# Chimney Sweep Firewood

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chimney-sweep-firewood/94780>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 22, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chimney-sweep-firewood/94780 "2001-11-22T17:33:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Janet\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Janet\_O](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janet_O)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chimney-sweep-firewood/94780/1 "2001-11-22T17:33:42Z")

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Has anybody used those chimney cleaning logs they advertise on TV? Do they actually work? Or will I just be sending my hard earned money up in smoke?

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chimney-sweep-firewood/94780/2 "2001-11-22T18:41:24Z")

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**Janet** - please check [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=95902), and you can see what we discussed about this before. I think the jury is still officially out, but overall it seems like bull.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chimney-sweep-firewood/94780/3 "2001-11-22T19:50:23Z")

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Since this has been discussed so recently, I’ll close this thread and direct any further comment to the previous thread, linked to above.

bibliophage  
moderator GQ