Hot take: the soot on the brickwork at the old mill in Lowell told me more than three years of sweep school

Reese Moore · 2026-10-25T03:20:05.727295+00:00

I was killing time on a job in Lowell last month and noticed the old mill brick has this thick even soot line about a foot off the ground on the north wall, which tells me those flues ran low and slow for decades, so has anyone else learned more from reading old buildings than from a manual?

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