Today we had arranged for a company to come and sweep the chimney and to clean the ducts which carry heated or cooled air through the house. The truck, when it turned up, had the appearance of a giant vacuum cleaner with bags on the top which inflated when it was switched on...
...and a huge suction pipe..
The vacuum was soon attached to the furnace (central heating boiler/air conditioning unit) ..
It was quite noisy - and quite chilly with the garage door open to accommodate the pipe.
The vacuum was also used to test and clean the ducts attached to the tumble dryer - which was just as well as there were apparently several birds nests (hopefully last year's) at the outdoor end of the pipe.
Then it was time for the chimney cleaning and the young man climbed right in.. you can just see his feet in the above picture.
So this evening we should have cleaner air all around!
How old exactly was this young man? You do know that sending children up chimneys was made unlawful over 100 years ago. What did he look like when he came out? By the way we use holly to sweep ours.
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