Took me 7 hours to figure out a nest clog was sitting above the damper, not in the flue

Grace Coleman · 2026-09-29T08:00:03.356146+00:00

I kept running the rods up and hitting nothing, then finding zero draft on the smoke test, and I pulled the whole brush kit out twice thinking my links were bad. Turned out a squirrel had packed 4 inches of leaves and twine right on top of the damper plate where the camera could not see past the frame. Any of you carry a mirror on a stick for that spot, or do you just pull the damper every time now?

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