Local chimney animal removal for Winter Garden homes
We never trap an animal inside your Winter Garden chimney. The opening is closed only after we confirm the flue is empty.
- Licensed & insured
- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
Your Winter Garden chimney cleanup, item by item
- Smoke shelf cleared and checked
- Crown or chase cover gaps noted
- Written record of the work
- Workmanship warranty on the cap
How our pros handle chimney animals in Winter Garden
Florida's rules for bats in a chimney
Florida protects bats, and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission restricts exclusion from April 16 through August 14, the maternity season, while the young still cannot fly. Outside that window, exclusion devices let bats leave but not return before openings are sealed. We explain which part of that calendar your chimney falls in and plan the cap for when the rules allow it. Outside the maternity season, the exclusion is usually done first and the cap follows once the bats are out.
Screen sizes the residential code sets
The Florida residential code, in section R1003.9.2, sets the size of spark arrestor screen openings on masonry chimneys. The openings must not pass a sphere larger than half an inch and must not block a sphere smaller than three-eighths of an inch. That range keeps out birds, bats and squirrels while letting smoke through. Caps we install on masonry flues follow it. A screen with larger openings may look sturdier and still let bats and small birds slip through.
Telling attic noises from chimney noises
Sound travels through framing, so it is not always clear where an animal is. Noises that seem to come from inside the fireplace opening or from right above the damper usually mean the flue. Noises spread along the ceiling point to the attic. Our inspection looks at the chimney from the roof and from the firebox, which usually settles the question. Tell us exactly where in the room the sound seems loudest, since that helps us start in the right place.
When young animals are in the chimney
Young birds, bats or raccoons change the plan. Removing adults and leaving young behind, or sealing a chimney with young inside, leads to animals dying in the flue and an odor problem that follows. When young are present, the work waits for them to leave with the adults or is handled by a specialist. We confirm the chimney is empty before cleanup and capping. Young animals are also the reason the calendar matters so much in this work.
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Chimney animal questions from Winter Garden
Is the chimney work guaranteed?
Cleanup, sweeping and cap installation all carry our workmanship warranty, with our 100% satisfaction guarantee on top, and anything about the finished work that is not right, we come back to fix.
Do squirrels and raccoons fall under the same rules as bats?
No. Bats have a maternity season when exclusion is not allowed, and chimney swifts are protected while nesting. Other nuisance wildlife falls under Florida's general nuisance wildlife rule, which still limits the methods used and where a live animal may be released.
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