Cre-Away Creosote Modifier, Case of 6

When I took over the maintenance of the chimney at my house, years of sub-par cleaning had allowed a 1/2" or more layer of glazed creasote to build up in the upper half. Worse, a shelf had formed in the chimney right at the roofline that would close off in less than a month during the heating season and cause smoke to back up into the house! None of the local stove shops really had any helpful advice, so I took to the internets and found this stuff.The good news is that it does work. It does however take time. I've been applying it liberally every time I clean the chimney. For the last two years this has been nearly monthly during the winter, as I have had to break out the shelf I mentioned earlier. It works by converting the glass-like creasote into a pumice-like creasote that is easy to clean out.Note that it does not clean the chimney on it's own. You will have to climb up there and knock the converted creasote out. And one other thing to keep in mind is that as the creasote changes form, it does expand. This does cause the chimney to plug faster than it probably would untreated. But if you're facing a dangerously glazed chimney, this stuff, and a lot of elbow grease, will get it clean and safe again.

Our efficient fireplace is kept burning all Winter. This Creosote spray powder really does the job. I don't use the applicator bottle as it is a poor design. Instead I dump powder into a hand pump type rose sprayer that is easier to use. You can hear the creosote flaking off and falling down the chimney from its tar like state. I still inspect the chimney every year from the roof and run the wire brush down just to make sure and lower a flashlight down the chimney for a closer inspection. I remove the chimney cap and usually burn it out on the ground with newspaper just to get rid of the tar like buildup, as this is the coldest part of the chimney where creosote condenses. (non burned hydrocarbons) I usually use about three bottles per heating season. Those throw on the fire containers are cheap and don't work.

I was a bit skeptical when I made this purchase but I read reviews online and decided to take the leap. Our flu is approx. 12" and 20 ft high. We have run brushes up and down for the past 20 years but had developed a serious glazing that no amount of brushing would remove. We purchased this product the middle of November and now we are 3 months into usage. We use the fireplace as supplemental heat for much of the winter on our 2,300 sq. ft house. We have a Kozyheat insert that has a large metal plate at the top of the box. We added a plastic tube ((12") to the end of the tube so that, once the fire is nice and hot, we can thread it above the plate and get the product up the flue. We are having some success. The bottom 3rd of the flue is now clean down to the tile. It is difficult to get the product all the way to the top, 20 ft up, so we are now applying from the top. We will continue this methodology and see what happens. The product is excellent. The application not so easy. If you have a 1 story chimney, I think it would be clean as a whistle.

I drilled a small hole in my vent stack by the wall and squeeze in (about 5). Similar to using tomato dust. Built a small fire and it gets carried up chimney. Really helps with creosote, including glazed. Not a quick fix, may take a couple months

This is cheaper by the case. I used it this last season to gradually remove the glaze I have in my chimney. It is not a miracle cure but does work. I use it every 2 weeks to clean out the pipes from the wood stove to the flue and into the chimney.

The product is as advertised, prepared my chimney for the chimney sweep, after I had 3rd stage creosote in it. After a week of nightly fires, the product converted the creosote to a stage where the sweep could use his normal brushes to clean the chimney, and prepare my chimney to a safe situation for another season of fires.

I bought this cre-away from another vendor but I am so disgusted with it I thought I should warn others. First of all the plastic container is just junky, but that aside the "nozzle" that the "dust" flows through is so poorly connected to the rest of the container that it pops out when I squeeze the canister. After making a mess on top of my beautiful restored wood cook stove because of the nozzle flying out of the container and dumping the floury substance all over my stove top and having to hold the nozzle on while squeezing I got some to spray out into my chimney. This stuff pretty much just lays where it lands. I believe it's supposed to spray out as "dust" but it just ends up in clumps at the base of the chimney. So in short i'm very unimpressed and wont be wasting my money on this again.

Product does a fantastic job removing creosote. We have a wood fireplace and masonry chimney with a metal liner above the smoke chamber. The whole of the smoke chamber and the lower part of the metal flue liner was coated in glaze creosote. We sprayed this stuff all over, let it sit a day and then burned a fire as directed on the product indications. The stuff started to work in the days after that and now, two weeks later, the glaze creosote has catalyzed and is easily removable by brush or sweep. The stuff just crumbles outta there now!In terms of cons for this product, the stuff is very difficult to dispense and each tube ended up having 1/3 or so that could not be expelled from the container. The nature of the product is such that a fine powdery dusting will land anywhere that you spray this and we were unprepared for just how much and how far that dust would travel down and outside the firebox.That said, a little mess should be expected to come with the territory when dealing with grimy stuff like creosote and chimney cleaning.