I had never used a drill-powered sweep before, but I had heard excellent things about the Sooteater product. This seems to be an exacting copy of that design. The string is twisted-style weedwhacker line, made from a soft poly material. Using a multi-speed drill and gentle touch on the throttle to keep the speed LOW (this same stuff will slice small trees at 8000 RPM, and I can't imagine either my chimney liner or this shaft would take the full 2000 RPM my drill can throw, so I tried to keep it well under 200 RPM), I got great results. The section of the liner I was able to inspect visually looked quite clean after a few passes. My chimney was cleaned to my satisfaction with minimal time and effort. The rods appear to be some kind of fiber-reinforced plastic and are very flexible, in my installation the Rutland brand rods were unable to bend sufficiently to gain access, but these had no problems at all. The hardware seems solid and a convenient little tool for operating the spring detents in included.

Overall, this seems like a winner for *MAINTAINING* a clean chimney from the bottom. This product does not seem like it would be effective at cleaning a severely creosote-fouled chimney, the rods are much too flexible to exert the force that is required, in my experience.

This chimney cleaning brush worked very well to clean the chimney pipe on my outdoor wood furnace. It only took a few minutes to have it ready for next heating season. I wish they made the drill adapter compatible with impact drivers also.

Great idea to keep off the roof. I had to get on the roof to retrieve 2 sections and the cleaner. It did a good job cleaning, easy to assemble and feed into chimney. My guess is when I pushed the last couple of sections I didn't realize I had exited the chimney. So the wall of liner must of hit the push connector and sent two sections onto the roof. So it didn't help in keeping me off the roof.

Can clean my chimney without climbing on the roof. Works as advertised!

I just like it.