Local chimney animal removal for Engelwood Park homes
A screened cap, a clean flue and a written record for your Engelwood Park home once the animal has lawfully left.
- Licensed & insured
- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
Your Engelwood Park chimney cleanup, item by item
- Flue inspected top to bottom
- Listed cap for factory-built chimneys
- Cap fitted only after the flue is empty
- Timing set around protected species
How our pros handle chimney animals in Engelwood Park
If a bat may have touched someone
The CDC advises contacting a doctor or the local health department after any possible contact with a bat, including waking to find a bat in the room. Do not try to catch or handle it with bare hands. Once that question is settled, we look for the route the bat used, which is often an uncapped flue or a gap at the cap, and plan an exclusion that follows Florida's timing rules. Keep the bat contained in one room if you can, without touching it, in case it needs to be tested.
Branches that give animals a route
Squirrels, raccoons and other climbers reach a roof along overhanging branches. A limb that touches the roof near the chimney is a ladder to the flue. Trimming branches back from the roofline makes the chimney harder to reach and cuts the debris that collects on the cap. We point out limbs that concern us during the inspection so you can have them trimmed. Keep trimmed limbs several feet from the roof, since squirrels can jump a surprising distance.
A blocked flue and carbon monoxide
A flue partly blocked by nest material may not carry combustion gases out of the house the way it should. A working carbon monoxide alarm near sleeping areas is a sensible precaution in any home with a fuel-burning appliance. If a carbon monoxide alarm sounds, get everyone outside and call 911 first. Chimney questions come after everyone is safe. Leave the fireplace unused until the flue has been cleared and checked from top to bottom. Test the alarm with its button after the chimney work, and replace its batteries as its maker directs.
A sturdier cap after an animal broke through
A light screen can be bent or torn by a raccoon or squirrel that wants in. When the old cap has been damaged that way, a heavier cap with a stiffer screen and secure fastening is worth considering. We show you what failed on the old one and quote options that hold up better, with the screen openings still inside the code range. A sturdier cap is still removable for cleaning, as the code requires for spark arrestors.
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Before you call about an animal in Engelwood Park
What does the chimney cleanup include?
We remove nest material and droppings from the flue, smoke shelf and firebox, check the damper and inspect the flue before the fireplace is used again. A full sweep is added where the flue needs it.
Do squirrels and raccoons fall under the same rules as bats?
No. Bats have a maternity season when exclusion is not allowed, and chimney swifts are protected while nesting. Other nuisance wildlife falls under Florida's general nuisance wildlife rule, which still limits the methods used and where a live animal may be released.
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