Chimney Cleaning brush stuck in the chimney?

The best way to get the brush out will be to take a pair of regular pliers (the kind you use to tighten and loosen things) and wire them tightly to the end of the rods you were using with the brush. Wire them with the jaws facing down and the handles pointing to the top of the chimney (only wire one handle, the other is free to open and close). Make sure they are wired on tight enough that they will not slip off over the end of the rod. You may even want to duct tape them on after you wire them on so they can not slip off. Go to the top of the chimney and push the pliers down past the brush. The handles will close as they pass the brush and then fall open again. Now pull the rods back up through the brush and they should hook the brush and pull it back up. This may take a few attempts but it is the easiest way to get the brush out with out calling a professional chimney sweep that owns some brush removal hooks. Good Luck!

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Most chimneys have a clean-out door at the base of the chimney. I would have said you could push the brush all the way down and get it out there. Since you don't think it will fit out the bottom, the only way out is up. You don't mention what the chimney is for: wood stove? If so, remove the stove pipe so you have access to the flue. With your remaining rods, push the brush down until you can grab it through the stove pipe hole. Then, reaching through the hole, either reattach the rod (you'll need a second person on the roof to help) or drop a rope down the chimney and tie it to the brush. Go back up on the roof and pull it out.

Now the only problem I see with this is how to push the brush down...you'll need to throw something like a towel down on top of it so the rod will have something to snag when you push. BTW, I was too cheap to buy the multi-piece rods. I use 10 ft lengths of plastic conduit. Where they join, I drilled a hole and insert a nail to keep them together. So if you don't have enough of your rods to push the brush down to where you can get it, buy a couple lengths of conduit.

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I've been thinking more about this. If you don't have access through a stove pipe opening as I suggested above, try snaking a rope by the brush. I would get a pole or conduit, tie a rope to it and feed it down.....all the way to the bottom. Then affix something to it to snag the brush from the underside. I would suggest a tightly wrapped bundle of rags. Just something that won't damage the liner tiles but is bulky enough to snag the brush when you pull up.

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If it is 8" and you could NOT get an 8" brush through it, it is SEVERELY clogged and, like it or not, you need it professonally cleaned. The other alternative is DON'T use whatever is connected to the chimney. Using a "chemical log" under the conditions you state COULD result in a chimney fire, which could result in a house fire, which could result in YOU NEEDING A NEW HOME!!!!

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It's time to get "cowboy" on the brush. From the bottom, throw a rope up and around the broom and then just yank that sucker down. That's only if there is room on the sides of the brush

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