About Us

You call or book online, we give you a two-hour arrival window, and we call when we're on the way. Before anyone touches the fireplace, we look at what you have and tell you what the visit will cost. If the scope changes once we're up on the roof or inside the firebox, we stop and tell you then, not on the invoice. The crew lays drop cloths from the door to the hearth, runs a vacuum at the firebox opening the whole time, and takes the debris with them. Most visits take under an hour and a half.

Around Westlake Village and the Conejo corridor, the burning season is short. Sixty to a hundred fires a year in a heavy-use home, far fewer in most, so creosote is usually light and sweeping is rarely the real issue. If your flue doesn't need brushing yet, we say so and charge you for the inspection instead. The work that actually matters here is what the weather and the air do to the outside of the system. Ventura County APCD and SCAQMD rules discourage wood-burning on poor-air days, and new construction in California has long been required to use gas or EPA-certified appliances rather than open-hearth wood, so a large share of local hearths are gas log sets, sealed gas inserts, or factory-built metal fireboxes with Class A double-wall or triple-wall chimney vented through a framed stucco chase. Those chases rust at the cover, pond water, and crack at the crown. Salt-laden marine air coming inland on the onshore flow eats galvanized caps and chase tops faster than people expect. After a winter of atmospheric-river rain we get flashing-failure calls and ceiling-stain calls all spring. We also pull birds and nesting material out of flues with missing or damaged caps, and we check that your spark arrestor screen is intact and serviceable, which matters when Santa Ana winds are carrying embers across a high wildfire-severity landscape.

We bring a rod-and-brush set sized to your flue, a HEPA vacuum, drop cloths, and a camera so we can show you the inside of the liner instead of describing it. For gas work we bring manometers, cleaning tools for burner ports and pilot assemblies, and parts for common Heatilator, Heat & Glo, Majestic, Napoleon, Superior, and Empire units. We service open masonry fireplaces, sealed gas inserts, and factory-built prefabs, including the 30- to 40-year-old units around here with cracked refractory panels and warped dampers. We sweep, we run chimney inspections, and we handle caps, liners, flues, and fireboxes through chimney repair, plus pilot, valve, and burner issues under gas fireplace repair. We do not do masonry or brickwork, and we'll tell you plainly when that's what you need. On cost, what moves the number on a sweep is the appliance type and the access: a single straight masonry flue you can reach from a walkable roof is the low end, a sealed insert that has to come out and go back in takes longer, and a steep tile roof or a three-story chase adds setup time before any brushing happens. Two flues in one house cost less together than two separate trips.