrust decreases, and the full-fledged output of the smoke from the room is broken.

Over time, the chimney is clogged with soot, and its ability to divert the combustion products is reduced

Why the chimney is contaminated

The clogging of the smoke channel occurs during the combustion of fuel, when vapor and solid products endured by the flow of furnace gases are distinguished from it. But under certain conditions, they are not completely flying into the pipe. This happens under the following circumstances:

Signs of clogging of chimney

When the flue gas removal can be clogged, it will immediately be visible. The main signs of the Channel Channel will be such phenomena:

What to do if the chimney has been scored

Before the start of the heating season, it is necessary to inspect the chimney from the inside for clogging. In the warm time of the year there may be poultry with a nest or a garbage that is covered in the wind of the wind may appear. To avoid this, the smoke tube should be at the installation stage equipped with a grid with a grid that impedes such situations.

On such a case in the house there should always be a backup heating unit in the form of a carrier or a built-in heating system of an electric heater.

Provided itself with warmth with its help in the cold season, you can thoroughly consider the situation and think over the options out of it.

The presence of thrust in the firebox must be checked at each risi of the furnace - the flame must be rejected towards the chimney

How to clean the chimney

The meaning of this operation lies in the timely cleaning of the walls from the layers of soot and the inward garbage (in the offseason period). When cleaning, it is necessary to check all the separations of the chimney and the oven itself. Lastly it is cleaned by the cleaning of the ashbar and fireboxes. Timely cleaning of the chimney reduces fuel consumption and makes the operation of the furnace safe.

In practice, three basic purification methods are used, two of which are preventive:

1. Chemical and biological methods. Applied as prevention using compounds, softening soot and leading to its partial removal from the smoke channel.
2. Mechanical. It is directly affected by the soot layer with various tools in order to remove it.

If you use such a means correctly and in a timely manner, you can avoid involving a third-party chimney to clean the chimney.

Biological methods of chimney cleaning

All biological methods are based on the addition of any substances in the burning fire. Among the distributed products, you can consider the following:

• potato peelings. This is an old folk agent for the prevention of the formation of the particulate wheels, the simplest and always affordable. The peel must be prepared in advance, accumulating the minimum half of the bucket. It must be dried and deposited in the furnace at the end of the Bookmark burning. Burning, potatoes highlight starch, which softens the soot layer well. It happens that it simply falls down the layers or pieces, part of it is taken out with the furnace gases. This operation is also recommended for mechanical cleaning before performing mechanical cleaning;
• rock salt. The method is applied when the furnace is ignited. The compound softened when the salt heated is well softened by a layer of soot. A tablespoon of salt must be poured over the fuel laying;
• aspen firewood. Firewood from the tree of this breed is distinguished by high heat combustion, so they are laid at the end of the furnace. Hot chicken gases are simply burned directly on the walls of the chimney. The danger of the method is that large layers of soot during the combustion at high self-temperature are able to destroy the chimney and cause a serious fire. Therefore, this method must be applied regularly, laying aspen firewood with small portions. With the same purpose, birch firewood purified from the bark can be used;
• shell of walnuts. The use of this means is also associated with the high temperature of their combustion. Therefore, they can serve as an alternative to aspen wood. But the shell can be used in the amount of no more than two liters at a time. Otherwise, a chimney overheating with predictable consequences is possible.

Photo Gallery: Folk remedies for chimney

The shell of walnuts can not be burned in large quantities - it can steal the chimney burning of the dried cleaning destroys the soot layer due to the selection of starch, the stone salt releases substances, softening the tag on the chimney walls of the aspen firewood burned on the chimney walls due to very high combustion temperatures

Chemicals to remove soot deposition

There are several such funds, and they can be divided into two groups: household goods and special chemicals. The first group can be attributed to:

1. Naphthalene. This is an efficient and quite reliable tool. Under its impact, the soot is separated and endured in the furnace. It is placed in the oven on the flavored firewood. A significant disadvantage is the remaining indoors of the indoor unpleasant odor.Therefore, it is not used in open foci and fireplaces.
2. Blue mixture. It is easy to make it easily independently, if there are several common components at hand. Need to mix:
   • five parts of the copper mood;
   • seven parts of Selitra;
   • two parts of the coke of the middle fraction.

Special chemicals are used to clean chimneys also with a prophylactic goal. Considering the available demand, the industry produces a variety of compounds intended purposefully to combat soot. The form of release can be briquettes, similarity of laminy, powders or solutions. Their action is based on the decomposition of smoke in the furnace on the components that do not form soot.

The convenience is that the methods of their application are described in detail in the instructions for use, and they are divided into portion pieces. You can burn this product with packaging, which is also very convenient. The following products are popular:

There are quite a lot of money from Nagara on the market, so you can choose the best option for yourself.

Photo Gallery: Chemicals for Chimney Cleaning

Tablets "Cheerful Pediffle" will help get rid of the soot in the chimney is not worse than a vocational master of the pipeline. The blue mixture must be prepared independently of the three not the most common components. This remedy is recommended to be used only in closed combustion chambers naphthalene leaves after an unpleasant odor that will dislike for several Days

Video: Cleaning of chimney with special chemicals

Mechanical methods of cleaning

Mechanical methods are radical and are recommended for use at least twice a year. They are produced from the top of the pipe with various brushes or nozzles to the power tools, and the final purification is made from below from the hearth, a fireplace or furnace furnace.

Petroppers use special rams on a long cable

As preparatory measures before cleaning the thick (from two millimeters), the soot layer is combustion of potato cleaning or other means listed.

At the same time, the following materials and tools may be needed:

To clean the pipe cleaning, you need to use the roofing staircase, well fixed on the roof . Under any conditions need reliable safety rope.

Work at the height can be performed only with dry windy weather. Before the rise on the roof, it is impossible to take preparations that reduce the reaction, and even more so alcoholic beverages.

Before starting work, the furnace needs to be cooled. The heatpace is completely released from the immesorous residues of fuel and ash. The door of the furnace, pissed, and the covers of the cooking surface closely close and drip the wet rag to prevent the seas in the room. Schieber must be discovered completely to avoid re-clogging the channel of the creaked soot.

The chimney pipe must be released from the head, after which:

Video: Cleaning chimney from the side of the room

Russh with their own hands

If, by virtue of some reasons, there was no shrine at hand, it can be done "on the go" from a plastic bottle. To do this, it is necessary to cut into the case several tiers of strips up to 12-15 millimeters in such a way that they bent vertically. For the weighting device on the bottom you can pour sand.

Nice chimney cleaning can be made of plastic bottle

Stainless Steel Pipe Cleaning

The product feature is the high quality of the inner surface of the chimney. It does not allow a considerable amount of soot to settle on the walls. Naturally, this is true for a properly made chimney while compliance with the furnace firebox rules. If a steady nagar was formed - it is necessary to clean urgently. For this use such ways:

In order not to carry out additional "experiments", you need to stir the furnace only with a suitable fuel - well-leaked hardwood products. At the end of each furnace you need to add one aspen is calculated for the prevention.

Video: Cleaning of stainless steel pipe

Cleaning from stainless sandwich pipes

Cleaning the inner sandwich pipe with its proper operation will be needed very rarely. Nevertheless, if such a need arises, you can use the elongated thin pile of a slim pile. A flexible composite hose receives rotation from the electrician, cleaning is performed through a tee below. Thin peers are not damaged by the surface of the pipe, effectively cleaning the surface.

Such chimney is easy to dismantle and clean each pipe separately.

Special chimney cleaning

Some chimney cleaning situations require separate consideration.

How to clean the chimney pipe in a private house

Briefly above the entire process of clearing the chimney was already described. To this, you only need to add that with a strong clogging of the smoke channel, the first operation is the punching of Nagar with a nucleus without additional devices. Only after that brushes of various sizes and structures are sequentially used.

When performing work, it should be collected by creating safe conditions for work.

When working at height, it is necessary to be fastened by the safety cable

Video: How to clean the chimney in a private house

Clean the chimney in the bath

Chimney in the bath is usually designed easier. And most often it is made of stainless pipes, which requires a special relationship to its cleaning. In order not to reduce it, its main advantage is the high quality of the inner surface - it should be cleaned only with soft plastic or brushes made from natural materials. It is easiest to be managed with direct pipelines, and if you have a knee - we will remind that there must be no more than two, - perhaps you will have to dismantle the chimney if there are no special windows for cleaning when installing it.

In the rest, prophylactic techniques and cleaning are made in the same way.

Cleaning the chimney pipe from resin

Considering the composition of flue gases, you need to pay attention to the two main components - it is water vapor from fuel and a pair of difficult to burn creosote. Mixing and settled on the walls of the smoke channel, they form a resin, which is difficult to remove due to its viscosity and good adhesion to the surfaces of various species.

The only effective way to combat resten deposits is the prevention of its education. For this, various funds produced for this case are applied.

The drug Hansa effectively protects the walls of the chimney from the formation of resins

For example, the well-known composition of Hansa is a small crystalline substance. Part it turns wood in the resin and water vapor, and the second, reacting with the substance of the resin, contributes to its decomposition and combustion at temperatures in the furnace. The residues of the resin on the walls are converted into a fragile crystalline composition, sweeping inside the furnace.

This composition is placed inside the burning firebox. The frequency of use at the beginning of operation of the thermal unit is daily, then you can go to use once a week.

Cleaning curved chimney

The bends of the smoke channel are always a forced measure caused by the design features of the building. Nevertheless, their periodic cleaning is necessary. To do this, elements are provided in the design of the pipeline using which this operation can be performed easily and simply. These are special hatches, when opening which the possibility of accessing the direct portion of bending appears. The length of oblique sites is not recommended to do more than a meter. The number of bends on one pipe should not exceed two.

If there is no winding window on the leaning knee, then the chimney will have to disassemble

How to clear the chimney of the gas column

The reason for cleaning the chimney of the gas column is its banal clogging with a deterioration of thrust. Under the conditions of the urban apartment, this is the more dangerous that the threat arises for many people at the same time. One of the signs of deterioration of thrust is the "flaking" of the stamp of the column.

The process of cleaning the exhaust pipe from the gas unit is practically no different from such an operation with conventional smoke trumpets. Used the same RURSH. Recently, special design vacuum cleaners are often used, reliably cleaning the surface of the pipe and collect pollution products. In difficult cases, when the layers are not to be removed with a brush or vacuum cleaner, special chemicals are used to soften and eliminate them. Given that the use of prophylactic agents on the speaker pipe is impossible, it is necessary to make urgent measures when the signs of clogging are found.

It must be recognized that the success of the use of solid fuel furnace equipment in the largest degreely depends on the proper operation of aggregates and a thorough selection of fuel for it. In addition, it is necessary to regularly use prophylactic agents and know how to get rid of problems with the clogging of chimneys. Then the stoves and fireplaces will rejoice you for a long time in the house. I wish you success!

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How to clean the chimney pipe on their own and without special costs

In the old days, cleaning the chimney pipe was the usual, ordinary business for any owner. After all, the wood-burning furnace stood in every house and the subtleties of this process were transmitted from generation to generation. Now these skills are known only to a narrow circle of professionals whose services are quite expensive. Nevertheless, there is nothing particularly difficult in this lesson. In this article, I will talk about how with your own hands to clean up the chimney with the help of traditional devices, as well as the available grandfathers of cleaning recipes.

Indirect signs of chimney

It is not necessary to negotiate to clean the chimney, because overgrown with soot or at all the scored pipe can lead to the fact that at a certain point, the carbon monoxide that has neither color or smell will go to the premises. And this is no longer easy poisoning with headache, but a real mortal danger to you and your family.

• The first thing to pay attention to this traction. Anyone who regularly had to drown a stove or to sink the fireplace is known that in addition to the firebox itself in the furnaces there is a thought of providing air and damper on the pipe. This flap is needed to adjust the chimney cross section, without it the lion's share of heat will literally fly into the pipe.
  The position of the flap is usually determined by the eye, experimental. So if you need to open the damper to the oven for the ignition of the furnace, it means that the pipe cross section has become smaller and it must be cleaned;

• Another indirect sign of the need for such cleaning can act color of smoke. When firewood burns, smoke is usually light, almost white, and with high burning intensity, it can generally be transparent. If the dark smoke threw out of your pipe, and shoes of soot appeared on the roof and in the courtyard, it means that it is time to take a business;
• Determine the area of \u200b\u200bthe system can still be in blooming. Under normal conditions, the fire will be light yellow. If the intensity of the burning fell, and the flame began to be bright orange, it means that fuel burns not completely, therefore, the furnace should be cleaned.

Ways to clean the chimney

For thousands of years of the existence of furnace heating in the piggy bank, many different ways have gathered. Modern science remained aside and modern science, at the moment there are a number of compositions intended to solve this problem.

What offers us a modern market

The easiest, although not a very cheap method of cleaning fireplaces and furnaces is the use of a variety of chemical mixtures that can actively destroy the layers of soot in chimneys and furnaces:

• The domestic company "Smoke" produces a number of similar devices. Cleaner box is considered a serious preventive means of fighting soot. This is an ordinary cardboard box, with a combustible chemical inside, which must be put in the furnace and set fire.
  The whole process lasts about one and a half hours. After that, for 2 weeks, the soot will actively disappear and refer to the furnace or burn inside the channel, poured through the chimney;

• If the cardboard box did not help, there is a more radical tool, the so-called "smoke". It is a briquette of compressed chemicals, decorated under the usual way. Developers argue that this is one of the strongest means. In addition to practical benefits, the combustion of this is accompanied by interesting visual effects, it gives an original flame with a pronounced turquoise tint, children from such a cleaning will simply be delighted;

• In the line of goods of this well-known manufacturer, there are special cleaning pellets intended for the prevention of clogging of pellet heating boilers and furnaces. To maintain the normal operation of the boiler, the instruction instructs to mix ten kilogram package tools with ton conventional pellets. For cleaning ordinary furnaces with such pellets, it is necessary to burn in a kilogram of this chemical within 5 days;

• Approximately the same line of goods offers a concern, speaking under the common pipeline brand. This brand is the result of cooperating our manufacturers with a well-known German company "Hansa". If you believe advertising, their products are able to destroy not only the layers of soot, but also to react with the creosote, which is the basis of a dense and viscous substrate under the layer of this soot itself;

• Among Russians, the products of the Czech company comungones have already gained popularity. One package contains 5 bags of a mixture of 14g each. Applied at the rate of 1 bag for 1 kg of firewood.

The advantage of such a mixture is considered an acceptable price, as well as the ability to decompose soot even at relatively low temperatures. But the tool has a sharp smell, which can be used only in tightly closing furnaces, it does not fit for open fireplaces;

• In addition, one of the most affordable means is an anti-chamber chemical composition or PCC. The compound is effective, but quite aggressive, no more than 150g powder goes to 1 ton of fuel. It is also being implemented as well as comung, in paper bags that burn without printing.

All this powerful arsenal of modern chemistry, according to the recognition of the manufacturers themselves, is more designed to prevent the ingrowth of the chimney. If the thickness of the Nagar in your pipe does not exceed 20 mm, then the chemistry will cope with it. Large congestion can be removed only by mechanical way, that is, with their own hands.

Folk ways to purify pipes

Fortunately, not all grandfathers recipes were irretrievably lost in the piggy bank of folk wisdom, there are still many effective recommendations. Personally, I trust the folk methods more than aggressive chemistry:

• The simplest tool is the usual cook salt. It is poured on the burning coals and when evaporated, it gradually destroys the layer of soot. There are two opinions when it is necessary to pour salt. I was taught that salt you need to sprinkle glowing coals in a plump oven.
  At the same time, I met masters, who, on the contrary, claim that salt should be poured on a strong fever. Apparently the truth, as always in the middle. After all, whatever you, they do not pour, at the time of the maximum burning and the thrust will be the maximum, therefore, most of the composition will simply depart through the pipe;

• In parallel with salt, I use softening and destruction of the soot layer using potatoes, more precisely potato cleaning. They boil closer to the end of the furnace and the rules must completely ruin. Destruction is due to the absorption of starch in a loose layer of soot. The method is quite safe and does not require any costs;

• One of the widespread swirling in the past, the prevention of chimney was periodic to intimidate it with dry wood from aspen, alder or birch, and these firewood should be cleaned of the crust. During such a furnace, the flap must be periodically gradually covering and opening completely.
  As a result, when you cover the valve, the temperature rises, and when you open it completely, get the maximum thrust. Such "swings" lead to full burnout of layers. But for old stoves it is dangerous, because the walls of the chimney can crack;

• Light layers of soot can be destroyed by naphthalene couples. According to the experienced cleverrs, allegedly 3-4 days in a row to burn in the furnace on one tablet and for two weeks after that, all the seashes will be overlooking and the canal will be clean.
  But I have the safety of this method for doubt. First, naphthalene is quite harmful and smelling, and no matter how hard you try, part of the vapors in any case fall into the room. And secondly, with a large concentration, the pair of naphthalene is considered explosive;

• There is another radical method, it is cleaning chimney with boiling water. As a rule, it is used for serious stamps, as a temporary measure, until the hands reach the mechanical way. It's simple, three liters of boiling water poured into the pipe of a melted furnace, from steam impact, the cork simply knocks out, plus the structure of the entire layer is disturbed and part of the soot burns;
• If we speak exclusively about cleaning the furnaces, here you can use a mixture of crystals of copper sulfate (5 parts) with an associate (7 parts) and coal or coke powder (2 parts).
  This means is burned at the time of the highest temperature in the furnace. At 100 kg of fuel, 20 g powder. But note that for the fireplaces this agent is not suitable;

• I do not know how true it is, but they assured me that periodic burning in the furnace of aluminum cans, for example from under beer, perfectly cleans the chimney. Only thin aluminum should not melt, namely burn. You can achieve such an effect only if you top the furnace with good coal or coke, you do not receive such a temperature with firewood.

All folk cleaning methods are good only as prevention or preparation for general mechanical cleaning with their own hands. So you do not need to impose great hopes on them.

We clean the pipe yourself

Cleaning pipes and chimneys with chemical or granddaet methods, of course, the thing is good, but as I have already mentioned, you can only manually clean the order with large stamps. And the first thing is worth taking care of this tool.

What is needed for self cleaning pipe

The most common, one can say the classic pipeline tool is a wide rash. If to say honestly, then, despite the development of scientific and technological progress, as cleaned by the heroes and serbes, smoking pipes in private houses 100 years ago, so they are cleansed to this day.

Of course, the sake of fairness should be noted that in addition to metal rams, their plastic counterparts are now actively used. By the way, the chimneys made from stainless steel can be cleaned, only, plastic heroes, metal bristle you completely spoil the design, and there are such pipes of serious money.

The design of this device is extremely simple. A round core with a weight of 2 to 5 kg is fastened to the bristle with a horizontally oriented bristle, and from above, and on top, all this miracle of design thought is suspended on a cable or rope. Such brush can be round or square, but in any case, in size, they must be at least 20% wider than chimney.

The bottom core does not have to be round, it can be cone-shaped, oval, in general, how much, the main thing is that the weighting has been well centered, otherwise it can be jammed in the channel. That is why it is impossible to hang sports weights or dumbbells.

Another useful device is a scraper, in itself it resembles a conventional chisel, screwed to a long stick. Honestly to confess when I ran into the problem of cleaning the chimney in the country, and there was no special fixtures at hand, I did it that way, screwed the wire joinery to a long six, in my case to bamboo rod.

A complete set for high-quality chimney cleaners consists of three main devices. I already told about Brush with the kernel. In addition to him, it is useful to you approximately the same rash, only fixed on an elastic metal or fiberglass cable. In the same device, only the canalization pipes make their way with another nozzle.

The fact is that the direct chimney, that is, coming from the heat chamber vertically up, it is rare. Usually, the so-called "rude" is placed between the chamber and the vertical tube in the furnaces and fireplaces, it is necessary to increase heat transfer.

On this segment, the gases hesitated in the furnace move along the broken trajectory, simply speaking, snake. So in all the problem points of this snake, technological windows are made through which the chimney canal is cleaned. Flexible, but the elastic cable with the rash is just needed in order to clean the hard-to-reach spix of the chimney, from the bottom through the technological windows.

In modern private houses with a small floor, a furnace or fireplace pipe turns out quite long and with a strong blocking of one brush on the cable can be a little. In order for you to clean the chimney throughout the length, it will not be superfluous to purchase a set of extensive meter rods from fiberglass.

Of course, the factory specialized tool thing is comfortable. And although the price of this set is relatively available, our person highlights funds for such purchases last of all, and before it will definitely try to make something with your own hands.

Here you have from your own experience a couple of recipes for such homemakes. At first I tried to make a rash with a pile of millimeter steel wire. I figured the segments of the wire, slightly wider than the chimney and in the middle one ring wrapped them around the stud with a thread of 8 mm. Then, through the washers, all this shook nuts.

Of course, such a fixture is scrapeting so much. But steel wire in 1 mm thing is quite tough and such a test can withstand far from each brick tube. At home on a new chimney, this room has passed, but the old tube at the cottage almost crumbled from steel bristles. Therefore, I do not advise you to step on these rakes, it is better to take advantage of the next recipe.

Plastic brooms are now sold. So, I decided to make the second heshik from such a broom. Most of all I had to tinker with disassembly, because those who did it, apparently did not expect it that it would be disassembled.

Further everything is simple. The broomstick broke turned out to be soldered monolith. In the center of this monolith, I drilled the hole on the diameter of the metal stud, after which the wide washers were dressed on both sides and pulled them with nuts. Under the pressure of the washers, a durable synthetic pile has developed and accepted a horizontal position.

The cargo was paid from lead. Made a clay shape, put into the center the stud with the ring at the end and poured the shape of a lead. On both sides sold the rings on both sides. And all these segments joined the Karabins.

One of my familiar "won up" from the network of the marshik manufacturing scheme from plastic bottles. There, two bottles need to trim the bottom and, not reaching the neck, along, cut the walls of bottles with petals. Then, towards each other, so that the necks "watched" in different directions these two segments are planted on the heel and tighten with bolts.

All this was beautiful, cheap and attractive until this rash was manufactured, but when they tried to clean the tight nagar, it turned out that there were not many sense from this device. Such "Ershik" is too weak to scrape thoughts.

There is one more scheme of homemade brush. It will work well, but to tinker with his creation will have to. As a bristle, there is a thick steel rope disassembled on wires.

It is difficult to disassemble the rope itself. Such things are tied with special machines and on disassembly, it can take a lot of time. It is necessary to work slowly, in thick mittens, otherwise you shake my fingers. The threads are touched there well, so that to disassemble bare hands, it is unlikely to work out, it is better to operate with pliers.

When the rope is disassembled, a nut is screwed to a steel heel with a carvings, a wide metal washer is worn on it, on top of which the same washer only is put on thick, dense rubber.

The wire is laid out from the center in a circle, after which, on top it is put on another rubber gasket with a wide iron washer. It is completed by tightening these two washers on both sides.

Chimney cleaning technique

First of all, remember, all work at altitude belongs to dangerous. Believe me, it is only from the bottom it seems that there is nothing terrible on the roof of a two-story house, in fact the fall can lead to serious consequences, right up to death.

The first thing you need to take care is insurance than it will be reliable, the better. In addition, the pipes are customary to be cleaned into the windless dry weather. Did you wear a tight jumpsuit and gloves, decide for yourself, but the respirator and glasses will not be superfluous.

Before starting work, clean the furnace first. In general, I, before climbing the roof, during the week "Chairing" the pipe with folk methods. Typically, potato cleaning and cooking salts are enough.

Immediately, before starting the active cleaning, the doors, stood and the technological windows of the furnace should be closed and preferably dried with a damp cloth. Fireplace opening just walked a dense, wet cloth.

Before you run into the trunk of the rash with a gury or scraper, make sure that there is nothing except so there is nothing. If the oven did not have three weeks, then in the chimney can reserved the nests of the bird or settle the volatile mice. In addition, old brick pipes can be made from the inside, and the shift brick is better to immediately notice and try to fix it, rather than twist it with the brush and drop down.

Immediately I warn you, cleaning the chimney work is hard and sweat will have to be pretty. First, lower one kernel on the rope for the entire depth of the pipe, without a rash. Make sure it goes freely and does not cling to anything. After that, it is possible to fasten the brush and returning forward movies, slowly down, slowly cleaned the chimney.

If the kernel does not pass, then you need to act as a scraper. In general, it is believed that the diameter of the nucleus should be at least 2/3 of the dimensions of the pipe in the transverse cut.

Of course, the rash can be fastened to a set long bar. But if with the kernel you will spend the effort just to raise it up, it will go to it myself, under the weight of the core, then in the case of the energy rod, you will have to spend 2 times more.

All of the soot you read naturally will fall on the bottom. Therefore, do not wait until the pipe is filled with garbage. Periodically, you need to sink from the roof and clean the soot through the technological window.

When you finish with the pipe, proceed to cleans the flexible cable with the rash at the end, "rude". The latter is cleaned with the furnace and pissed, despite the fact that you first cleaned them, by this moment they will again be dirty.

Prevention blocks

Cleaning the chimney pipes will be needed much less frequently, if you stick to the elementary rules of operation of furnaces and fireplaces. First of all, forget about burning raw wood, especially coniferous rocks. In coniferous trees, a large amount of resins contains a large number of resins.

These resins dissolved in water vapors belong to heavy compounds, so they will immediately settle on the walls of the chimney, forming a dense, poorly scrupted flare. At the same time, dry wood, even coniferous breeds, a big danger for furnaces and fireplaces does not represent.

Another problem of modern furnaces is to dispose of garbage in the furnace. Old rags and paper of course big danger do not imagine, but synthetics and plastic bottles, sooner or later can lead to the fact that you will have completely shifted your oven. And this is not yet talking about those harmful carcinogens that will literally irrigate you and your family in the yard.

The table below contains some regulations for the operation of furnace equipment.

Name of the event and type of equipment	Frequency of preventive work
Checking furnace structures and equipment for them	Immediately after commissioning. As well as after any preventive activities
Checking furnace structures, boilers and fireplaces working for the season	Once before the start of the heating season
Checking chimneys in gas and solid fuel furnaces and boilers	Within 2 years after commissioning, it is checked at least 2 times a year, then the frequency of checks can be reduced
Inspection of brick pipes, regardless of the type of fuel and system design	Visual inspection 1 time in 3 months
Inspection of smooth-beamed metal, heat-resistant concrete, asbated, as well as ceramic chimneys	1 time per year
Heating or heating and cooking furnaces, as well as solid fuel boilers	Checked 3 times a year. Before starting and after the end of the heating season, as well as in the middle of the season at the discretion of the owners

Naturally, the above-mentioned standards are valid for regular operation of furnaces, boilers and fireplaces. With periodic exploitation, let's say at the cottage, the nests of birds and corks from false foliage represent a greater danger to the chimney.

Output

As you can see, although the self-cleaning of the chimney pipe is physically and rather severe, but in technical terms it does not represent much difficulty. True, you should not forget that regular prevention can significantly reduce the frequency of cleaning with their own hands.

July 30, 2016.

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