Chimney sweep near you —
Bridgend, Porthcawl and Pyle.
Swept, smoke tested and certificated from £65, by the same people who fit the stoves. Sheets down, vacuum on, no mess left behind. We also repoint chimney stacks and take down the ones past saving.
Prices, before anyone climbs on your roof.
A full sweep of the flue, plus the certificate your home insurer asks for.
The sweep, then a smoke test to prove the flue draws and doesn’t leak into the room.
Nests cleared from the flue or the pot. Spring and early summer is when we see most of these.
Stops it happening again, and keeps the rain out of the flue.
Raking out the old mortar and repointing the stack so it stops letting water in.
Taken down to roof level, roof made good and tiles matched in.
Some stacks can’t be reached safely off a ladder. Quoted before anything starts.
Stack work is always looked at first — you get the price before we start, and it doesn’t move afterwards.
When the mortar goes,
the water comes in.
A stack sits in the worst weather on the house with nothing sheltering it. Once the joints erode, rain gets into the brickwork and tracks down inside — and the damp patch that turns up on a bedroom ceiling or a chimney breast usually started up here years earlier.
Raked out, refilled and struck — course by course, bottom to top, then the flaunching recast around the pots.
- A damp patch on the chimney breast or the ceiling below it
- Sand and bits of mortar collecting in the gutter or on the flat roof
- Grass or a weed growing out of the stack
- Joints you can push a finger into, or gaps you can see from the ground
- A pot sitting crooked, or flaunching that’s cracked and lifting
Or take it down for good.
If the chimney is no longer used, a stack that needs repointing every few years is money going nowhere. It comes down to roof level, the roof is closed over with matching slate and the ridge runs through unbroken — and that’s one less thing on the house to go wrong.
Down course by course, then slated over and the ridge closed — no scar where it stood.
Across Bridgend and the coast.
Based in Kenfig Hill, so most of these are a few minutes away. If you’re just outside, ask anyway.
The ones we get asked most.
Once a year for most people. If you burn wood hard all winter, or you’re burning house coal, twice a year is safer — once before the season and once part way through.
Yes, every sweep comes with one. Home insurers ask for it after a chimney fire, and most landlord agreements need one each year. It’s emailed to you the same day.
No. Sheets go down, the fireplace is sealed and everything comes out through a vacuum. You shouldn’t be able to tell anyone’s been in.
About 45 minutes for a straightforward sweep. A smoke test adds another 15 or so.
Yes, and the certificate goes straight to whoever needs it for the file.
It can be. An unused flue still lets water and birds in, and a stack that’s never looked at is the one that ends up needing repointing or taking down. Worth a look either way.
Get it booked in.
Tell us the town and whether it’s an open fire or a stove, and we’ll give you a day.