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Chimney Sweep in Wythenshawe
NACS registered chimney sweeping across Wythenshawe, Northenden, Baguley and Sharston. This is where we are based — so it is a short run, and we can usually fit you in around whatever suits you. From £75.
Sweeping chimneys in Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe is home. We are based here, which means you are getting a local sweep rather than someone driving in from the other side of the county — and if something needs a second look, coming back is not a special trip.
The housing here is unlike anywhere else we cover. Wythenshawe was built from the 1920s onwards as a garden city, laid out at scale with wide verges and generous gardens, and most of it went up in a couple of decades to a handful of repeated designs. That makes the chimneys unusually consistent — single flues to the front room, often a second to a back room, and shared party-wall stacks along the terraces and semis.
What varies is what has happened since. A great many of those fireplaces were closed off once gas central heating arrived, and plenty have been opened back up in the last twenty years or had a stove fitted. A flue that has spent forty years behind a plasterboard panel is a different proposition to one in continuous use.
What we find in Wythenshawe homes
What comes up most often on jobs round here.
- Reopened interwar fireplaces — the most common job here by some distance. Sweep and draw test before first lighting, not after the room fills with smoke
- Party-wall stacks shared with next door — standard across the estates. Where flues run close together, an unused one next door is still worth knowing about
- Stoves fitted into flues sized for an open fire — the flue is too wide for the appliance, so it runs cool and soots up faster than the installer suggested
- Original clay pots and flaunching approaching a hundred years old — we check the stack with binoculars before we start and tell you honestly what we can see
- Long-dormant flues in properties that have changed hands — if you have just moved in and do not know the history, assume it needs doing
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 Wythenshawe (M22 and M23) we work throughout Northenden, Baguley, Sharston, Benchill, Woodhouse Park, Peel Hall and Roundthorn.
Book a chimney sweep in Wythenshawe
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.