Chimney sweep in Brentwood by local pros

Soot and flaky creosote out, nests and leaves cleared, and a free inspection of anything the sweep turns up at your Brentwood home.

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Locally owned in Jacksonville
Family owned and operated
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Same-day service available
10% off any service

Factory-built fireplaces in Brentwood are swept the way their maker's manual says, brush and all.

No hidden feesThe sweep price for your Brentwood fireplace is set before the brush goes in, and it stays that way.
Same-day serviceA sweep can happen the same day you call, whenever the schedule has an opening.
100% satisfaction guaranteedIf the room is not left as clean as we found it, we come back and clean it.

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What comes into the house

Inside, the kit is small: cloths and a pad for the hearth, a vacuum built for fine dust, a set of rods, brush heads matched to your flue, hand scrapers for the smoke chamber, and a work light. Ladders and roof gear stay outside.

Nothing is set on furniture, and the path from the door is covered where the rods and bags travel. When the visit ends the same kit leaves the same way, and what stays behind in your Brentwood home is the written record on the counter. Anything that has touched the flue is bagged before it crosses the floor. Let us know at (904) 920-5495 when the Brentwood fireplace was last used.

Brentwood is a neighborhood inside Jacksonville city limits. The county for Brentwood is Duval County.

Sweep work we do in Brentwood

Smoke shelf cleared of soot, leaves and twigs
Damper plate and frame cleaned until it seats
Glazed deposit noted when a brush cannot lift it
Soot bagged and carried out of your Brentwood home

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From drop cloth to written record in Brentwood

Room covered, flue checked
The hearth is covered, the opening sealed around the vacuum, and the flue checked for nests or animals.
Flue brushed to its shape
A head cut to your tile or liner is run the full height, and the smoke chamber is scraped by hand.
Shelf, damper and cap cleaned
The smoke shelf is cleared, the damper made to seat, and the cap screen brushed from the roof.
Bagged out and written up
Soot leaves in tied bags, and you get a record of what came out and anything we saw.

Flues that nobody uses in Brentwood

A flue left behind after an appliance was removed stays open at the top and collects nests, leaves and fallen tile with nobody watching.

When your Brentwood chimney has an idle flue, the sweep looks at it too, and the record says whether to cap it or clean it.

10% off any service booked within 72 hours of inspection

In Brentwood, a sweep gets the same 10% off as a repair.

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Cleaning an insert without pulling it

A fireplace insert can be swept where it sits when a stainless liner runs from its collar to the top of the chimney. The brush works down from the top, and the deposit falls back into the insert or into a catch at the base, where it is emptied.

NFPA 211 accepts that approach when the venting can be cleaned thoroughly in place. If the insert vents into the old flue through a short pipe, or its connection is out of sight and reach, it comes out so the smoke chamber and the connection can be cleaned and seen. The booking call settles which case you have.

One cap over several flues

Some chimneys carry a single wide cap spanning two or three flue openings. It has to come off to brush any of them, and while it is off, each flue tile is checked at the top for cracks and missing mortar.

The cap's legs or band are examined where they meet the crown, since fasteners rust and a loose cap can lift in wind. Going back, it sits square with its screen continuous on every side. A gap under one edge is an open door for birds and leaves, and it gets closed before the ladder comes down. Caps of this kind are sized to the crown, so the record gives the crown's outside measurements too.

Emptying the base of a lined flue

A flue that serves a stove or furnace may end below the connection in a clean-out door or a tee with a removable cap. Everything brushed down collects there. It is opened, emptied into a bag, and its seal checked before it closes again, since a clean-out that leaks lets room air into the flue and throws off the draft.

A base packed with old debris shows the flue has gone a while without a sweep, and the record notes how full it was. A door rusted shut is freed rather than forced, and a warped one goes on the repair list.

What the sweep record notes

Stove connector taken down, brushed and refastened with the correct pitch
Nesting material and leaves removed once the flue is confirmed empty
Second and third flues in the stack brushed and labeled by use
Written record of tile, damper, crown and cap defects seen while cleaning

Sweep questions from Brentwood

How long is the fireplace out of use after a sweep?

Only until we pack up. A small first fire that evening is fine unless the record says otherwise, for example when glaze or a cracked tile was found.

Can you sweep if the roof is steep?

Yes, from the firebox with rods pushed up the flue. The top is then looked at from the safest point available, and the record says what could not be seen up close.