- I take great care in enclosing your fireplace and cover your flooring with drop sheets before I start the chimney sweep process. This keeps soot and grime from the flue contained, so it doesn’t spread throughout your home. My process means it is trapped within your wood heater to minimise mess and for easy collection.
- Start a detailed written inspection of your wood heater
- I will now remove the baffle plate or bricks from your wood heater. (The baffle plate is a plate in the top of your wood that reflects heat back into the wood heater).
- I now will clean the air intakes in your wood heater.
- I then get up on your roof and remove the cowl or (little hat) from your chimney.
- I then sweep your chimney flues.
- I will then give your cowl a brush to remove excess soot and creosote.
- I will then re-attach the cowl and will also replace the screws in the cowl.
- I will then come down off the roof and clean out all the ash and creosote from your wood heater which has been removed from chimney flue.
- I will then clean the glass in the door of your wood heater.
- I also vacuum around fireplace to ensure all soot is collected and your fireplace is left cleaner than I found it.
I will then start a small fire to ensure wood heater is working correctly.