Chimney Sweep & Cleaning in Geelong

Bringing Geelong's original fireplaces back into safe use

Geelong's older suburbs are full of original open fireplaces, and a good share of them are being used again as the period homes are restored. That is the context for most of our sweeps here: an unlined Victorian or Edwardian flue with an unknown gap since its last clean, creosote layered on the brick, and an owner who wants to know it is safe before lighting it.

A first sweep in years is a different job from an annual one. The brush comes off the rods loaded, so we work the flue in passes with a rotary head sized to the brick, vacuum the smoke shelf, and then camera the length to see whether what is left is stubborn creosote that needs a deep clean or bare brick that needs nothing. The camera stills come to you either way.

Interwar and post-war homes further out from the centre are simpler: shorter brick flues, often with a heater retrofitted, swept from the firebox with the opening sealed and the vacuum running. Whatever the era, you get before and after stills of the flue and an honest word on whether the mortar or the cap needs looking at while the fire is out.