For years I've watched my mom and step-dad clean their chimney. It was a big ordeal. Disassemble the chimney, he would climb on the roof and she would hold a garbage bag under the pipe to catch the soot. It would take most of the morning. I was expecting that I too would have to go through that when I started burning wood. But with this item I don't have to do any of that. I attach it to my drill and can clean it all from inside my home. Soot falls into stove, goes into the ash pan and then I can fire up my stove again. Takes me about 10 minutes and I'm done. I'm extremely happy with this product.