Appreciation post for the triple-brush poly system I switched to last month

Read a forum thread saying the triple-brush setups are overkill for residential chimneys, but after cleaning a 15-year-old creosote buildup in a house near Boulder last week, I think the extra reach alone is worth the weight, has anyone else found a specific job where a different tool just made more sense?

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fox.skyler6d ago

My buddy runs a crew up in Fort Collins and he borrowed my old single-brush setup for a job last spring... said it was a straight-up nightmare on a Victorian with these tight offset elbows that just ate up all the reach. He ended up having to disassemble half the stack just to get through it. Kept telling me after that the triple-brush would've saved him like three hours of cursing.

kelly.emma6d ago

Haha, "ate up all the reach" is exactly what my buddy in Denver said when he tried to snake a drain in an old building off Colfax. He had this cheap single brush head and the pipe had like three 45 degree turns in a row. He spent two hours just feeding it in and pulling it back out, cussing the whole time. Finally he just gave up and went back to the truck for the triple brush, and he said it was a totally different job after that.