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Great time of year to get your solid fuel system swept, cleaned & serviced !

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We are finally getting to the end of the burning season in Hertfordshire & Essex. This is a fantastic time of year to get your appliances swept, cleaned and serviced. As air temperatures rise your flue can start to work in reverse, filling your house with soot and smells from flue. You will be ready for the next burning season & avoid struggling to find a sweep in the autumn to Christmas rush. The by-products of burning are corrosive to Read More …

Spring has finally sprung…

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The bird nesting season is well underway, with eggs in nests. These must be left by law until late summer when young have left the nest. Hoping the weather holds so I can catch up with the chimney stack work, plenty of reflaunching, new pots and pointing to be done. The new chimney scaffolding equipment needs to be up on the roof earning it’s keep.

HETAS 009 Everyday’s a School Day

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Every day is a school day in the chimney sweeping business ! In a ongoing plan to increase our knowledge base & skill sets, Tallant Chimney Sweeping is attending the HETAS 009 course run by SPECFLUE in Suffolk this week. On sucessful completion of this course we will be a HETAS Approved Chimney Sweep, making our service more attractive to commercial & private sector of the market.

Bird nesting season

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The birds are very active and pairing up this morning as I watch from my kitchen window coffee in hand. This is the ideal time of year to get a bird guard fitted or cap disused flues. Nests in a flue can cause chimney fires, damp and particularly nasty disease called histoplasmosis from droppings and dead juvenile birds decaying. Once the nest is active and has live young or eggs it can not be removed till after the birds have Read More …