Chimney sweep and soot removal for Moss Park homes
We brush out soot and flaky creosote and quote any glazed section separately, so nothing hides in the price.
- Licensed & insured
- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
Your chimney cleaning, itemized
- Flue brushed full height with sized brushes
- Metal chimney cap removed and reset per its maker
- Top-sealing damper gasket and cable checked
- Roof area around the chimney covered
How a chimney gets cleaned properly
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.
Taking off and resetting a metal chimney cap
On a factory-built chimney, the cap often has to come off before the flue can be brushed from the top. How it comes off depends on the system. One maker's instructions, for example, have the spark arrestor released by loosening its bolts and twisting it free, then reinstalled with every bolt fully engaged in its slot.
The steps are the ones written for the chimney on your roof. Our technicians keep the parts together, clean the screen while it is off and reset the cap so it sits square and locks the way the maker intended. Nothing is swapped for a part from another system, because the chimney was listed with its own parts.
If the cap is bent, rusted through or missing fasteners, our crew in Moss Park tells you before putting it back and quotes the correct replacement separately.
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 Moss Park, 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.
A sweep before you list your home
Buyers and their inspectors look up the chimney. A flue coated in soot, a smoke shelf full of debris or a damper that will not move raises questions that are easy to answer ahead of time.
A sweep before listing cleans the flue, firebox and damper and gives you a dated written record of the work that you can hand to a buyer. It also shows you what needs repair before a buyer's inspector finds it.
Those repair items are listed separately, so you can choose which to fix, which to price into the sale and which to disclose. Timing helps too, since booking the sweep before the listing goes up leaves room to finish any repair you decide to make. Sellers in Moss Park get the same free inspection and written estimate as anyone else.
Other work in Moss Park
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- Fireplace InstallationPlan the fireplace before opening the wall.
- Prefab and Zero-Clearance Fireplace RepairRepair the fireplace according to its model.
- Stone Chimney RepairKeep stone repairs suited to the existing masonry.
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Before you set up a sweep in Moss Park
Will a sweep fix a fireplace that smokes?
It fixes the part caused by deposits in the flue. A damper that does not open fully, a clogged cap screen or wet wood can also cause smoke, so we check those too and note the results on the written record.
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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