Chimney sweep for fireplaces and wood stoves in Keene's Pointe
Save 10% on chimney cleaning booked within 72 hours after the free inspection, with a written estimate before any work.
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Inside the estimate for your Keene's Pointe sweep
- Debris bagged and carried out of the house
- Written record of deposits and areas cleaned
- Cleanout door emptied and cover closed
- Refractory panels cleaned without scraping
Chimney cleaning facts for Keene's Pointe homes
The return visit after a glazed-deposit treatment
A glazed treatment is a two-part job. Once applied, it has to dry in the flue before anything else happens, and the label recommends keeping rain off it while it dries. Some of the dried material drops on its own onto the smoke shelf and into the firebox. The rest comes down with a normal sweep on the return visit.
Very heavy glazed deposits may need a second application before the flue is clean. The label also calls for the cleaned lining to be checked for cracked tile and damaged mortar joints before the fireplace goes back into use, since a thick coating can hide both.
Both visits are scheduled when you approve the work, and we ask you to leave the fireplace unused in between. After the final sweep you get the lining findings in writing.
Tall chimneys on two-story homes
A chimney that rises past a second story means a longer flue, a longer ladder and a higher roof to work from. None of that changes the cleaning itself, but it changes the setup and the time the job takes.
Before anyone climbs, our technicians set the ladder and fall protection and bring enough rod length to reach the full flue from one end. On a very tall flue the brushing is often done in stages, with the smoke chamber and firebox finished from inside.
A tall chimney also has more exposed height for wind and rain. While the crew is up there, they look over the cap and the upper brick, and anything that needs work goes on the estimate by name. The sweep price itself is set in writing before the ladder goes up.
The first fire after your chimney is swept
After a sweep, the first fire is a good test of how the chimney draws. Build a small fire with dry, split, seasoned wood, open the damper fully before lighting and watch how the smoke rises. Keep that first fire modest instead of loading the firebox.
A clean flue with a working damper should draw steadily once the fire is going. Smoke that keeps rolling out of the opening after startup means something is still wrong, and the fireplace should wait until the cause is found.
Before they leave, our technicians in Keene's Pointe tell you if anything from the sweep affects that first fire, such as a damper that needs a firm pull or a glazed treatment that is still drying. That note goes into the written record, along with where the damper handle sits when it is fully open.
Fireplace cleaning and flue cleaning are different jobs
Fireplace cleaning is the part you can see, meaning the firebox walls and floor, the grate, the glass doors and the face around the opening. Chimney flue cleaning covers the passage above the damper, all the way to the cap.
A fireplace that looks clean from the room can still have a coated flue, and a swept flue leaves soot in the firebox until someone cleans it out. Fireplace chimney cleaning done properly covers both, along with the damper, smoke chamber and smoke shelf that sit between them.
When you ask for a sweep in Keene's Pointe, our estimate lists each area that will be cleaned, so you can see that the flue is included and not only the firebox. If you want only the visible part cleaned before a showing or an event, we can do that too, and the estimate will say so.
Other work in Keene's Pointe
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- Prefab and Zero-Clearance Fireplace RepairRepair the fireplace according to its model.
- Smoke Chamber RepairRepair the transition above the fireplace opening.
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What homeowners ask before a sweep
Do you inspect the chimney before you sweep it?
Yes. Every visit starts with a free inspection of the flue, damper, smoke chamber and firebox, and you get a written estimate before any cleaning. If the deposits are too light to need a sweep, we tell you that instead.
Can you sweep a chimney that has birds or animals in it?
Not while they are inside. Chimney swifts are federally protected, so the sweep waits until they leave, and bats or other animals are handled by our animal removal service before any cleaning. Once the flue is clear, we sweep it and quote a cap to keep them out.
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