If you’re looking for some useful lessons in business and in life, you could learn a few things from my chimney sweeper. First, let me tell you a bit about our chimney issue and how we winded up ...

What started as *** job to help him through college has now become *** lucrative business. Mike Kofod is *** modern day chimney sweeper. KFO claims he's cleaning more chimneys because people are ...

It's the busiest time of year for chimney sweeps as families prep for Santa. — -- Before Santa drops down the chimney, Aaron Golub of "Up on the Roof” in Freehold, N.J., often takes the first ...

Ables, who grew up in Brady, owns and runs Ables Top Hat Chimney Sweeps. He has been sweeping chimneys in Central Texas for almost thirty years. When I was 28, my wife and I moved into a house in ...

For hundreds of years, chimney sweeps have provided a necessary and important service to society. In 1981, Jeff Schmittinger started working in the field and today he operates Wisconsin Chimney ...

Wayne Walker talks about being a chimney sweep in Middle Georgia. Q: A chimney sweep isn’t a career that pops into mind in the south. Is there really a call for it? A: There are more fireplaces in ...

My patient is a 39-year-old man who is a professional chimney sweep. He asked me if he should be getting chest x-rays or pulmonary function testing on any kind of a regular basis. Other than increased ...

Chimney sweep Tim Nelson had one last chimney to check on Friday, and it was an important one. That’s because inside the house on Danneel Street, 4-year-old Leo Iarocci had made a long list of ...

With the romanticized but dangerous and dirty trade languishing, Pete Hawk captured chimney sweeps at work, toiling above treetops in the City of Light. Photographs by Pete Hawk Text by Evelyn Nieves ...