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My old steel brush snapped clean in two on a brick flue
It happened Tuesday on a job in a 1920s house in Cincinnati. I was working on a big square flue, the kind with rough mortar joints, and I felt the rod go slack. The whole head, a 12-inch steel wire brush I've had for maybe five years, just broke off at the neck and fell down the chimney. Had to fish it out with a magnet on a rope, which took another forty minutes. I think the constant twisting against those uneven bricks finally did it. I'm done with that brand, honestly. What's a tougher brush you guys trust for old, uneven masonry work?
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rowan_roberts491mo ago
That's a clean break, wow. When you say constant twisting, were you using a drill or just hand rods? I've seen drills eat brushes alive on old mortar if you're not super careful.
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margaret_kelly551mo ago
Yeah, rowan_roberts49 is right about tools eating things up. It's like anything, you push too hard and it snaps. Just a basic rule of not forcing stuff.
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the_ryan1mo ago
Is it really that big of a deal if a brush gets chewed up?
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