Your chimney needs a yearly checkup.
We make it easy.

A full bottom-up rotary brush sweep of the flue, smoke shelf, damper, and firebox — plus a thorough inspection of every accessible part of the chimney and fireplace. That includes a camera scan of the flue interior and a look at the attic and roof when they're reachable. You get before-and-after photos and a written summary by email after the visit. Most homes are done in 60–90 minutes.

Only for service areas more than an hour from Omaha — those add a flat $50 to the visit. Anything inside roughly an hour of Omaha (greater Omaha, Bellevue, Papillion, La Vista, Ralston, Elkhorn, Millard, Bennington, Gretna, Council Bluffs) is the listed price with no travel fee. We'll always tell you up front before scheduling if travel applies.

No — tax is added on top of the listed price. We'll tell you the exact total before we start any work; no surprises at the end.

No. Real-estate Level 2 inspections are billed at the standard $199 inspection price. The same thorough camera-assisted inspection of every accessible part of the chimney, with a written report formatted for a transaction package and delivered within 24 hours.

NFPA 211 — the national fire code — calls for an annual inspection of every chimney, with cleaning whenever creosote, soot, or obstruction is found. For most wood-burning homeowners, that's one sweep a year. Heavy users may need it twice. Gas-only fireplaces typically stretch to every 2–3 years for sweeps but still need the annual inspection.

Yes. NFPA 211 Section 15.3 explicitly requires a Level 2 chimney inspection on any change of property ownership. The visual glance a standard home inspector does is a Level 1 at best, and it routinely misses cracked flue tiles, separated joints, or hidden creosote. Skip this and you may inherit (or sell) a $5,000–$15,000 problem.

No. We tarp the work area before any tools come inside, and our HEPA vacuums run negative-pressure throughout the sweep — pulling soot OUT of your firebox into our equipment, not into your room. Most customers are surprised at how clean it stays.

Yes. Gas burns cleaner than wood but still produces condensate, debris, and (in older liners) corrosion. Pair a gas sweep with a Level 1 inspection — that's what catches the issues you can't see from the firebox.

We document it with photos, explain what it means, and tell you whether it's something to monitor, schedule, or address before the next fire. Our core focus is sweeping and inspection — for bigger work like masonry or structural repair, we'll either talk through whether we can take it on directly or point you to a specialist we trust. No upselling, no scare tactics.

When it's safe to walk, yes — but most of our inspection is done from inside the firebox with a camera, which is often more thorough than a quick visual from the chimney cap. We don't walk slate, tile, plastic shake, or high-pitch metal roofs. Those carry real fall risk for us and can damage the roof material itself just by us walking on them. For those roof types, we inspect from a ladder at the rake edge or with a camera approach. You get the same quality of report either way.

Not a problem — we can do a complete sweep and inspection without it. Attic access just adds one viewpoint: chimney chase covers, the flue passage through the framing, and any visible heat or moisture damage. Without it, we rely on the camera scan from inside the flue, which catches the vast majority of issues anyway. We'll tell you if the missing attic view changes anything we'd recommend.