Stoves and open fires swept around Ash, Martock and South Somerset, for less if you book between January and September.

A friendly, qualified and professional sweep, local to the Ash, Martock and South Somerset area. WhatsApp, call or text Graham to book your sweep.

5.0 from 57 Google reviewsOff-peak from £65Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

A log burner alight in a stone inglenook with a red brick back

The sweeping season

Stoves and most open fires cost less to sweep from January to September: from £65 off-peak, compared with from £75 in the peak months of October to December.

Please consider having your chimney swept before the winter rush.

Pros include:

  • better availability.
  • cheaper off-peak prices.
  • setting yourself up to repeat these pros each year.

Cons:

  • there are none
Graham, August 2024
  1. January: off-peak, from £65
  2. February: off-peak, from £65
  3. March: off-peak, from £65
  4. April: off-peak, from £65
  5. May: off-peak, from £65
  6. June: off-peak, from £65
  7. July: off-peak, from £65
  8. August: off-peak, from £65
  9. September: off-peak, from £65
  10. October: peak, from £75
  11. November: peak, from £75
  12. December: peak, from £75

Price list

Every price here is a starting price. For yours, WhatsApp, call or text on 07938 454441.

  • Stoves and most open fires, off-peak

    Off-peak discount. (January to September)

    from £65

  • Stoves and most open fires, peak

    (October to December)

    from £75

  • Birds nest removal

    Including a free CCTV check, then £10 for every 15 minutes over the first hour.

    from £100

  • CCTV survey

    (including sweep)

    from £100

  • Stove servicing

    from £10

  • Carbon monoxide alarm

    (including fitting if required)

    from £25

Graham sweeping a stove with the sweeping sheet and rods, beside a leather sofa
Dust sheet down, sheet over the stove, and the vacuum running.

Clean as a whistle!

Before and after, January 2026

A stove flue outlet coated in soot before sweeping
Before
The same flue outlet swept clean
After

What comes down

“It’s amazing the amount of soot and tar that can build up.”

Graham, July 2025

A heap of soot swept down into a fireplace
This mountain isn't even half of it! March 2024
Thick soot built up on a smoke shelf beside the brickwork
July 2025
Flakes of soot piled on a stove baffle
April 2026
A gloved hand holding a large lump of tar and soot over a garden bed
July 2025
Close-up of soot and grit brought down from a flue
Swept out
Soot piled in the firebox of a stove before cleaning
April 2026
Chunks of soot and tar collected in the vacuum drum
July 2025
Soot in an open fire grate with sweeping rods in place
July 2025
A gloved hand holding a feather pulled out with nest material from a fire grate

Birds’ nests and the camera

Birds nest removal

Including a free CCTV check, from £100, and then £10 for every 15 minutes over the first hour.

CCTV survey

The survey includes a sweep, from £100.

A CCTV camera check of a flue, the picture showing on a phone screen beside the vacuum hose
A CCTV check up the flue.

What customers say

5.0 from 57 reviews on Google100% recommend on Facebook (34 reviews)
“Graham provides an excellent, 100% reliable and efficient chimney-sweeping service. He is honest, prompt and trustworthy, and leaves everything absolutely immaculately clean. He takes real pride in his work and does a thoroughly professional job every time. We cannot recommend him highly enough - ten out of ten, without hesitation!”
KL Whippet, Google review
“Great service - prompt and professional reply to our initial enquiry, date set. Graham arrived at the time agreed and did a great job with our log burner. Friendly and knowledgeable and left everything clean and tidy - thank you! See you next year!”
Zoe Grainger, Google review
“Excellent, professional job. Considerate and respectful of the home. Great attention to detail and left everything clean and tidy. No hesitation in recommending, Graham, not just as a great chimney sweep but great character too. Thanks”
rolf drury, Google review
“Graham is the best sweep we've ever had. Absolutely professional, knowledgeable and friendly. He is very thorough, leaves everything immaculately clean, with a certificated report on the flue, stove and CO2 alarm. All that and he's a lovely, friendly person too! Couldn't recommend him highly enough.”
Kacey Leader, Google review
“This review is a bit overdue.....but better late than never.....first time we used Better Sweep Symphony and we found Graham to be very professional/knowledgeable and he did a brilliant job. He went above and beyond such as cleaning the glass on our log burner and advising on how to replace our fire bricks. Highly recommend and definately will be using again.”
Elizabeth Meade, Google review
Graham, the sweep behind Better Sweep Symphony, by a lake

Hello, I’m Graham

Better Sweep Symphony is me: a friendly, qualified and professional sweep, local to the Ash, Martock and South Somerset area. Every sweep is booked with me directly, by WhatsApp, a call or a text.

“It’s the perfect time in my opinion to get your log burner swept. Soot is corrosive. Even though your liner is good at handling this, giving it the summer off not coated in this corrosive soot can only be good, and will help to extend the life of your expensive liner.”

Graham, on spring sweeps, April 2026
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On the dust sheet

Sheets down, fire sealed, vacuum on: a few of the stoves and fireplaces I’ve swept.

Graham kneeling at a stove under an oak beam with a head torch and mask
Graham vacuuming out a wood-burning stove
Graham in a dust mask with the sweeping vacuum at a brick fireplace
A fireplace sealed with a sheet and the vacuum hose in place before sweeping
The same stove with a dust sheet laid out in front, ready for sweeping
A log burner alight behind its glass doors
A stone fireplace with an open grate in a sitting room
A stove in a stone inglenook sealed up, with the vacuum, tool bag and dust sheet laid out
A modern stove in a white fireplace surround after sweeping
A smoke test under way in a stone fireplace
A metal plate from a fireplace laid on the dust sheet
A brick chimney stack with its cowl, seen from below

Local to Ash and Martock

Based in Ash, near Martock, and sweeping chimneys, stoves and open fires across the South Somerset area.

Area
Ash, Martock and South Somerset
Hours
Mon-Fri 9am-5pmSat and Sun closed
A stainless chimney cowl with a bird guard on a chimney pot, with a Somerset village and hills behind
A cowl and bird guard, up on the stack.

Book your sweep

WhatsApp, call or text on 07938 454441, or email bettersweepsymphony@gmail.com.

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