Dropped $340 on a rotary chimney brush setup and I'm done pretending manual rods are noble

Jessica Sanchez · 2026-09-23T02:10:03.260556+00:00

Last season I finally bought a rotary brush kit and a drill adapter after 9 jobs in a row where the old fiberglass rods kept hanging up on offset flues in these 1920s Cleveland houses. The kit ran me around $340 with two brush heads, and I was ready to feel like a sellout for using power. But on the first job, a heavy creosote glaze in a two story brick chimney, the rotary setup ate through it in 20 minutes when the manual setup had been taking me over an hour. My forearm stopped feeling like it was going to fall off, and I stopped dreading the callbacks. So why does half this trade still act like spinning a brush with a drill is cheating? Looking for honest takes from guys who made the switch and never looked back.

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