The heating season is coming to an end, which means that the period of preparation for the next season begins.

One of the activities that needs to be done annually is to clean the chimney.

Today I will show you the simplest device for cleaning soot from a turbo. It is made from improvised materials - PET bottles, assembly time - up to 5 minutes.

At the end of the article, I will demonstrate all this technology in a video with a humorous multilingual voice acting :)

So let's get started...

To make this device you will need:

• PET bottle with a capacity of 1.5 or 2 liters - 2 pieces.
• Knife or scissors
• Tape or duct tape
• Rope

Cut off the bottom of the bottle. If you want - with a knife, if you want - with scissors. How convenient for anyone.

The main thing is to be careful. Don't get hurt!

Then cut off the top of the bottle. You need to cut in the place where the narrowing begins.

As a result, you should get such a “cylinder”.

This "cylinder" needs to be cut in half, as in the photo below.

On each of the resulting cylinders, it is necessary to make longitudinal slots, about 2 cm wide. The length of the slots depends on the diameter of your chimney. Selected individually.

I advise you not to cut 3 cm to the edge of the cylinder. It will be more reliable.

The first cylinder with slots, put on the whole bottle from the side of the neck. If it’s tight, unscrew the cork and squeeze the bottle lightly.

Place the slotted cylinder below the center of the bottle.

Using tape, secure the cylinder to the bottle. As you guessed, you need to fix the edge that you did not cut. The incised petals should move freely.

Now put on the second cylinder. But start it from the bottom.

Reduce the second cylinder to the first fixed one so that the petals lie on top of each other.

Now the petals need to be raised.

This is done very simply! Start the scissors under the lower petal and lift up several petals of both cylinders at once.

This operation is carried out along the entire diameter of the bottle. This Gif-animation shows this process. In the attached video (at the end of the article), this is described in more detail.

As a result, your bottle should have such a skirt ... like a ballerina has a tutu.

Do not forget to fix the second (lower) cylinder with tape.

Tie a long rope to the neck of the bottle (double the height from the top of the pipe to the nearest turn)

Let's start testing!!!

I didn't climb on the roof.

Firstly, there is a strong wind, secondly, the stove is working and cleaning the chimney (even as an example) is not yet in my plans, and thirdly, on the roof I will not be able to show you the operation of the device.

But! I have a piece of pipe, the same as on the roof. It will be more convenient to show on it.

My pipe diameter is 250mm. The device I made is better for 150mm or 200mm pipe.

The diameter of the outer contour of the petals should be slightly larger than the inner diameter of the pipe. Or at least equal to him.

To clean this pipe, I made such a device 15 years ago. The diameter of the outer line of the petals is much larger here. Petals confidently remove soot from the inner surface of the pipe.

Lower the device into the pipe until it reaches a horizontal surface. Then you lift it up.

It is enough to raise and lower this device 2-3 times to remove all the soot that covered the pipe from the inside.

After that, of course, you need to clean the chimney channel, where all this soot fell.

And now, the promised video with multilingual comic voice acting: