Chimney sweep and fireplace cleaning in Eagles Nest
Every sweep in Eagles Nest ends with a visual check and a written record you keep.
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- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
From cap screen to hearth, in writing
- Flue brushed full height with sized brushes
- Smoke chamber brushed on every sloped face
- Written record of deposits and areas cleaned
- Brush chosen for clay tile or stainless liner
What goes into a proper chimney sweep
Top-sealing dampers, cables and gaskets during a sweep
A top-sealing damper closes the flue at the top instead of above the firebox. A spring holds its lid open, and a cable runs down the flue to a handle inside the fireplace that pulls it shut. A gasket on the lid seals against the top of the flue when it closes.
Sweeping a flue with one of these takes care. The cable hangs inside the flue, so brushes have to work around it without kinking or snagging it. Soot on the gasket keeps it from sealing, and creosote on the spring can slow the lid.
With the lid open, our crew brushes around the cable, wipes the gasket clean and tests the lid from the handle before leaving. A torn gasket, a frayed cable or a weak spring is written up as a separate repair on your estimate.
Soot on the roof and around the cap
Black staining on the shingles or tiles around a chimney top can come from smoke leaving the flue, soot washed off the cap by rain, or deposits knocked loose during an earlier cleaning that nobody collected. Whatever the source, nobody wants it spread further across the roof.
During a top-down sweep, our crew lays a cover around the chimney top and keeps the brush inside the flue as it goes in and out. Soot that falls on the cap or the roof around it is brushed off before the ladder comes down.
Heavy staining that returns quickly after cleaning usually points to smoky fires or a clogged cap screen. Our technicians tell Eagles Nest homeowners which one fits what they found, so the fix goes to the cause and not only the stain.
Sweeping a metal chimney inside a framed chase
Many factory-built fireplaces vent through a metal chimney enclosed in a framed chase, often built against an outside wall, with only the cap showing above a metal chase top.
One maker's instructions, DuraVent's for its DuraChimney II, show how that top goes together. The chase top flashing leaves a ventilation opening around the pipe and sits on spacers above the chase framing, a storm collar is sealed to the pipe above it, and the chimney cap sits above both. Parts come from the listed system, not from another maker.
When our crew sweeps a chase chimney in Eagles Nest, they clean the flue from the top, look at the chase top and storm collar while they are up there and note any gap that could let water into the chase. Chase repairs are quoted apart from the cleaning.
When the brush finds gaps in the flue lining
A clean flue shows its lining clearly. In a masonry chimney that lining is usually clay tile, and the Florida Building Code describes it laid in refractory mortar with tight joints, carried up the chimney as a smooth passage.
Sometimes brushing reveals something else. Joints with the mortar gone, a tile that has slipped out of line, or a stretch where the chimney brick shows with no lining in front of it. Each of those breaks the smooth, tight-jointed passage the code describes.
Patching a lining is not part of the sweep. Our crew notes where the gap is and how far up it sits, which shapes the repair options. The finding goes on your Eagles Nest estimate as flue repair or relining, and the fireplace should stay unused until you decide.
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Chimney sweep questions in Eagles Nest
Do you clean the stove pipe along with the chimney?
Yes. Wood stove chimney cleaning includes the connector pipe, its joints and the stove's flue outlet as far as the stove manual allows. A rusted or split pipe section is quoted for replacement instead of being cleaned.
What should I do before the sweep arrives?
Let the fireplace go cold for at least a day, clear a path to the hearth and move fragile items off the mantel. Keep pets in another room, and leave the damper and any insert as they are for our crew.
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