The Complete
Sweep delivers the full range of traditional
sweep services, along with nest and blockage removal, refitting of chimney pots and gas terminals, and the supply and fit of cages, caps and cowls.
And few States license
sweeps, although most require them to carry liability insurance.
The
sweeps and trawls were towed with conventional trawl doors on each side and a weight (clump) in the middle.
They could be apprenticed to Master
Sweeps from a very young age and the fact that there were no safety rules or regulations meant they had a cruel and dangerous existence.
Most chimney
sweeps are self-employed, although some work for private firms.
For example, a B-knight
sweep is BAT-BEN-BOW-BUS-RIB.
Jo Flounders, 38, one of Wales' only women chimney
sweeps, started cleaning chimneys as a sideline to her main business of running a poultry farm.
He learned that many chimney
sweeps lived in the asylum and that more continued to arrive from all over.
Evidently, by shifting from conventional sawing to curve sawing and with more (i.e., in greater proportions) input tree-length logs with 3- and 4-inch
sweeps, the mill could attain higher levels of conversion efficiency and economic benefits.
Methods employed by modern chimney
sweeps are similar to those from Victorian days, with most of the work still done with extendable brushes.