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Chimney Sweep in Marple
NACS registered chimney sweeping in Marple, Marple Bridge, Romiley and Compstall. Open fires, log burners, multi fuel stoves and coal burners swept properly, with no mess left behind and a certificate issued on the day. From £75.
Sweeping chimneys in Marple
Marple sits where Greater Manchester runs out and the Peak District starts, and the chimneys reflect that. Stone-built cottages and mill housing along the canal and through Marple Bridge and Compstall, Victorian and Edwardian property on the roads out of the centre, and post-war estate housing filling the gaps between.
What sets it apart from the suburbs closer in is how hard the appliances work. Out here a woodburner is often genuine heating rather than an evening luxury, and some properties are running it as their main source of warmth from October through to April. Those flues need sweeping twice a season, not once a year.
The other difference is the weather. Stacks on the higher ground towards Mellor and Strines take considerably more punishment than anything in south Manchester, and it shows in the pots and the flaunching.
What we find in Marple homes
What comes up most often on jobs round here.
- Hard-worked log burners — if the stove is your main heat source, once a year is not enough. Tar builds fast on logs that are not genuinely under 20% moisture
- Weathered stacks on exposed property — frost and driven rain do real damage up here. We check the stack with binoculars before we start
- Old stone-built flues, often unlined and running at odd angles — these want inspecting as carefully as they want sweeping
- Canal-side and mill cottages with narrow flues built for coal
- Stoves fitted into chimneys sized for an open fire — common on the post-war estates
No mess, and a certificate your insurer accepts
Sheets go down before we start and a high-powered HEPA filtered industrial vacuum runs throughout the job. We sweep traditionally or by power sweeping depending on what your flue actually needs.
Every job includes a free smoke draw test and a NACS Certificate of Chimney Sweeping — which matters, because most insurers will no longer pay out on chimney fire damage without one.
What we sweep
The same service wherever you are.
Nearby areas we cover
As well as Marple (SK6) we cover Marple Bridge, Romiley, Compstall, Mellor, High Lane and Woodley.
Book a chimney sweep in Marple
Have your postcode, the type of fire, and roughly when it was last swept to hand and we will give you a price and a slot.