A real chimney sweep doesn’t just clean the creosote and soot from the chimney, they also perform a video inspection for free to make sure the structural integrity of the flue isn’t failing and also makes sure your appliance is drafting correctly. A chimney sweep knows what to look for and recommends the proper fix. If it looks clean it still doesn’t mean it’s safe. There’s a lot of expansion and contraction in a chimney flue (tile or stainless) when it gets hot and cools down cracks can form in the tiles that can lead to tile collapse and also stainless steel liner separation and deterioration can happen. Most people don’t call a chimney sweep until it’s to late and they have a problem. Get a chimney sweep out to inspect and get your chimney swept clean once a year and if you can’t do that try to get it done at least once every 2 years, it might just protect your family and investments.

Thanks for the 2x4 idea for the heavier buildup Corey.

If there had been a fire, the roof would not look so new. It looks more like rust. Maybe try to burn your wood stove hotter so creosote won't build up. I heated my house for more than 20 years with a wood stove and never had a creosote build up.

@stickybons3319

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely rust from the metal paneling that is getting washed down the roof when it rains

The old fire places, wood stoves and such would build up creosote on the chimney and flue walls. The creosote often would catch fire and burn the whole house down many times....In the late 70's or early 80's building codes began mandating the use of metal fire place boxes and flues...….Our 1st house built in 1975 had a brick fireplace, our next house we bought in 1982ish had the metal box fireplace.....Wood stoves are seldom seen these days......However if you do buy such get a chimney sweep company to clean....

GOD DAMN!!!!!!!! This made me feel better about my little build up. Still gonna wire brush it out but your chimney looks like something the fire department would show as a severe warning

Wow! I watched your other video of AFTER you cleaned this out first. I'm amazed at the difference. Scary stuff. Thanks for sharing this.

what the hell where the previous owners burning in their stove, railroad ties?

@MS-nm2kt

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like tar

@bullofthewoods9374

2 жыл бұрын

@@MS-nm2kt or wet pine

Im a chimney sweep, and let me tell you right now. if you have a wood stove insert into your masonry chimney like that you should get it lined. it is expensive but let me tell you why it is important.. creosote builds up the most when you have a "cold fire". the regular masonry fireplaces dont do much in the way of heating your house or even the room.. because its getting sucked out with the smoke.. go figure.. that keeps the air in the flue moving rapidly and wont allow build up..

That staining is most likely a result of rust. This that staining can occur from a standard painted steel chimney cap, flashing, or old tv antenna. However if you believe you have had a chimney fire previously I highly suggest contacting a certified chimney professional in your area to perform a video inspection. There can be unseen damage to the clay flue liner of mortar joints between the tile sections that would pose a safety risk. Cleaning the chimney and a top down visual inspection is a good start, but after 15 yrs servicing chimneys I can't tell you how many times I've seen safety issues doing a video inspection that aren't visible during a regular visual check. Especially concerning is the fact that your chimney runs directly through the center of your home, and is surrounded by combustible material (framing, roofing, etc.) To all the homeowners out there, I would suggest hiring a professional for this job. In the Chicagoland area this service runs about 150.00 but the peace of mind is priceless. Not to mention should there be a chimney fire that causes damage to your home insurance may have a problem with the lack of professional maintenance. Just my 2 cents.

@nixonsweep2218

6 жыл бұрын

agreed!

That black stuff is actually red and the roof is red because the rain washes it down from the top of the chimney where it builds up. I know this because today I was helping my neighbor (a little elderly lady) with her clogged chimney and I got some on my hand and for a second thought I was bleeding but it turns out it's just runny creosote. When spread thin it's red but when it accumulates it darkens into what appears black.

Wow . I've bin burning wood for the last 10 years an only cleaned the chimney one time , I inspect the chimney every month an it's always clean . If you keep your fire hot it will stay clean longer

@nova31337

Жыл бұрын

That and only burn properly dry/seasoned wood. It's the moisture going up and then sticking to the sides that leads to that buildup.

@stephenpenney8185

Жыл бұрын

@@nova31337 yeah it definitely looks like someone didn't burn proper wood.

Corey, i have a closed off chimey that has a very clean clay liner, similar to yours...the liner that is...but the home has not used the chimney in years, In fact the previous owners or before them closed the chimney off and boxed it in the kitchen. Like a closet. So I have knocked it down and have 40 feet of space now to make a storage cupboard.

Previous home owner was a proper BUM! I have the same problem here, just came here to find a solution. It seems that I've got to scrap the s**t not.

That’s from the bricks being heated, getting wet, drip drip etc. We have the same prob. We always keep our chimney cleaned out. We also thought it was due to something “wrong” in the chimney. Our chimney sweeper told us it was from the old bricks.

Nice chimney video ! thx

Our f*cking landlord refuses to call a cleaner and I'm allways super nervous to start a large fire

@nixonsweep2218

7 жыл бұрын

You need to review your local landlord/tenant agreement laws and agreement. DO NOT start a fire until you've had your system professionally inspected!

So... This flue needs to be inspected by a chimney professional. The terra cotta clay tiles are easily damaged by a high temperature event and even if you don't "SEE" something there is likely damage to the lining. Since this is a chimney that is wrapped around by the house it is best to play it safe. A CSIA certified chimney professional will be able to put a camera into the flue to see what is really happening. I am a DIYer but... Don't play with fire.

It would be wise to have that chimney re-lined with a stainless steel liner. They come with insulation as well to keep the flue gases burning hot to help avoid something like this from happening again - a solid investment in any wood heat system!

Burn dry wood, make small hot fires. Don’t choke the firebox down when you have a fire going to try to make it last longer. All of these things contribute

@nixonsweep2218

6 жыл бұрын

yep!

it could be fire retardant. Some of the specialized fire foams they use stain everything that particular color of red. Where i live, there are actual mountainsides stained that color from the air drops during wildfires.

Lol.... that red stuff on the shingles is not from a chimney fire. That's from the metal flashing around the brick.

The former owner was probably burning soft wood material for a decade.

I just bought a home with a fireplace. I've never had one before, but I'm having it cleaned before I use it.

@jarls5890

4 жыл бұрын

If possible have a chimney sweep come round every year. There is a reason "chimney sweep" has been a major thing for hundreds of years...and still is (at least here in Europe).

Looks like the chimney of the house I bought a few months ago

That is unreal......looks to be the worst build up I've ever seen. Great video.....thanks for sharing :)

That is from using pine and not leaving it for a LONG time to season, also they are not running it hot enough using a flue temperature gauge,my chimney does not need sweeping as it only has a light ash on the inside with no goo or creosote,

@AReptileMan I haven't. But my father in law swears by them. He used a Vermont Castings Vigilant to heat his home for 20 years and never got up on the roof.

PS i did a gentlmans wood stove that was lined with an 8" liner... there was 3 inches of build up!!!!!!! leaving 2 inches if that for smoke to move through.. and it was smoking out the house.. that i was still surprised he had.. so don't think having a liner you are exempt from sweeps.. any insert or wood stove should be cleaned once a rear if you burn regularly.,

You should have done a video of the creosote burning to show how inflammable it is, could have put the removed material in a pile or on a BBQ to demonstrate.

@safeeasychimneysweep3119

7 жыл бұрын

JUST GET SAFENEASY CHIMNEY SWEEP,,,,,,,ALWAYS CLEEN BURNS LIKE NEW

@jimtomlinsom1279

7 жыл бұрын

Ian TheInventor when I cleaned out my chimney I burn the deposits in my stove, the didn't burn that we'll as I expected but I think once they are literally they burn hot.

How you're clean out it all out there with out breaking the chimney?

Were they using tar as a fire starter?

How many years does it take for that too happen because i hate to admit this but we have been using our woodstove for about 5 years without cleaning the chimney!

...Now with a wood stove or insert they are designed to choke the smoke and fire down so that it heats the house as efficiently as it can.. that makes the fire colder than one that can breathe freely and has a slower exhaust speed as well resulting in alot more stage 3 creosote build up like that in the video. most states require lined inserts to be up to code now a days anyway. food for thought i guess.

How long did it take you to clean that up???

This is why you should also not smoke

In Germany it is mandatory to get the chimney cleaned by professional chimney sweepers in regular intervals.

@nixonsweep2218

6 жыл бұрын

It should be that way everywhere! Cheers!

@SuperCyril2

6 жыл бұрын

Can easily be done by the homeowner. Not rocket science.

@markmathews5117

5 жыл бұрын

No it shouldn't because the government should not have there hands in everything.

@styler19721

5 жыл бұрын

@Vance dont you know that wiping back to front poses a risk to public health?

Damn, please use a reputable, certified Home Inspector to reveal this outright negligence by the previous homeowner.

You only have to clean a Chimney like that ONCE... Then install a Stainless Steel Liner... DONE... Next cleaning will be a BREEZE in fact the Kreosote will usually just DROP down on its own when the temperature changes, but it takes all of about 5 minutes once you are up on the Roof for a real cleaning with a BRUSH. Best investment I ever made, and you can sleep at night cuz No way you will ever have a Chimney fire.

@Idiotsincarshere

9 жыл бұрын

Just decided today to brush my chimney, myself, for the first time. Didnt want to pay a company $300.. Its been 2 years but there was almost no creosote. Small black dust is all. Some leaves/sticks in basement flue. Would you recommend I continue the every two year cleaned out?

@deasttn

9 жыл бұрын

Rob Lyons Sure, especially if you already have the equipment. The job isn't all that difficult. At the very least, you ought to inspect the flue periodically.

@Idiotsincarshere

9 жыл бұрын

thanks. we use the fireplace once a week max in the winter. thinking every other year is plenty to check the flue space in the basement. and chimney brushing maybe once every 5 years, with annual visual inspections? thanks.

@trekdog6877

7 жыл бұрын

More Protein

@deasttn

7 жыл бұрын

trek dog more fiber

My chimney looks nothing like this but I clean it anyway, every year, no matter what.

Who built that chimney? Someone from the Mayflower? It looks ancient!!!

wow , they sure let it get full , they must have forgot to clean it for a lifetime lol . i usually just let it burn itself out once a year before spring and then every two years or so clean all the burnt chit out of the clean out port . i have lived out here all my life and never had a problem with a chimney fire that got outta control , you can buy a special log that slow burns the smaller stuff of the chimney walls once you got the majority of it out .

@nixonsweep2218

6 жыл бұрын

Nice!

thats why you need a chimney sweper in the usa !!!!! that meens you have to get the svimney sweept BY LOW !. as here in Denmark regards at chimney sweper !

Somebody was burning a lot of green wood.

@nixonsweep2218

6 жыл бұрын

yep!

holy moly!!!

@Leukefilms

2 жыл бұрын

Did you ever see a coughing chimney? kzread.info/dash/bejne/pY2Vo5KGmsqXldY.html

holy crap!

If you're wood is properly seasoned you get very little creosote . This person was burning wood they shouldn't have been burning

i clean once a month. we have a wood burning furnace. i thought that my chim was bad enough once a month. never seen one that bad!

I see lots of this, out of site out of mind , but if you burn wood this happens, if you don,t clean then the fire happens too, B Safe Chimney Cleaning

that is the 2nd most creosote ive seen in a flue

wow

have you tried any of the creosote cleaning logs, like the ones sold at Home Depot?

@psmithphil

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard they cause the creosote to get sticky, but I only heard that. I'm using the brush to clean mine.

Man - so it's like you do not fire soot on time. - You must do it every year or twice. This is less temperature acting on bricks than like a whole chimney covered with tones of soot burns.

damn.. you need a very long vacuum hose now.. lol

@nixonsweep2218

6 жыл бұрын

hahah

That was totally homeowner neglect of a chimney.

Why don't people look up the chimney with a flashlight and inspect it before lighting a fire.

@ajilaamafarms9365

7 жыл бұрын

Chimney's are not a straight up thing, you can't just look up them. More so if you have a wood stove, that requires taking everything apart to look into it. But, YES always inspect your chimney or flue or hire a professional if you do not know how.... at least twice a year, once before fire season and at least once about halfway through. Even if it does not burn your house down, when a chimney fire starts lots of sparks/embers are released and can start forest fires.

It looks like that chimney was never cleaned at all!

@nixonsweep2218

7 жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised how quickly and otherwise clean chimney can amass that much creosote. Smoldering fires and moist, unseasoned wood can cause this amount of creosote in very little time!

hi.. thanks for sharing. fyi the stain on the roof is not a fire, its the metals burned off in the material burned in the chimney. We have a coal stove we run 24-7- once winter arrives and our roof has a similar stain and the house is only 10 years old... Our home is insulated 2X6 and its nice and tight. Why anyone runs a wood stove instead of a coal stove is a mystery to me.. we roast in this house with anthracite coal for less than $120 per winter month and it doesnt ever get shut off in winter. PS we clean the chimney each spring. I have never seen anything as horrible as what you show. ugh.

@BobMarley-hl3mw

10 жыл бұрын

Wow, your heating cost is our minimum monthly wage in South Africa.

@frankburns8871

10 жыл бұрын

Not all that mysterious. Wood is free for many who are willing and able to work for it. Some people even enjoy the activity. It's good exercise and it's the "great outdoors" and all that happy horseshit. Seriously, I love it. Plus, a coal fire does nothing aesthetically, while a good wood fire is worth more than its BTUs in "warmth." And, if you're environmentally uptight, wood is a renewable resource, unlike coal.

@cmdaniels1986

9 жыл бұрын

MsLibrazen because I have unlimited wood to heat with in exchange for Labor.

@Idiotsincarshere

9 жыл бұрын

Wow! We have oil heat and its about $2000 per year, mostly winter months so $300-400/month.

@Idiotsincarshere

8 жыл бұрын

***** get over yourself tree hugger! i cant wait to cook some burgers on my grill with extra charcoal, then open my windows and crank up the oil burner full blast and run around in my underwear sweating because oil is so cheap now

Good video I will share it. Thank you.

How bout a video showing the cleaning process. If a chimney is blocked, the whole house becomes smoked.

You bought a house without looking down the chimneys? Flatlander...

I hope you didn't pay a home inspector before buying your house..

Looks like the nasty chimney in the house I bought ! Probably wasn’t cleaned in 20 years and the guy was burning coal and wood in it ! It filled 3 5 gallon buckets of shit out of it

It’s all hype I’ve never had a chimney sweep for over 10 years. You have to burn hot at least or a few minutes each fire.

@akaredcrossbow

3 жыл бұрын

A real chimney sweep also performs a video inspection for free to make sure the structural integrity of the flue isn’t failing. If it looks clean it still doesn’t mean it’s safe. There’s a lot of expansion and contraction in a chimney flue (tile or stainless) when it gets hot and cools down. Most people don’t call a chimney sweep until they have a problem. Get a chimney sweep out to sweep and inspect once a year or at least once every 2 years, it might just protect your investments.

Soft wood cause

Start saving money by using a 2X4 instead of a chimney sweep brush and save 16 dollars ha

Were you able to clean the stain off your roof?

@michaelt1349

3 жыл бұрын

Only "cleaning" for those stained shingles is replacement!

Oh My God !! I'm sitting here wondering why my fireplace is not burning wood anymore. I've owned my home now for 12 years and just started using the fireplace about 3 years ago. I shovel it out, all the ash and such but I just got a cord of wood and nothing is burning it's dry as a bone but I just don't understand it. I'm assuming this could be my problem. Nothing will burn not even the kindling. oh Geez, it looks like more money I'm going to have to spend damn it why can't I ever catch a break, it's always something nothing can never go smoothly in my life LOL okay thank you

@bullofthewoods9374

2 жыл бұрын

not sure what your issue would be does the smoke go up the flue pretty good? if not thats your issue. if yuo dont have a good draft it want burn well, have someone check your flue and damper

@sherry866

2 жыл бұрын

@@bullofthewoods9374 that particular wood I bought wasn't seasoned, I got ripped that year. Found a new Wood guy and all has been Burning Beautiful since ! Thx

@bullofthewoods9374

2 жыл бұрын

@@sherry866 nice

The reason I am posting this is that i have a 1.1/2 story home @ 70 years young...and making room for an attic living space, where the chimeny ran into...so the chimney runs to the basement and i want to duct up the chimney area that will run into the storage/pantry space i am considering. Question, was the shopvac worthwhile in cleaning out the chimey? I have a 6 gallon shopvac...

@jarls5890

4 жыл бұрын

We have a 400+ year old house. Chimney still good! =)

@bullofthewoods9374

2 жыл бұрын

@@jarls5890 o your home is 400 yrs and have never been remodeled? is there another one near you so i can purchase. 1600s era home is a gem

@jarls5890

2 жыл бұрын

@@bullofthewoods9374 It is a summer house. Bathroom is "new" (there were no bathrooms back then). Windows are new. Floors are ancient (not a single spot that is level) Walls are also ancient - but have had many layers of new stucco'ish material. The walls are straw and clay (can see this some places where there are cracks in the stucco). Many unknowns about the house. We know it is at least 400 hundred years old as the city records go back 400 years...and the house is there. However there are no records past that.

@bullofthewoods9374

2 жыл бұрын

@@jarls5890 where are you located if you dont mind? i have seen homes in NC where i am from the 1700 era but not older than that and not that has a lot still original. some of the wood is and maybe some of the timbers in the frame but not much else is original. its amazing it lasted that long most stuff that old just dont last from the effects of mother nature

@jarls5890

2 жыл бұрын

@@bullofthewoods9374 Norway. But the house in question is in Salzburg, Austria.

Use a crowbar? I know it's late.

Why I never burn pine

@bunnywarren

6 жыл бұрын

Pine isn't a problem if it's properly seasoned. Unseasoned it's bad but when it's been left for a few years in the dry, it will burn quickly and very hot. Great if you want to get some heat into the stove before putting on other wood like ash. Western US they mainly burn pine/fir and don't have any problems because they know how to season and burn it. The problem is that it has become trendy to have a log burning stove and people don't know how to use them.

@bullofthewoods9374

2 жыл бұрын

@@bunnywarren correct

Let me show you why to have chimney inspector come out during the home inspection process, before you buy the home.........

Hello, We are starting a website dedicated to Chimney Fire and Fireplace Safety and would like to ask if we could use part of your video. We will of course say the Video is supplied by Corey Binford. Kind Regards Paul Ross

@nixonsweep2218

6 жыл бұрын

Hi there...I have similar content on my channel...let me know if you wish to use any footage for your website (which sounds like a great idea!) Cheers!

@paulR505

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind response, I will be in touch. I have a group that has been going for some time, we are consolidating all we doing into one place. please take a peek at our youtube group ubuyudo.com Thanks again Kind Regards Paul Ross

2x4's? really? #FacePalm

Please tell me you called a professional. This is really bad.

you should take the bark off any wood before burning im a chimney sweep and so far not seen one that bad

@dhall5634

5 жыл бұрын

Stop spreading b*******

@bullofthewoods9374

2 жыл бұрын

the bark is the best part to burn and it burns fast and hot

looks like your going to have a bad chimney fire has to be cleaned real good scrubed real good with a chiminy brush and inspect for cracks if you have cracks you can get a metal chiney liner

NO FIRE DUUUUH! DUMMY!!! IT IS SEEN WHEN CHIMNEY'S ARE NOT CLEANED REGULARLY!!

you need to call a professional you look and sound very very silly

@mackwood2164

7 жыл бұрын

...says the out-of-work chimney sweep.