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Chimney & duct · Connecticut

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Chimney sweeping, inspection and repair — plus air duct and dryer vent cleaning. One company, both systems, no waiting until Monday.
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What's happening at your house?

Most people don’t know what the repair is called. Start with what you’ve noticed — here’s what it usually turns out to be, and what we do about it.
Smoke comes into the room
Usually A blocked or undersized flue, a damper that won't open fully, or a chimney that ends too low for the roofline around it.
What we do Camera the flue, clear the blockage, free or replace the damper. If it's a height problem, we extend the chimney so it clears the roof properly.
A stain on the ceiling beside the chimney
Usually A cracked crown or failed flashing at the roof line. Water has been getting in for a while by the time it shows on plaster.
What we do Trace the entry point, then recrown, reflash or repoint as needed — and waterproof the masonry so it stops soaking up the next storm.
Brick is flaking off the outside
Usually Freeze-thaw damage. Saturated brick freezes, expands and pops its own face off. Connecticut does this dozens of times a winter.
What we do Cut out and replace the spalled brick, repoint the open joints, and fix whatever was letting the water in above it.
Smoke comes into the room
Usually A blocked or undersized flue, a damper that won't open fully, or a chimney that ends too low for the roofline around it.
What we do Camera the flue, clear the blockage, free or replace the damper. If it's a height problem, we extend the chimney so it clears the roof properly.
Smoke comes into the room
Usually A blocked or undersized flue, a damper that won't open fully, or a chimney that ends too low for the roofline around it.
What we do Camera the flue, clear the blockage, free or replace the damper. If it's a height problem, we extend the chimney so it clears the roof properly.
Smoke comes into the room
Usually A blocked or undersized flue, a damper that won't open fully, or a chimney that ends too low for the roofline around it.
What we do Camera the flue, clear the blockage, free or replace the damper. If it's a height problem, we extend the chimney so it clears the roof properly.
Smoke comes into the room
Usually A blocked or undersized flue, a damper that won't open fully, or a chimney that ends too low for the roofline around it.
What we do Camera the flue, clear the blockage, free or replace the damper. If it's a height problem, we extend the chimney so it clears the roof properly.
Smoke comes into the room
Usually A blocked or undersized flue, a damper that won't open fully, or a chimney that ends too low for the roofline around it.
What we do Camera the flue, clear the blockage, free or replace the damper. If it's a height problem, we extend the chimney so it clears the roof properly.
Not sure which one it is? Describe what you’ve noticed on the phone and we’ll tell you what we think it is before we come out.
Talk it through with us
What we do

Two systems, done properly. Not one plus an upsell.

Chimneys and ducts both move air through your house and both fail quietly. Plenty of companies do one and treat the other as an add-on. We run each side with its own kit, its own training and its own standard.
The flue side

Chimney services

Sweeping, inspection, repair and relining for fireplaces, wood stoves, inserts and heating flues — masonry and factory-built.

Chimney cleaning & sweeping

The flue, the smoke chamber, the smoke shelf and the firebox — not just the easy part. Dust sheets down, vacuum running, nothing left on your carpet.

Rotary tooling
Glazed creosote
HEPA vacuum

Chimney inspection

Level 1, 2 and 3. You're told which level you're getting and why, and you get the written report and the footage either way.

Camera scan
Written report
Photos included

Chimney repair & rebuilds

Crowns, caps, flashing, repointing, spalled brick and full above-roof rebuilds. Colour-matched brick and mortar so the repair doesn't announce itself.

Recrowning
Repointing
Flashing
Rebuilds

Chimney relining

Stainless liners for cracked tile, oversized flues and new high-efficiency appliances. Sized to the appliance, not to whatever's on the van.

Stainless
Insulated
Appliance-sized

Leak & water damage repair

Finding where the water actually gets in before selling you a fix. Crown, cap, flashing, mortar or the brick itself — they need different answers.

Leak tracing
Waterproofing

Fireplace, stove & insert service

Wood, gas and pellet appliances and the venting behind them, including factory-built units where the manufacturer's own parts are the only correct fix.

Wood
Gas
Pellet
Factory-built

What that takes

  • Flue camera on every inspection above Level 1, so you see what we see
  • Rotary tooling for glazed creosote a brush won't touch
  • Roof access and staging for work above the roof line
  • Liner stock in multiple diameters, sized to your appliance
The air side

Duct & dryer vent

The other half of the business, run to its own standard — with the right machines, not a shop vac and a brush.

Air duct cleaning

Supply lines, return lines, every register and the air handler itself. Cleaning the branches and leaving the handler dirty just recontaminates the system.

Negative air
Whole system
Before/after

Dryer vent cleaning

Lint removed along the whole run, not just the first few feet from the machine. Airflow checked at the end so you know it actually worked.

Full run
Airflow tested

Dryer vent repair & rerouting

Crushed duct behind the machine, disconnected runs venting into a crawlspace, and vents that are simply too long for any dryer to clear.

Rigid duct
Rerouting
Roof & wall terms

Duct inspection

Camera survey first, so you can see whether your ducts need cleaning before you pay for it. Sometimes the honest answer is that they don't.

Camera survey
No-clean answer

Duct sealing & repair

Leaking joints and disconnected runs in attics and crawlspaces — the reason one room never gets warm and the bill keeps climbing.

Joint sealing
Reconnection

Range hood & bathroom exhaust

Kitchen and bathroom exhaust that's stopped pulling — usually grease-packed, disconnected, or terminating somewhere it shouldn't.

Grease removal
Termination check

What that takes

  • Negative-air machine so debris leaves the house instead of moving around it
  • Rotary brush and whip lines for the full length of a duct run
  • Duct camera, so "it needed doing" isn't something you take on trust
  • Airflow measurement before and after, on every dryer vent
Inspections

There are three levels. You should know which one you're getting.

The national standard for chimneys (NFPA 211) defines three inspection levels with different scopes. Which one you need depends on your situation, not on what’s easiest to sell. Here’s the difference, so you can ask for the right one.

Level 1

The yearly check

For a fireplace or appliance you’re using the same way you always have, with nothing changed.
  • Readily accessible parts, inside and out
  • Appliance and its connection
  • Structure sound, flue clear of blockages and creosote

Level 2

When something has changed

Everything in a Level 1, plus a camera down every flue and a look at the parts you can’t normally see.
  • Attic, crawlspace and basement runs
  • Camera scan of the flue interior
  • Clearances to wood framing where reachable

Level 3

The yearly check

For a fireplace or appliance you’re using the same way you always have, with nothing changed.
  • Readily accessible parts, inside and out
  • Appliance and its connection
  • Structure sound, flue clear of blockages and creosote
Every inspection we do comes with the written report and the camera footage, whichever level it is. You keep both.
Buying or selling in Connecticut

A house changing hands is the one time a chimney inspection isn't optional.

When a property transfers, the standard calls for a Level 2 inspection — camera down every flue, not just a look at the firebox. A general home inspector isn’t equipped to do it, and “the chimney appeared serviceable” isn’t a report a buyer or an attorney can rely on.
Separately, Connecticut law requires the seller to give the buyer a signed affidavit at closing about smoke and carbon monoxide alarms. There’s an exemption for homes with no fuel-burning appliance, fireplace or attached garage — so if the house has a fireplace, the exemption doesn’t apply to you.
We turn Level 2 reports around fast, with photos and video, in a format your agent and attorney can hand straight to the other side.
Book a Level 2 inspection

When a Level 2 is called for

  • The property is being sold or transferred
  • You're changing fuel — wood to gas, oil to gas
  • A new furnace, boiler, stove or insert went in
  • The flue is being relined or resized
  • After a chimney fire or a suspected one
  • After a storm, lightning or any impact
  • The fireplace has started behaving differently

Realtors and closing attorneys: we hold slots for transaction work.

Before you book anything

Do you have a masonry chimney or a factory-built one?

It matters more than people realise. They’re repaired in completely different ways, and a masonry repair done to a factory-built system is a safety problem, not just a waste of money. We work on both — here’s how to tell which one you’ve got.
Type one

Fireplace, stove & insert service

Built on site out of brick or stone, with clay tile lining the flue. Common in Connecticut homes built before the 1970s, and in newer custom builds.

How to tell

Real brick or stone all the way up, a concrete slab on top, firebrick inside the firebox.

What fails first

The crown cracks and lets water in. Then mortar joints, brick faces and flue tiles.

What we do about it

Recrown, repoint, replace spalled brick, rebuild above the roof, or reline in stainless.

Type Two

Factory-built

A metal fireplace and metal chimney inside a framed box that's often sided or veneered to look like brick from the street. Very common in Connecticut homes built from the 1970s on.

How to tell

A metal label inside the firebox, a metal cover on top, and "brick" that's a thin skin over framing.

What fails first

The metal chase cover rusts through and pools water into the framing below.

What we do about it

Fit the manufacturer's own listed parts — new chase covers, terminations and firebox components. Mixing brands voids the listing, so we don't.

Why Connecticut is hard on chimneys

A chimney here fails on the calendar, not on how often you light a fire.

Water gets into a hairline crack, freezes, expands and takes a piece of the masonry with it. Then it thaws and does it again. Connecticut runs through that cycle dozens of times a winter, and along the shoreline there’s salt air on top of it.
Which is why “we barely use it” isn’t a reason to skip a look. An unused chimney takes exactly the same weather as a busy one.
  • Crown Cracks first, and lets water into everything below it
  • Brick face Flakes and delaminates once it's saturated
  • Mortar Opens up at the joints and needs repointing
  • Flue tile Cracks and shifts from moisture and heat cycling
  • Chase cover Rusts through on factory-built chimneys
  • Flashing Lifts at the roof line and leaks into the ceiling

Why homeowners call us back

365

Open every day

Including weekends and through the winter, when everyone else is booked out three weeks.

A price before we start

You get the number in writing before any work begins. No surprises in the driveway.

Photos of what we found

Every job comes with pictures of the problem and the repair, so you're not taking our word for it.

Both systems, one visit

Chimney and dryer vent handled on the same call instead of two companies and two days off work.

★★★★★

“The technician arrived on time, explained everything clearly and left the area cleaner than expected.”

Connecticut Homeowner

Hartford

★★★★★

“Very professional service from start to finish. Scheduling was easy and the work was done carefully.”

Connecticut Homeowner

 New Haven

★★★★★

“Great experience. The technician answered all our questions and completed the chimney cleaning efficiently.”

Connecticut Homeowner

 Fairfield

Where we work

If your town is not on the list, call us anyway. We often travel a little further when we already have a job nearby.
Stamford
Bridgeport
New Haven
Hartford
Norwalk
Danbury
Greenwich
Fairfield
Hamden
Waterbury
New Britain
Milford
Common questions

What homeowners ask us most

How often should a chimney be inspected in Connecticut?
The national standard for chimneys, NFPA 211, calls for an inspection at least once a year, whatever the fuel and however often the fireplace or appliance is used. This is an industry standard of care rather than a Connecticut statute. Connecticut’s freeze-thaw cycling damages masonry regardless of use, so an unused chimney still deteriorates on the same schedule as a busy one.
A Level 1 inspection covers readily accessible parts of the chimney and appliance and confirms the flue is clear and the structure sound. A Level 2 adds accessible attic, crawlspace and basement runs, checks clearances to combustible framing, and includes a camera scan of the interior of every flue. A Level 2 is called for when a property is sold, when the fuel or appliance changes, when a flue is relined, and after a chimney fire or severe weather event.
NFPA 211 calls for a Level 2 inspection whenever a property is sold or transferred. Separately, Connecticut law requires the seller to give the buyer a signed affidavit at closing regarding smoke and carbon monoxide detection. The exemption from carbon monoxide equipment applies only where a property has no fuel-burning appliance, fireplace or attached garage, so a home with a fireplace does not qualify for it.
Connecticut does not issue a chimney sweep licence. Chimney repair work such as cap installation, liner replacement and mortar replacement requires registration as a Home Improvement Contractor with the Department of Consumer Protection. Registration status can be checked by business name at eLicense.ct.gov. CSIA certification is a voluntary industry credential rather than a legal requirement.
A masonry chimney is brick or stone built on site with a clay tile flue liner, topped by a concrete crown, with firebrick inside the firebox. A factory-built chimney is a metal fireplace and metal chimney inside a framed chase, usually with a metal chase cover on top, a listing label inside the firebox, and brick that is a thin veneer over framing. The two are repaired in completely different ways, and factory-built systems must be repaired with the manufacturer’s own listed components.
Often, yes. A high-efficiency appliance vents cooler and wetter exhaust than the unit it replaced, and that acidic condensate deteriorates clay tile and unlined masonry flues. Fitting an appliance of a dissimilar type or input rating is also one of the conditions under which NFPA 211 calls for a Level 2 inspection, so the flue should be assessed and, where required, relined to the correct size and material for the new appliance.

Book it before the cold sets in

Sweeps and inspections fill up from September. Call now and pick your day.
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