Chimney sweep and fireplace cleaning in Piedmont
Local sweeps for fireplaces, wood stoves and inserts in Piedmont, each cleaned the way its maker intends.
- Licensed & insured
- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
The work behind a clean flue
- Free inspection of flue, damper and firebox
- Cap screen brushed free of soot
- Refractory panels cleaned without scraping
- Glass doors and frame cleaned after brushing
How we sweep chimneys in Piedmont
Glazed buildup inside the smoke chamber
The smoke chamber is the sloped space between the damper and the start of the flue. Deposits there can harden into a glaze just as they do higher up. Because the walls angle inward, a straight flue brush does not reach every face of it.
Glazed deposits in the smoke chamber get the same kind of removal treatment as a glazed flue. One product label describes a sprayer made for that space, and the treatment is applied per the label. Once it dries, the loosened material is brushed down and collected from the smoke shelf and firebox.
The smoke chamber is its own area on your estimate. You see whether it needs only brushing or a glazed treatment, and once it is clean you learn whether the mortar coating on its walls is still intact.
See-through fireplaces with two open faces
A see-through fireplace opens into two rooms, or into a room and a patio. That means two openings to protect, two faces that can stain and air that can move across the firebox from one side to the other.
Cleaning one means protecting both rooms. Our technicians cover the floor and seal both openings before brushing, then clean the firebox from each side so neither face is missed. The damper and smoke chamber above are brushed the same way as in a single-opening masonry fireplace.
If glass doors close one side, they are opened or lifted off for cleaning and go back on afterward. When smoke tends to roll out of one face more than the other, our crew notes it, because airflow in the house can be part of the cause and cleaning alone may not change it. That finding goes on the written record.
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 Piedmont, 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.
Workmanship warranty and 100% satisfaction on every sweep
Every sweep and every repair from our crew is backed by our workmanship warranty and our 100% satisfaction guarantee. If something about the cleaning is not right, tell us, and we work it out with you under that guarantee. None of that depends on the size of the job.
That promise rests on how the work is done. The room is protected before brushing, the debris is collected and carried out, the damper is tested before the crew leaves and the written record shows what was cleaned. Soot where it should not be falls under our workmanship warranty.
The written record also draws the line on what the guarantee covers. A crack found during the sweep is a finding, not something the sweep caused or fixed, and it is quoted separately. The same terms apply on every visit.
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Chimney sweep questions in Piedmont
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 if the flue has a hard, shiny coating the brushes cannot remove?
That is glazed creosote, and it calls for a separate removal treatment applied per the product label. We quote it as its own line, and the treated material is swept out on a second visit once it dries.
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