Local chimney sweep for Middleburg homes

Your Middleburg sweep sized to your flue, square heads for clay tile and soft bristles for stainless. Add a free inspection anytime.

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Local sweep experts for Middleburg fireplaces

Locally owned in Jacksonville
Family owned and operated
100% satisfaction guaranteed
Free inspection and estimate
Same-day service available
10% off when you book today

The smoke chamber and shelf are cleaned by hand, which is where much of the smell comes from.

No hidden feesThe sweep price for your Middleburg fireplace is set before the brush goes in, and it stays that way.
Same-day service availableA 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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Factory-built fireplaces and their manuals

Units with a steel firebox lined by refractory panels, topped by a round metal chimney, are factory-built, and each gets swept to its own manual. The maker names the brush type and sometimes the rod, and the chimney sections are checked for dents, rust and separated joints as the brush passes.

Refractory panels are looked at for the cracks the manual says call for a new panel. If a part needs replacing, it has to come from the maker's listed parts, and the note says so rather than suggesting a substitute. On every Middleburg visit to a unit like this, the model plate is read first, so the right manual is followed. Ready for a clean flue in Middleburg? Call (904) 920-5495 to book the sweep.

Middleburg is in Clay County. In the 2020 Census, Middleburg counted 12,881 residents.

What's Included

Sweeping work we handle in Middleburg

Hearth covered and a path laid to the door
Brush head cut to the shape of your tile or liner
Soot bagged and carried out of your Middleburg home
Written record of what the brushes found in Middleburg

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How It Works

How your Middleburg sweep goes

Room covered, opening sealed
Drop cloths go down, the fireplace opening is closed off and a filtered vacuum runs at it.
Flue brushed with a matched head
Rods carry a brush shaped and sized to your tile or liner up the full height, around any offset.
Damper and chamber walls scraped
The sloped walls, the smoke shelf and the damper plate are cleared by hand, with the shelf last.
Clean-up and a written note
Debris is bagged and carried out, and you get a note on the deposit and anything the brushes uncovered.

Local Conditions

Nests in Middleburg chimneys

An open flue is a nesting spot for birds and small animals. Chimney swifts nest in masonry flues and are protected while they do.

Before any brush goes into a flue in Middleburg, we check for signs of life, and an active nest waits for its season to end.

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Why a round brush fails in a square tile

Clay flue tile comes in square and rectangular shapes, and the corners are where deposit sits deepest, because smoke moves slowest there. A round brush in a square tile cleans a circle and leaves four stripes of creosote running the height of the flue.

The answer is a head cut to the tile's shape and size, with bristles long enough to reach into each corner under light pressure. For rectangular tile the head is matched to both dimensions, so it bears on the long walls as well as the short ones. Heads wear down, and a worn head stops reaching the corners, so each one is checked against the tile before the first pass.

A flue that nothing uses anymore

When an appliance is removed, its flue can stay behind, open at the top and forgotten. Nests, leaves and fallen tile collect in it with nobody watching, and water entering at the top works on the masonry around it.

A sweep brushes it and clears its base like any working flue. The record then offers two paths: fit a screened cap so the flue stays usable, or close the top with a cover that keeps rain out while still letting the masonry dry. Either beats an open, idle hole in the roof. If the idle flue shares a cap with a working one, both are handled on the same visit.

Getting a brush around an offset

Some flues change direction partway up, sloping sideways around a floor beam or a second fireplace. Stiff rods cannot turn that corner, so flexible rods carry the brush through the bend, and a sharp offset is worked from both ends so the brush meets in the middle.

The bend deserves a close look, since deposit settles on the low side of a sloped section and tile joints at a bend can open. The code allows a clay flue no more than 30 degrees from vertical (FBC R1003.12), and a steeper run than that goes on the record. An offset also catches falling debris at its low corner, which is cleared by hand from the smoke chamber side.

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Checked during a sweep in Middleburg

Cap screen cleared of soot and the cap reset square on the flue
Second and third flues in the stack brushed and labeled by use
Written record of tile, damper, crown and cap defects seen while cleaning
Factory-built chimney brushed with the tool its manual names

FAQ

Before the brushes go in

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.

Do you sweep factory-built fireplaces?

Yes, following the maker's manual for the brush and method. Damaged chimney sections are noted by part name, since those units are repaired with the maker's listed parts only.

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