Chimney Sweep in Canterbury
Sooty & Sweeps are a family-run business with over 40 years’ experience, and we offer chimney sweeping and chimney cleaning in Canterbury, from open fires and wood burners to gas fires. Our sweeps are HETAS approved, accredited with APICS and fully insured.
We’ll give you a final quote before any work starts, and you’ll get a HETAS certificate afterwards that your home insurer will accept.
Chimneys in a historic city
Canterbury has a medieval city centre of timber-framed and Georgian buildings, with Victorian terraces and newer housing spreading out around it. Older buildings often have narrow, crooked or unlined flues, and some share a stack with the house next door, so a proper sweep and inspection matters before you rely on a fire. Much of the centre is a conservation area and many buildings are listed, so if you want to change a chimney stack, pot or cowl, check with Canterbury City Council first, as external work may need consent.
What a Canterbury sweep includes
- Visual inspection of the chimney stack, chimney pot and cowl
- Visual inspection of any appliance and installation for safety and compliance (HETAS)
- Chimney sweeping (ensuring no blockages are present)
- Smoke evacuation test of chimney flue
- Visual inspection of CO alarm
- HETAS approved certificate of Chimney Sweeping (home insurance approved)
We use dust sheets and a vacuum, so your room is left clean.
More than sweeping
If the inspection shows a problem, we can help with the fix: chimney fault finding, integrity tests, camera inspections of the flue, cowls, caps and bird guards, nest removal, chimney stack repair, flue lining and wood-burning stove installation. See our chimney sweeping, flue liner and log burner installation pages for detail.
We also work in nearby Whitstable, Herne Bay, Faversham and Deal. You can also see all our chimney sweeping areas in Kent, or contact us to book.
