Showerthought: My worst week ever was cleaning a 150-year-old flue in Savannah where the soot was like wet cement.
It took me three full days with a heavy-duty rotary whip and a gallon of creosote remover just to get it clear, and I'm still finding black grit in my truck a month later, so has anyone else dealt with a historic chimney that felt more like an archeological dig?