So far so good after two uses. Dunno how strong it will stay but the connectors look to be ok. The 'plastic' 'threads' look strong and well mounted to the head. I am SURPRISED at how well they have been with the sharp screws holding the flue pipe sections together....right. That they haven't shredded the plastic to bits. I run this nearly 15 feet straight up, not at or through any angles. Don't do it! In the short 'directions' it shows how much the sections will bend which is about 20 degrees or so.....NOT 45 as in elbows. Worth the price as to have a pro do it here in Montana runs $300. (By the way, tape a plastic sheet over the opening and use a FIREPROOF shop vac running while you do the work. You WILL regret it if you don't guys/gals). Trust me.

This worked very well. Strong and sturdy. Saved some $ by getting this and taking care of it myself.

My husband loves this product! Straightforward operation and directions, great packaging and a product that really works like advertised! It was so easy to use and will be used monthly for safety. If you're reading this, go ahead and buy it, I don't think you'll be disappointed, we certainly weren't.

I was skeptical of paying this much. However this tool works great. Very sturdy. Comes with attachment so it will fit in almost any drill. I used my driver and worked fine. Easy to pack up for next years use. Definitely a great option if you don't wanna pay someone a large sum of money to do it for you.

I just saved myself more than $500! Between our primary residence and our place at the beach, we have three wood-burning appliances. Our residence has an old wood stove in a partially-finished basement and a two year old wood-burning fireplace insert upstairs. The beach house that was my father's house has a wood stove. I was pretty sure that my dad had that chimney cleaned fairly regularly, and he didn't burn it overmuch anyway, but we weren't 100% comfortable starting to use the stove again without being sure. The wood stove in my basement is served by a 10" square un- lined masonry flue, and I've used it very much over the last fifteen years. Two summers ago I bought a beautiful Vermont Castings fireplace insert, and when I installed it I used the required 6" flexible stainless steel liner in the flue, which is about 25'. We use this insert basically every day, all day, from mid November through late March, and then some.

My wife being the cautious type, in things like this anyway, was all freaked out about chimney fires and what-ifs and such so she had gone ahead and booked chimney sweep service for all three places. The one at the beach was going to be $245 and it was going to be roughly the same per flue for our home.

As a dedicated do it yourself-er, I was thrilled to learn of this type of cleaning kit and to read the overwhelmingly positive reviews. They weren't wrong.

The flexible fiberglass rods are probably a full half inch, or 15mm in diameter and have very securely pressed in male/ female fittings with a spring loaded ball/ pin to effect coupling. The brush is similarly retained, and has twenty four strands of very heavy twisted-style string trimmer line secured in bunches of four. There is a male-end adapter which when chucked into your drill, allows you to easily add rods as you work your way up, from the bottom which is a huge improvement over top-down methods.

The kit also thoughtfully includes a pair of rubberized gloves and a large plastic sheet for use as a tarp. I opted to use different gloves, however, as the rubberized palms of the supplied gloves seemed inclined to want to "seize up" on the rapidly spinning fiberglass rod.

It took me less than 1/2 hour to thoroughly clean each flue. Care must be taken to contain the sooty ash and flakes that are dislodged, and you may see the suggestion of taping a plastic bag securely around the inner flue and working the spinning rod through a hole poked in the end of the bag, which I tried in my basement. I probably used too flimsy a bag (tall trash an liner) and found that the bag wanted to "grab on" to the spinning rod and bunch up and generally foul up the whole thing. My solution was to cut a cardboard disk and tape it to the flue, running the rod through a hole cut in the disk. That worked quite well.

I did not deduct a star from my review for my own mistake, one that actually resulted in a broken rod. The flue for my wood stove is about sixteen inches back in the masonry wall from the exposed end. That is, I had to insert the rods way back into the wall before they reached the vertical, actual flue. ( I accessed it via a clean-out a few feet below the wood stove thimble). As I neared the top of the flue and with the last rod attached, I must have run the thing too long without pushing or pulling and the fiberglass rod wore through and broke where it made that 90 degree upwards turn. I think that the rough masonry corner probably was too sharp for me to keep spinning in one place. It was no big deal to reach in and pull the remaining rods back down.

I can't recommend this thing highly enough.