Chimney Sweep?

[Guest dances]

get your hand in your pocket tight arse,you'l wish you had when your cleaning soot out of every nook an cranny

 

 

Ha!

 

Not tight mate, am skint these days, but I do think it'd be a nightmare if I get soot everywhere ...........

 

Just looked up the chimney, and seriously, can't imagine a child being able to get up there, wonder if this crazy wheaten would mind if I shoved him up there

 

why don't you put the wheatan at the bottom and drop a cat down the chimney. The cat will bounce up and down trying to avoid the jaws will clean it

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

This just got interesting ..........

 

According to this, it isn't my responsibilty to have the chimney swept, it is my landlords.

 

http://mastersweeps.co.uk/ChimneySweepingFactsForLandlords.aspx

 

I haven't copied and pasted it because it will take about 3 pages up!

 

That seems to say it is down to him to have it swept, I wonder if it is also his responsibility then to have the oil fired boiler serviced?

 

He did say when I moved in that both those things were down to me, but then couldn't tell me when either were last done or provide any documentation.

 

Not after getting into a dispute with my landlord, or trying to worm out of my responsiblities, but fair is fair, if it's his job then he should pay I reckon.

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[scothunter 12,609]

well its his property at the end of the day,and he is renting out a property thats liveable.so it should be safe.

[Bootsha 1,306]

Get on with it yourself ya big Jessy

 

 

 

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 for, all the way up to the makers label, then gently withdraw wiggling it back and for as you go, get the spare hoover from the shed to clear the dust, gently shovel the big lumps into a bin bag, hey ho, job done. Shake the sheets and whack them back on the bed, sorted

[Guest busterdog]

Get on with it yourself ya big Jessy

 

 

 

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.

 

Will he travel, £35 is nowt if your getting it done right big lad, if he'll travel send him my place after.

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

Get on with it yourself ya big Jessy

 

 

 

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.

 

Will he travel, £35 is nowt if your getting it done right big lad, if he'll travel send him my place after.

 

 

Doesn't like he goes as far as yours mate.

 

http://www.timchiminey.co.uk/

[scothunter 12,609]

is chimney his second name lol

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

Well that's a job I'll be doing myself next time!!!!

 

He was here about 35 minutes, showed me how to do it and reckoned it hadn't been done for a few years, so the landlord was talking bollocks when he said it gets done every 12 months, there was about 9 or 10 inches of soot in the fireplace after the brush had been up! A lot more than you'd expect it had been regularly cleaned.

 

I need it doing every 12 months to get the certificate for my insurance.

 

But I'll be having a crack at it in between.

 

Like most things, dead easy when you know how.

[dytkos 17,927]

You'll be black when you've done it.

 

How will you like that?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:laugh:

 

Cheers, D.

[jimmys shop 182]

Well that's a job I'll be doing myself next time!!!!

 

He was here about 35 minutes, showed me how to do it and reckoned it hadn't been done for a few years, so the landlord was talking bollocks when he said it gets done every 12 months, there was about 9 or 10 inches of soot in the fireplace after the brush had been up! A lot more than you'd expect it had been regularly cleaned.

 

I need it doing every 12 months to get the certificate for my insurance.

 

But I'll be having a crack at it in between.

 

Like most things, dead easy when you know how.

 

Its ok saying dead easy ,its getting the time to clean up if it go,s wrong ,and if by law you need a certificate ,pay the £35 and you know

that youve it done properly,.

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

Well that's a job I'll be doing myself next time!!!!

 

He was here about 35 minutes, showed me how to do it and reckoned it hadn't been done for a few years, so the landlord was talking bollocks when he said it gets done every 12 months, there was about 9 or 10 inches of soot in the fireplace after the brush had been up! A lot more than you'd expect it had been regularly cleaned.

 

I need it doing every 12 months to get the certificate for my insurance.

 

But I'll be having a crack at it in between.

 

Like most things, dead easy when you know how.

 

Its ok saying dead easy ,its getting the time to clean up if it go,s wrong ,and if by law you need a certificate ,pay the £35 and you know

that youve it done properly,.

 

 

You're right about having it done properly and getting the certificate.

 

I'll be getting it done once a year by a proper sweep and getting the certificate.

 

Have seen it recommended though that if you burn mainly wood then it should be done more often, and that's my plan, do it once myself halfway through the winter and get it done by a sweep in the summer, or the other way round.

 

I was worried about a chimney fire before I got it done, seen a few fire engines in the village recently, didn't really want hundreds of gallons of water in my front room!

 

[riohog 5,920]

Well that's a job I'll be doing myself next time!!!!

 

He was here about 35 minutes, showed me how to do it and reckoned it hadn't been done for a few years, so the landlord was talking bollocks when he said it gets done every 12 months, there was about 9 or 10 inches of soot in the fireplace after the brush had been up! A lot more than you'd expect it had been regularly cleaned.

 

I need it doing every 12 months to get the certificate for my insurance.

 

But I'll be having a crack at it in between.

 

Like most things, dead easy when you know how.

 

Its ok saying dead easy ,its getting the time to clean up if it go,s wrong ,and if by law you need a certificate ,pay the £35 and you know

that youve it done properly,.

 

 

You're right about having it done properly and getting the certificate.

 

I'll be getting it done once a year by a proper sweep and getting the certificate.

 

Have seen it recommended though that if you burn mainly wood then it should be done more often, and that's my plan, do it once myself halfway through the winter and get it done by a sweep in the summer, or the other way round.

 

I was worried about a chimney fire before I got it done, seen a few fire engines in the village recently, didn't really want hundreds of gallons of water in my front room!

 

burn as much hardwood as you can its mainly burning softwoods where you get a resin build up in the flue and that will start a flue fire

[Strong Stuff 2,171]

Well that's a job I'll be doing myself next time!!!!

 

He was here about 35 minutes, showed me how to do it and reckoned it hadn't been done for a few years, so the landlord was talking bollocks when he said it gets done every 12 months, there was about 9 or 10 inches of soot in the fireplace after the brush had been up! A lot more than you'd expect it had been regularly cleaned.

 

I need it doing every 12 months to get the certificate for my insurance.

 

But I'll be having a crack at it in between.

 

Like most things, dead easy when you know how.

 

Its ok saying dead easy ,its getting the time to clean up if it go,s wrong ,and if by law you need a certificate ,pay the £35 and you know

that youve it done properly,.

 

 

You're right about having it done properly and getting the certificate.

 

I'll be getting it done once a year by a proper sweep and getting the certificate.

 

Have seen it recommended though that if you burn mainly wood then it should be done more often, and that's my plan, do it once myself halfway through the winter and get it done by a sweep in the summer, or the other way round.

 

I was worried about a chimney fire before I got it done, seen a few fire engines in the village recently, didn't really want hundreds of gallons of water in my front room!

 

burn as much hardwood as you can its mainly burning softwoods where you get a resin build up in the flue and that will start a flue fire

 

 

Thanks for that, have got a store full of mostly Ash and Oak, but will be using the odd bit of soft if it turns up (or falls down!)

[forest of dean redneck 12,022]

my old house,the housing asssociation paid for a sweep every 12 months.

he had old sheet and henry hoover lol

 

once finished he would smear some fire cement round as well.

 

35 sounds reasonable.