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Chudleigh Chimney Sweep Are You looking for a Chimney Sweep in Chudleigh?Why Choose ProSweep as your Chudleigh chimney sweep? We provide a friendly, professional, family run service. We are fully Insured. A Certificate of sweeping will be issued upon completion. We sweep traditionally with rods, brushes &

ProSweep- Devon’s best professional chimney sweeps are sweeping 6 days a week! Please feel free to contact ProSweep at any time, we are in the office most evening until 7.30 pm and we are also available to take chimney sweep bookings 6 days a week! Leave a

The  Valliant stove thermometer is a temperature indicator tool that at a glance will tell you if your stove is burning at an efficient temperature. What I love is the simplicity; it has a thermal expansion coil that affects the needle as your stove warms up which

This September we envisage the start of a very busy season with the previous long drawn out winter and a cold wet summer saw us all using our stoves and open fires for a much longer period than normal.Even sweeping in august I had some customers still

Wood stoves are notorious for producing vast quantities of creosotes along with water vapour .If you burn wet unseasoned logs, and if the appliance is fitted to a non-insulated flue, tar will quickly build up in the cold flue; you then have a sure-fire (pun intended) recipe

Why Should I have my Torquay Chimney swept in the summer? Most people wait until just before the heating season to have their chimney swept. Here are five great reasons to get the job done now. When the heating season is done, it’s only natural for you to

When is the best time to sweep my chimney? Now is the best time. There are a number of reasons for this amongst which are; As your fire has had fairly recent use the soot is still dry and can be removed better.  It is always a

Millions of people in rented accommodation will soon be safer as the Government moves to make sitting carbon monoxide (CO) alarms mandatory. From October private landlords will be breaking the law if they fail to install CO alarms in the properties they let out. This is an

Creosote         What is creosote A product of incomplete combustion: deposits of unburned, flammable tar vapors from wood smoke. Sometimes it is crusty or flaky in texture, but often sticky or hard. Creosote deposits are often hard to remove from chimneys, and pose a serious

Another dangerous install, a house fire waiting to happen. This customer had recently moved into a cottage that already had a stove fitted. Unfortunately not only was it too big for the opening but it had been installed incorrectly, there was no access for sweeping the unlined