Recent content by Sirsweepalot101

No scaremongering here! It's a pre-requisite now from certain mortgage lenders that for particular mortgage products if there is a solid fuel element to a property the bank/building society WILL NOT lend the money unless BC/HETAS evidence is in situ.

I've recently had a lot of sweeps from estate agents and solicitors up to 24 hours before completion and due to the install not being signed off the chain has collapsed due to the install not legal. This will continue to get bigger as more and more lenders refuse mortgages on not HETAS/BC installs!

Ah yes the good old copy and paste. You can quote how all those DIYers are going to rally around to your solid fuel home installation call (so many of them rallied to your defence at my destruction of your "so called" knowledge of chimney sweeping! At the end of the day there are 2 ways of...

Well that's one thing you've got right on this forum however I'm no doubt one of my HETAS Brethren will indirectly pocket your cash when the potential purchasers offer you less for the property to reflect the works that should originally been done correctly in the first place (like the rest of...

HAHAHAHA! Handbags, toys out of pram, I knew you'd crack. I guess you were bullied a lot in school by people who went on to become HETAS engineers and that is why you have such a chip on your shoulder regarding any tradesmen. Good luck with that. I'd keep that temper under wraps also otherwise...

You know what you should have done HETAS/BC and as long as there's a good draw from the smoke pellet before and after the sweep and everything's safe  as a sweep I don't really care wether you installed it yourself or not! It's yours and your families lives your risking not mine. As long as you...

"Green wood" in the trade (ie chimney sweeping, the trade of which I obviously am a member of) is any wood with a higher than recommended burning percentage. It's recommended to burn at no higher than 20% moisture content (of which you can test with a moisture meter) Now bearing in mind on a...

Not to mention the fact that local councils are also looking at charging £1,500 per engine that has to attend putting out above mentioned chimney fire if it can be proved that your appliance was the cause of the fire.  Add the fact that you'd be uninsured and those saved pennies start to look...

The main Chimney fires source of a chimney fire Is from burning unseasoned or green wood and by the sounds of it your also trying to save money hereby drying it in your front room! This is penny pinching at its absolute worst! It will take years off the life of your non HETAS/BC signed off self...