Boca Raton, FL · chimney sweeping
What catches fire is creosote. You won’t spot it from the room.
Your flue gets brushed from the firebox up to the cap. More often than soot, the trouble turns out to be one of two parts, so we check both: the cap on the roof and, at the base of the flue, the damper.
- Smoke drifting out into the room
- A damper you can’t shut anymore
- Wasps, leaves or nesting birds inside
- A hearth that has sat cold for years
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Why sweep it
What changes once the flue is clean.
In a Boca Raton house or condo, the ducts carry cooled air pushed by the air handler’s blower. A flue has no fan. Hot air rising is the only force lifting a fire’s smoke and gases out of a room where people are sitting, which makes a chimney its own job, not a duct that happens to hold soot.
The deposit that feeds a chimney fire
Smoke that didn’t burn completely cools on the inside of the flue, condenses and sets hard. That crust is creosote, and it is flammable: more than a stain, it is what’s burning when a chimney catches fire.
Smoke that goes up
Rising heat is all that moves smoke up a chimney. Once buildup narrows the flue, or a nest plugs it, smoke takes the shorter way out: through the fireplace opening and into your room.
The fault is often up at the cap
If the cap has rusted out or gone missing, rain, leaves and animals drop straight down the flue. Leave a chimney open like that for several Florida summers and the flue usually shows the damage. Your visit includes a look at the cap.
A damper that truly closes
The damper is the flue’s lid. Jammed open, it connects your living room straight to the sky, and conditioned air bleeds out through Boca Raton’s muggy stretch, April to December. Jammed shut, it gives the fire’s smoke no way out.
Sitting unused doesn’t keep it clean
Even January, Boca Raton’s coldest month, averages a low of 61°F. A fireplace here gets lit only a few evenings each year, and fires seldom wear a flue out. What we do find is whatever settled in while it sat cold: moisture, leaves, wasps and birds.
You see the debris first
Before any of it leaves your house, you see what we brushed down. The crew works that way on ducts already: reviewers say they were shown what the crew was doing.
How the visit runs
Five steps, hearth first and roof last.
Each step opens to show what you’ll see in the room that day. Unlike a duct cleaning, where the work follows your air handler and its runs, this visit begins indoors at your hearth and wraps up on the roof.
- First, the hearth gets coveredNobody touches the damper yet.
- Firebox and smoke chamber, up closeThe heaviest buildup sits here.
- The brush goes the whole way upNot just what you can reach.
- Up on the roof: cap and crownWork you can’t see from inside.
- Damper test, then what we foundIt must open, and it must seal.
Step 1 of 5
First, the hearth gets covered
Soot is a fine black powder, and it drifts. Before a single thing is opened, we cover the floor at your fireplace and the furniture close by, then seal our vacuum over the fireplace opening, so whatever falls down the flue is pulled into the equipment instead of your room. Every later step relies on getting this one right.
Step 2 of 5
Firebox and smoke chamber, up close
The flue tightens just over the fire and the gases lose speed there, so that is where deposit collects thickest. It is also where hidden faults show up, the kind you’d never notice from the sofa: a split panel in the firebox’s back wall, a joint that has lost its mortar, a ledge holding debris dropped from further up.
Step 3 of 5
The brush goes the whole way up
Ducking under the lintel shows you only the bottom of the flue; the brush runs its entire height. Creosote collects unevenly, heaviest at the bends and where the gases cool, which puts most of it in the upper half, and that stretch is beyond anything done from the hearth.
Step 4 of 5
Up on the roof: cap and crown
From the roof, three things get looked at: is there still a cap, is its screen whole, and are cracks in the crown sending rainwater down the inside of the flue? A bird’s nest, a single palm frond or a rusted-out cap can shut the flue off as thoroughly as heavy creosote, and you would see none of it from indoors.
Step 5 of 5
Damper test, then what we found
We work the damper through its full travel. One that won’t seal lets cooled air escape for as long as your AC is running; one that won’t open sends smoke into the room the first cool night you light a fire. Last, you see what came down and hear what we found, even when the honest answer is that your chimney needed nothing from us.
- 48,811
All Boca Raton homes
- 43%
Share built before 1980
- 6
Towns we cover
Our service area
Six towns, two counties.
Three towns in the south of Palm Beach County (Boca Raton, Delray Beach and Highland Beach) and three in Broward County: Deerfield Beach, Coconut Creek and Parkland. Open any town’s page for its Census housing counts, which show how old its homes are.
Our six towns, marked on a map of Palm Beach and Broward counties.
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- Boca Raton 48,811 homes
- Coconut Creek 27,155 homes
- Deerfield Beach 46,309 homes
- Delray Beach 36,997 homes
- Highland Beach 4,641 homes
- Parkland 11,316 homes
- Boca RatonNamed in 10 of the crew's Google posts
- Deerfield BeachNamed in 5 of the crew's Google posts
- Delray BeachNamed in 4 of the crew's Google posts
- Highland BeachNamed in 4 of the crew's Google posts
- Coconut CreekNamed in 3 of the crew's Google posts
- ParklandNamed in 2 of the crew's Google posts
Beyond the chimney
Other jobs, from attic runs to dryer lines.
Air duct cleaning
In a house or a condo: every register and return grille photographed with its cover off, then each run brushed and vacuumed down to the plenum and blower wheel.
Dryer vent cleaning
Your dryer line cleared from the drum connector out to the exterior cap, and the flapper tested before we go.
Chimney cleaning
You’re reading it: the whole flue brushed from firebox to cap, and the cap and damper looked over on the same trip.
Duct repair
Leaks sealed, loose runs reattached and damaged sections fixed, so conditioned air gets to every room.
Duct installation
New ductwork designed, sized to the home it serves and installed, so your AC can run at its most efficient.
Proof, not claims
What this page says, and what it leaves out.
We claim no chimney certification
This crew holds no sweeping certification, so you won’t see one here. What it does hold is a Florida air-conditioning licence and NADCA membership, and both concern ductwork; neither reaches a flue.
The services page lists both, with where each can be looked up.
A price before any work starts
The technician looks your chimney over at your home and quotes it there, before anything gets opened. You don’t have to book that day.
Reviewers write that the price was reasonable for the work.
You see what the brush brought down
Nothing that falls from the flue leaves your house until you have seen it. You also hear what we found up top, even if it isn’t work we could charge you for.
One reviewer was shown exactly what the crew was doing; another was shown a video of the inside.
Reviews, shown as a selection
The reviews on this site are a rotating selection of our newest five-star ratings, not a full transcript. The whole profile (every rating, not only the ones we show) is one click away on Google, through the link on our reviews page.
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Covers go down before anything opens
Fine black soot travels far. Your floor and nearby furniture are covered, and our vacuum is sealed over the opening, all before anyone touches the damper.
One review, of an air-vent job, describes the same containment: strong negative air, with no debris escaping to the living room.
100% satisfaction promise
When something isn’t right, we return and fix it. This promise is ours, not a badge issued by someone else, which makes it the only item here you have no way to look up.
How customers describe the crew at work.
A selection of our 5-star reviews on Google.
Had the staff conduct an air vent clean and dust bunnies stopped stacking up on our ceiling fan blades.
If someone asked me who to use for air duct cleaning, ld send them to this company. We had a really good experience.
Really appreciated the care they put into cleaning our air ducts. The guys were respectful, helpful, and did a really nice job.
Common questions
What people ask us about fireplaces.
Question not covered? Call (561) 652-6273 any day but Saturday, and a technician will go through it with you before anything is booked.
Send my questionWhat signs mean my chimney is due for a sweep?
Why is creosote a bigger concern than soot?
Does a rarely used Florida fireplace need sweeping?
Will you fix chimney damage, or just clean?
Is your crew certified as chimney sweeps?
Where does the crew sweep chimneys?
When did you last light it?
Three answers get us most of the way: the last time you had a fire, how the smoke behaved, and whether a cap still sits on top. We like to have those before a technician heads out to you.