Should You Get Your Chimney Swept After Christmas?

Chimney sweeping in Marlow should take place at least twice a year, and the rest of the UK for that matter.

You should have your chimney swept twice a year, once at the start of the heating season and once at the end of it, so in the autumn, and again in the spring.

So should you have your chimney swept after Christmas? The answer is yes, particularly if you have had a number of fires over the Christmas period.

Family gatherings over Christmas are the perfect opportunity to gather around the fire and use it for seasonal activities. Whether that is putting up stockings for Father Christmas, putting out a carrot for Rudolf, or just sitting around it to keep warm, fires make the ideal focus of any idyllic family Christmas.

All those fires can lead to the increased build up of soot in your chimney so if you have more fires than usual over the festive period you should consider getting it swept as soon after Christmas as possible.

Now is a good time to be thinking about and preparing your home so that it is as safe as possible for any visiting family, particularly children and older people.

Getting your chimney swept is a safety essential, as chimney fires are largely avoidable but can be devastating. They represent less than 3 per cent of all fires but getting your chimney swept to avoid them is an essential part of any home safety maintenance.

There were over 5,000 avoidable chimney fires in England and Wales – April 2016 to March 2017 and though the number is dropping any avoidable fire is a tragedy.