How Best Sweep work to maximise your safety
Winter Is Coming So with Game of Thrones and the white walkers coming back its getting time to think about your stove and fire. As December approaches the only thing that is red hot is our telephone. We are currently taking numerous calls a day plus all the web based enquiries. These are quickly filling[…]
What to expect during 2019-20 Best Sweep Chimney Sweeps has thousands of established customers throughout Bristol, North Somerset and beyond. In order to keep you, and ourselves, safe during this period of threat from the virus we have developed a number approaches. Please do have a look to help put your mind at rest. You[…]
So with Game of Thrones and the white walkers coming back its getting time to think about your stove and fire. As September approaches the only thing that is red hot is our telephone. We are currently taking 6 or more calls a day plus all the web based enquiries. These are quickly filling the[…]
It’s now mid April and we are starting to get calls from people about birds, mainly jackdaws, starting to nest in chimney pots and can we come and remove them. In short we cant, nor can anyone else. Once certain birds start nesting then a nest, eggs or birds cannot be killed, damaged or destroyed.[…]
A single pot chimney stack can let gallons of water into your house each year. The rain soaks into the old mortar joints, porous bricks and the lining of the chimney, it usually runs down the inside of a chimney for 2 or 3 meters unless the flue is dead straight. If it is, you[…]
Many people don’t realise that stainless steel flexible liners are not a permanent fix, they have a limited lifespan. I need to qualify that statement with the fact that you can now purchase flexible liners that do have a lifetime guarantee (If you follow the terms and conditions) Click HERE for a good example. Most[…]
A sure way of making a chimney unsafe to use and unsafe to install a stove liner is to tar it up. Incomplete combustion of wood creates tar (creosote) which coats the walls of a chimney leading to a serious risk of a chimney fire, wet tar soaking into the fabric of the building, creating[…]
A build up of soot and/or tar, infrequent sweeping, burning unseasoned timber or slumbering your stove (particularly trying to keep it going overnight) can lead to a chimney fire within the flexible liner of your stove. The picture above shows the typical evidence of at least one chimney fire in a liner. Sometimes you can[…]
Installing a stove, liner and associated parts is not brain surgery. All parts are freely available, specific training is provided on ‘how to do it’ and the government has provided free online guidance on what standards need to be met. It is called Approved Document J. Given that parts, training and guidance is available it[…]
This shows the value of inspecting a flue liner before you sweep. Here the liner has started to unravel where it enters the connector to the stove pipe. It had been power swept for example if it probable that it would have tangled and been damaged beyond repair. Surprisingly CCTV equipment isn’t mandatory kit for[…]