Chimney sweep for fireplaces and wood stoves in Falcon Trace
Save 10% on chimney cleaning booked within 72 hours after the free inspection, with a written estimate before any work.
- Licensed & insured
- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
Your chimney cleaning, itemized
- Damper plate, frame and pivot cleaned
- Debris bagged and carried out of the house
- Repair findings listed on separate estimate lines
- Refractory panels cleaned without scraping
Sweeping details that matter for your fireplace
Collecting the soot instead of moving it around
Brushing loosens deposits, but a sweep is only finished when they leave the house. Soot falls onto the smoke shelf, into the firebox, to the base of the flue and, on a stove, into the connector pipe. Each of those places gets emptied, including the ones you cannot see from the room.
The debris is bagged at the hearth, sealed and carried out through the same protected path the crew came in on. Nothing is swept into a corner of the firebox to deal with later.
The debris is also evidence. Pieces of tile, rust flakes or nesting material mixed in with the soot tell our technicians something about the flue above. They look through it before it is bagged and tell you about anything unusual before leaving the house.
Brushing the smoke chamber above the damper
Above the damper, the smoke chamber funnels smoke from the wide firebox into the narrower flue. Its walls slope inward, and deposits collect on those slopes where a straight flue brush passes them by. A factory-built fireplace has no masonry smoke chamber, and its metal transition above the firebox is cleaned the way its maker directs.
The Florida Building Code calls for the inside of a masonry smoke chamber to be parged smooth with refractory mortar. A smooth surface brushes clean. A rough or stepped surface, with brick edges showing, holds soot on every ledge and takes more work to clean.
Our technicians brush the smoke chamber from below with a brush shaped for its angled walls, then look at the parging once it is visible. Missing or crumbling parging becomes a separate repair item for your Falcon Trace home, while the sweep still cleans what is there.
A cap screen choked with soot
The mesh screen on a chimney cap keeps animals out and stops sparks from leaving the flue. It also catches soot and creosote as smoke passes through it. A coated or clogged screen can hold back the draft and push smoke back toward the fireplace.
One chimney maker's instructions tell owners to check the spark arrestor screen for creosote or soot and to clean it when buildup is found, scrubbing it with a wire brush. On many caps the screen or the whole assembly comes off for cleaning and goes back on with the same fasteners.
Our technicians clean the cap screen on every sweep that goes to the roof. A screen that is torn, rusted through or pulling away from the cap is not something a brush fixes, so a replacement cap is quoted as a separate line.
Sweeping a fireplace in a condo or townhouse
A fireplace in a condo or townhouse often shares a roof, a wall or a chimney structure with neighbors. The flue serving your unit may run beside others, and the roof may be managed by the building rather than by you.
Access comes first. Our crew confirms whether roof access needs permission from the building's management, and whether the flue can be cleaned from inside the unit instead. Matching your fireplace to the right flue on the roof matters even more here, since the flue next to yours belongs to someone else.
The written record names your unit, your fireplace and your flue, which is useful if the building asks when the flue was last cleaned. Any finding that touches shared structure is written up so you can take it to the people responsible for it.
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What homeowners ask before a sweep
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.
Do I need to be home for the chimney cleaning?
Someone needs to let our crew in and approve the written estimate, and we go over the record with you at the end. For rentals and seasonal homes we can work with a caretaker or property manager and send the record afterward.
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