Do you do your own? Like loads of things, it looks dead easy, until is isn't of course and you end up with a room full of soot .............
The sweep reckoned he used a 2 grand vaccuum cleaner blah blah blah, smoke tested the chimney and gave it a certificate, so I suppose £35 isn't bad at all for an hour or so of his time.
Allways do my own mate, clear the mantlepiece, get some old bedsheets, (or the new ones if your a dirty f****r), put the end of the sheets up on the mantlepiece, a couple of heavy brass dog ornaments on top to hold it down, and ram it in, up and down, back and f