Sweeping chimneys in Timperley
Timperley is about fifteen minutes from us in Wythenshawe, so it is one of the areas where we can usually offer a choice of times rather than whatever is left in the week.
It is also one of the most consistent areas we sweep. Timperley filled in largely between the wars, and street after street was built to a similar pattern — bay-fronted semis with a single flue to the front room, sometimes a second serving a back room, and a stack shared with next door. That consistency is genuinely useful: after enough of them you know roughly what you are going to find before the sheets go down.
Where it stops being predictable is what has been done to the fireplace since. A 1930s flue that has spent forty years behind a plasterboard panel, then had a stove or a reopened grate put back into it, is a different proposition to one that has been in continuous use. That is the majority of our Timperley work.