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Soot & Bristle - A York based Chimney Sweep servicing chimneys across Yorkshire.

19/03/2026

Busy day today, which ended with an install of the very clever Reco-Heat system for one of my regular customers. Get in touch if you’re interested in having this fantastic product installed by York’s only official installer 👍🏻✅🔥💨

30/01/2026

Sadly, we recently attended a property where another sweep had been carrying out work but failing to clean up properly before leaving.

The appliance itself wasn’t compliant due to lack of access into the register plate. When sweeping an unlined chimney, it’s absolutely critical that any soot and debris falling onto the register plate is fully removed. In this case, it hadn’t been - and a large build-up of soot and tar had accumulated.

As you can see from the video, this build-up had ignited, with debris dropping through cracked fire cement around the stove pipe. The chimney had been swept repeatedly, but the fall was simply left to sit on the register plate — creating a serious fire risk for the customer. Not good.

We carried out a full sweep, installed a proper access panel in the register plate, removed the cracked fire cement and replaced it with a reliable stove pipe collar.

Everything is now fully compliant with Building Regulations and most importantly, safe to use 👍🏻

25/12/2025

I’d like to wish all of my wonderful customers a Very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 🍻

30/10/2025

A customer asked me to sweep their chimney and check over the stove in their recently purchased house and here’s what I found…. A WOODEN register plate! Made from chip board 🤦🏼‍♂️. Crazy! Sadly I had to condemn the appliance and suggest the chimney is lined with a new, metal register plate installed.

24/10/2025

You don’t see many of these around. A beautiful French antique stove, with an unlined chimney. Tricky job, but worth the effort for such a beautiful thing 😍🔥

06/10/2025

Life lately 🧹🧹

01/09/2025

1st September and you can see signs out Autumn everywhere. It’s my favourite time of year, but it also means the diary is really starting to fill up now people are thinking about lighting the fire. Get in touch to book your sweep now and avoid the crazy pre-Christmas rush. 🧹🔥☕️🍂🍁

31/07/2025

This chimney took some work today! It hasn’t been touched since at least 1994… we know this because of the newspaper the previous owner had used to block the entrance to the chimney from the fireplace. 4 large rubble sacks full of nest debris and some historical soot 🧹

14/07/2025

Some jobs are messier than others 🥽😷🧹

20/05/2025

We recently cleaned a chimney for customer who’d been closing the air vents on their stove overnight. This caused highly flammable creosote to build up in their flue, which risks a chimney fire and damages to the liner. It’s really not advised to slumber your fire overnight like this for your own safety. The customer has taken our advice and will no longer be slumbering the fire overnight. Please see the before and after pictures.

13/02/2025

It’s been a busy day of pub chimneys today 🧹🍺

06/02/2025

Out and about in Yorkshire today 🧹👌🏻👍🏻😍

Address

York

Website

http://www.sootandbristle.co.uk/

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