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| Well we live in the same canton as Odile and lived for almost three years in our rented house without having the chimney swept once.
Nobody ever contacted us and said we had to do it and the landlord didn't specify it either.
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We bought a house with a Kacheloffen, wood burning stove, and oil heating and the Chimney Sweep guy came every year to clean it.
He also had to fill in a report to the Gemeinde on the state of the chimney/heating system.
I was interested in those houses without wood ovens, they all had chimney pots on their roofs - did he clean those too?
Yes, he did! By law they had to be cleaned every year.
If their heating system required the chimney as a vent for expended heat they had to be cleaned yearly.
The old family house has since replaced their oil heating with the hot air system requiring no chimney.
When the Kacheloffen and wood stove are removed - no chimney is required - no cleaning.
But ..... a Swedish oven is now being installed - so chimney sweep guy will still have business! As long as fumes are going up the chimney it has to be cleaned EVERY year!
How extreme this cleaning is ..... the chimney sweep occasionally and randomly takes samples of the soot for analysis - if you burn rubbish you could be in trouble and face a fine!