Family-owned chimney sweep serving Randal Park
Your fireplace, cleaned from the cap screen to the hearth by a crew that protects the room first.
- Licensed & insured
- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
Your chimney cleaning, itemized
- Written record of deposits and areas cleaned
- Metal chimney cap removed and reset per its maker
- Repair findings listed on separate estimate lines
- Brush chosen for clay tile or stainless liner
The cleaning behind a clear-drawing flue
Raccoons, squirrels and other animals come out first
Raccoons, squirrels, birds and other animals get into uncapped flues, and some nest on the smoke shelf. A sweep does not start with an animal still inside. Brushing a flue with a live animal in it is unsafe for the animal and for the person on the rods.
Our technicians confirm the flue is empty before cleaning. If it is not, the job goes to our animal removal service first, which handles the removal and any exclusion. Nests, droppings and debris left behind are then cleared during the sweep.
An animal that got in once will try again, so the estimate for your Randal Park home shows a cap or a screen repair if the flue is open. Keep the damper closed and the room shut until the animal is out, and do not light a fire to chase it out.
Written pricing before any brush goes up
You see the price in writing before the sweep starts. The estimate names the fireplace or stove being cleaned, the flue, the method and anything extra the job needs, such as heavy buildup, a stove pipe to take down or a metal cap to remove and reset.
Upfront pricing means no hidden fees added after the fact. If our crew finds something during the sweep that changes the job, like a glazed section or a stuck damper, they stop and explain it, and it becomes a separate line you approve or decline.
Separate lines also make comparisons fair. If you are weighing our estimate against another company's in Randal Park, you can see exactly what each price includes and what it leaves out. Nothing is bundled into a package you cannot pull apart.
A masonry chimney that now vents a gas appliance
Some masonry chimneys that once served wood fires now vent a gas fireplace or another gas appliance. The fuel has changed, but the flue can still collect debris, nests, fallen mortar or old wood-burning deposits that were never removed.
If you smell gas, do not light the appliance. Get everyone out of the home and call 911 or the gas company from outside.
Cleaning and servicing the gas appliance itself is gas fireplace work, handled under our gas fireplace service. What a sweep can do is clear the chimney above the appliance, remove a blockage and check the cap. On a converted fireplace in Randal Park, the estimate keeps the two apart, with the flue work priced under the sweep and the appliance referred to the gas fireplace service as its own job.
The tee cap at the base of an outside metal chimney
Some wood stoves vent through a wall into a metal chimney that runs up the outside of the house. At the bottom of that outside run there is often a tee with a removable cleanout cap. One maker's instructions, for its DuraTech chimney, describe taking off that tee cap for cleaning and putting it back when the cleaning is finished.
The tee is where brushing debris collects, and it is also where it comes out. Our crew brushes the chimney from the top or from the tee, empties the soot through the cleanout and cleans the horizontal pipe that runs through the wall to the stove.
The cap has to go back on firmly, or rain and animals get a way in. If it is rusted, bent or missing, our technicians quote the matching part from the same maker, since a factory-built chimney keeps its listed parts. That shows up as a separate item on the estimate.
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Quick answers on flue cleaning
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.
Can I use the fireplace the same day it is swept?
Usually, yes, once our crew has finished and the damper has been tested. The exceptions are a glazed treatment that is still drying and a repair finding that should be settled first, and we tell you about either before we leave.
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