It sure beats climbing up on the roof to use a conventional brush. As you can see in the photos there are air tubes in my stove making access a little more difficult but it stuffed up there pretty good. I managed to break one of the poles most likely my fault, not being careful. Order more poles than you need just in case you break one too.It has been in the -20s here so I have been running my stove nice and hot intermittently during the day which makes a big difference in the amount of build up in the chimney pipe. My chimney is about 12 feet and I burn fir because that is all we have here. This is about two months worth that I cleaned out. Works for me. :)