Chimney cleaning is the type of job people don’t think much about until they’re in need of a sweep. But when it’s needed, there are few things more important than getting it done – especially if a ...

Steven Carter is a master sweep, having swept well over 40,000 chimneys in the past four decades. Though he might not dance on rooftops like Dick Van Dyke’s cockney sweep in “Mary Poppins,” the London ...

His work is simple, but he's not willing to divulge any tricks of the trade. After all, it could put him out of business, and being the self-proclaimed only chimney sweep in a five-parish radius, Mark ...

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- Leonard Boucher swivels his flexible, pole-mounted video camera and peers into the farthest recesses of a fireplace. A grainy picture appears on a nearby monitor. Boucher, a ...