Chimney Typhoon Power Sweeping Set Flexible Nylon Rods & Brush Head Rotary Drill Drive Chimney Kit Flue Cleaner Removes Soot 8 Metre Set – 26 Feet

This kit is excellent and makes sweeping your chimney a breeze! You get everything you need included in the kit, apart from a cordless drill of course. I also used a fireplace vacuum to clean up the soot. You get the cleaning head, rods, plastic sheet, adapter to connect your drill, tool to help remove the rods. A very useful carry case is also included. I started by dismantling the interior of my wood burner, following the manufacturers instructions. Then I removed the glass from the door, which allowed me to simply close the door on the supplied plastic sheet, and pass the rods through a slit cut in the plastic. This meant I didn't need to mask off the whole fire place. One tip is to place a plastic bag in the bottom of your fire place to help collect any soot or debris that falls. I then attached the cleaning head, which is a bit like that of a garden strimmer but with much longer strands, to one of the rods and pushed this into the chimney flue and fed the other end of the rod through the slit in the plastic sheet. I then attached more rods until I could see the head of the cleaner through the cowl at the top of my chimney. The fluorescent orange colour of the cleaning strands makes this simpler. The rods connect together with a secure and satisfying click. I then inserted the drill adapter into my cordless drill (a very basic 18v affair, you dont need a super spec drill for this), and attached it to the end of the rods. I set my drill to its lower speed setting, I don't think you need a high speed, and started to spin the cleaning head while slowly allowing the head to drop down the chimney. I spun the head until no more soot dropped, before removing one rod at a time. It was quite difficult to remove some of the rods, taking a fair bit of force to push the sprung loaded attachment down while also twisting the rods apart. This might be easier if you have an extra pair of hands to assist. The rod attachments might also get a bit looser/easier with more usage. The whole kit feels very well made, the only sign if usage I saw were some score marks on the rods where they rubbed against the flue entry in my wood burner. It was quite a tight bend, so the rods were pressing quite firmly against this plate. I think the price is very fair, especially if you think how much a professional chimney sweeper would charge each year. I'm delighted with this kit, and feel it should last for many years to come. I hope you find my review helpful.

The brush head arrived a little squashed but gentle heat on a window sill brought it back to shape The joints are strong and the drill fitting pretty good.

Well made, robust piece of kit. The rods have just the right amount of flex, and are easy to assemble (though less easy to disassemble). The wood burner flue on my bungalow is straight up and down, and the burner itself was easy to cover to catch the sweepings, so a straightforward and quick job. I sent a camera up the chimney after sweeping, and am very happy with the result.

I purchased this kit because it was the nearest I could get to a professional kit at an affordable lower price. The reviews were favourable compared to some of the lesser expensive kits that had shorter and thinner rods. My 125mm twin-wall stove flue is 7m tall and has 2 x 45degree bends, so I bought the 8m kit. I made a thin plywood plate for the stove opening and drilled a 20mm hole for the rods to go through and a 40mm hole for my vacuum hose, it was fixed into place with duct tape. Using the kit as per the enclosed instruction I connected it to my 20 year old cordless drill and set about cleaning the flue, stopping only between adding additional rods and removing them on return, it was so easy to use and didn’t falter throughout the 7m length of flue. The bucket full of soot it produced was contained within my stove and after carefully removing the plywood plate I was able to vacuum the soot out with minimal airborne dust. I highly rate this kit and saved money too on the cost of using a professional sweep.

Works great, seen some reviews about difficulty separating the rods after use but I found that a small screwdriver pushs the button easier. Came with plastic I cut and used to cover the opening so very clean. Loads of soot came down and chimney liner looks spotless.

Does the job.

I have nothing to do with this company but am about to give a glowing review. I bought this because in the past I have not been happy with the results of the local sweep. I used to wish he would pass the brush up and down twice and after he had gone the chimney brick was always still black with a load of soot on the shelf inside the mouth of the fireplace. On windy days dirt still came down. I put it down to just how things are with old chimneys and put up with it for years. I have two fireplaces and this year it was going to cost too much for what I thought was half a job. Notwithstanding the covid risk as well, so I thought I'd have a go myself. Well, the set up is a faff - allow a lot of time. You can see my set up here and the vacuum cleaner is running. Tape up as close to the mouth of the fireplace as you can - I went too wide and had some wall cleaning to do. Tape up right to the bottom - really well. The long handled teaspoon in my shot is critical for pressing the buttons to release the rods - you will need something for that. I read the instructions about 10 times and nervously got started with the drill on low speed and torque setting 1 - that didn't work so I gradually increased the torque setting until the brush turned. What I didn't want to do was to force the brush by using too high a torque. 5 was good on a drill with about 18 levels but you'll work it out. Keep it moving up and down all the time, I could hear the clumps of soot falling. I made one light scratch in the brick where I didn't keep the brush moving, fortunately not too bad. I also measured (after a fashion) to stop my rods from going up into the cowl. Well, check out the results! I am pleased as punch. Whole job took about two hours and I was black up to the elbows from sweeping that ledge clean. I increased to middle speed for a little while when I was brave enough. Advice - be sure to put the rods together with a firm click - in my case two of the rods have manufacturing burrs on them and don't fit together properly so Chimney typhoon, please get in touch, you owe me two rods please. I had enough for this job but was mildly annoyed by that. I had to take each rod out of the mouth of the drill for adding and removing them. Don't forget the teaspoon or a flat head driver. All in all, really good. I turfed out more soot than ever the sweep does. Ultimately, very satisfying.

Fast delivery does great job I’ll be quids in by second use