ACS Anti-Creo-Soot Liquid (32 oz.)

It works well,will reorder it again

Let me start off by saying, I don't think I've ever written an Amazon review. However, this product really surprised me and worked so well that I want to share my experience to hopefully help and save someone else money. I am incredibly pleased by this spray and highly recommend to anyone who burns firewood. I had a "third-degree" creosote problem where the creosote was not sweep able - it was thin tar like layer (first picture). I figured I was going to have to get professionals to take care of it, but decided to give this product a try. Following the instructions, I sprayed this product on almost every fire I had from January 2023- March 2023. I used the entire spray bottle in this time period. When I checked my chimney in the Spring, I couldn't believe how well this stuff worked. It caused the creosote to harden and start to crumble off of the terracotta. I can't tell you how soon it started to work, but my build up was pretty bad so I assume it took at least 20-30 fires to get it to a sweepable condition. I finally got around to sweeping it this October 2023 (the chimney sat all summer unused and unswept). It swept pretty darn well for the condition it was in last January. It's not perfect, there is still some areas of a creosote coating at the top ~8' of my chimney, which is what the 2nd picture shows. I am going to get a second bottle of this and will continue to spray on every fire and try to sweep in a month after burning fires. Even once I get my chimney completely clean, I most certainly plan to continue to use this spray as a preventative. I can't recommend this stuff enough. I think it will really help keeping the chimney clean and safe.

We have a wood-burning fireplace that heats the house and we burn through a lot of wood in the winter. And Wisconsin winters are no joke! We were about 6 weeks into winter when we started noticing a lot of smoke pouring into the house every time we would open the glass fireplace door to put more wood in. After our carbon monoxide detector went off at 1 in the morning and a nice chat with our local firemen (thank you for your service!), we determined the cause of the issue was due to a creosol buildup in our chimney causing all sorts of dangerous gases to escape into the house. They advised we needed to get a fireplace inspection and hopefully the simple solution was the chimney needed a good sweep! Oh, and it did! We apparently weren't getting a good hot burn to help reduce creosol buildup and it might have been because our wood wasn't seasoned enough. Enter the Anti-Creo-Soot Liquid. A couple sprays from this bad boy every time we have a fire, and our fireplace glass is finally clear so we can SEE the fire burning. I'm amazed how this has actually helped reduce the creosol bulidup. I'm also very interested to hear from the fireplace technician during our next inspection if he notices a difference. I'm told you should always be using good, dry wood in your fireplace, BUT this will help reduce creosol buildup as a general maintenance or if you aren't using quality wood. I've only been using it for half the season, but I'm already impressed by what I'm seeing. It's definitely something I want to keep on hand. I bought 2 bottles and would recommend this product to anyone who has a fireplace.

My father has seen incredible results with this product and I bought it from his recommendation. First use I lost more dripping from the sprayer than actually spraying into the fire box. Going to try a different sprayer. Update: After a few uses the sprayer isn’t as leaky as it was the first use. Still a few drops. I will continue to use the provided sprayer. I’m also spraying before the fire is too hot to be close enough to hold the sprayer inside the fire box so drops fall in the firebox and not the floor.

It really works!