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I was brushing out a flue in a 1920s house in Tacoma and finally saw why my creosote logs were always so uneven.
The homeowner pointed out a weird draft pattern that made me check my brush angle, and I'd been holding the rods wrong for years, pushing too hard on the downstroke, lol.
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troy_ross2mo ago
Reminds me of a buddy who swore his chimney was haunted by a whistling ghost. Turned out he'd just installed the cap upside down for a decade.
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jake_hall882mo ago
Ghosts are just bad home maintenance with a story.
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juliawalker1mo ago
Did you ever see that thing about old coal furnaces and how they'd sometimes leave these weird mineral deposits inside the flue? I read somewhere that in houses from the 1910s and 20s, the creosote buildup can look totally different depending on what kind of fuel they were burning back then. Maybe some of that old residue is still there and mixing in with the modern creosote logs.
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