The paperwork is the job
Sweeping a flue takes an hour. Proving it was swept, on the right date, by someone competent, eighteen months later when an insurer is asking — that's the part that actually costs landlords money.
Most sweeps hand over a paper certificate and that's the end of their involvement. It goes in a drawer, the property changes agent, and when it's needed nobody can find it.
What we do instead
Every flue we sweep gets a Flue Passport — a permanent record holding every certificate, every photograph and every condition score, going back as far as we've worked on it. Scan the medallion on the chimney and it's all there.
Change agent, sell the property, face a claim: the record follows the building, not the filing cabinet.
Why it matters for rented property
- Insurers increasingly ask for evidence of annual sweeping after a chimney fire
- A tenant complaint about smoke is much easier to answer with photographs and a date
- Repairing Standard duties mean fixed installations must be in working order
- Letting agents inherit properties with no history — the Passport gives them one
We're chimney specialists, not solicitors — for what your specific obligations are, take proper advice.
