Lee Pearce is the founder partner of Apex Chimney Services. He started sweeping chimneys back in 1983 and has been a member of the National Association of Chimney Sweeps (NACS) since 1991. Since then Lee has been heavily involved in the chimney industry and is a respected expert in this field. Originally representing the NACS, as their Safety Officer, he worked on a project with the Health & Safety Executive to construct a Guide to Health & Safety for chimney sweeps which is still in use today. Currently, Lee is the Technical Director of the NACS and has represented them on several Technical Committees including the British Standards Committee, a Chimney Experts Panel on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and at a Congress for the European Federation of Master Chimney Sweeps.

His latest contribution on behalf of the NACS and Chimney Industry in general was to oversee, compile and publish the first ever National Chimney Survey of Faulty Flues & Terminals. The survey covered some 7560 chimneys that were visited by NACS members over an 18 week period and found 699 faulty chimney installations. This survey is currently being used by Government Departments and several other high profile institutions to help highlight problems encountered within the field.

Lee was one of the first chimney sweeps in the UK to be awarded the City & Guilds / NVQ in Chimney Engineering and he is now an instructor at the Chimney Training Centre at Stone in Staffordshire helping to educate other chimney sweeps.

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