Protect Your Home from Dangerous Buildup
Even a thin layer of creosote buildup—just 1/8 inch—can reduce stove efficiency and pose a serious fire hazard, making regular chimney cleaning and inspections essential to protect your home and family each heating season.
Prevent Animal Blockages with Annual Inspections and Cleanings
Animals are another reason to keep up with annual inspections and chimney sweepings. Birds, squirrels, raccoons, and other animals may have decided to nest in your chimney since you last used it. Not only do animals bring flammable fur, feathers, nesting materials, bugs, and feces in with them, but they create a blockage in the flue or get stuck in the chimney and die. An annual inspection and cleaning of your chimney system will help ensure that no animals are making their way into your chimney, and that if they have, everything is removed for your safety and the safety of your chimney system.
What Happens During A Chimney Sweeping Appointment?
During a typical pre-season chimney sweeping and inspection, your Black Moose chimney sweep will:
Use drop cloths and air filtration to keep everything clean
Clean your flue from top to bottom (For masonry-lined flues, we will video scan your flue after cleaning)
Remove and inspect your stove pipe connector
Clean, service, and check over your stove or insert
Take multiple digital pictures to ensure everything is well documented
Provide you with a report at the end on the condition of your chimney
Professional Chimney Cleaning
Our Granite State chimney sweep services focus on two primary areas of the chimney cleaning process:
Remove creosote
Creosote forms whenever fires burn in your fireplace. Sticky and highly flammable, creosote is responsible for most chimney fires in the U.S. each year. We use special brushes, scrapers and vacuums to protect your chimney from this dangerous substance.
Remove obstructions
Chimneys tend to collect various debris, which can create an air-flow obstruction in your flue. Things like leaves and twigs from nearby trees, small-animal nests and even the small animals themselves can block the draft and send smoke and toxins back into the home.
As a recognized leading chimney sweep in south-central New Hampshire, Black Moose holds membership with the National Chimney Sweep Guild and the Northeast Association of Chimney & Hearth Professionals. Our technicians are certified by the Chimney Safety Institute of America, the most respected certifying body for chimney professionals in the United States.
Request Your Chimney Sweeping Appointment Today!
Our experts will ensure your chimney crown is beautiful, functional, and protects your home for years to come.
Testimonials
Happy Clients, Happy Homes
But recently, we had an emergency situation at our home involving our chimney & oil furnace flue, which was caked full of soot from a malfunctioning furnace. They came & cleaned out both flues in no time, even going up on the roof with snow on it! They cleaned up after their work in the interior rooms where the oil furnace and the woodstove are located. Great work. Reasonable prices. Very nice people. You can’t go wrong with Black Moose.
Others: Communications could be more effective. Despite early coordination about scope of work (multiple flues within same chimney) the estimate provided did not reflect this and the final invoice was significantly more than the estimate provided.
Quote for follow-on chimney relining was significantly more than that offered by other companies in the area (and far more than neighbors experienced for similar work accomplished by other companies)
