The black head of a cleaning tool entering a dust-coated flexible duct, its ribbed walls spiralling away into darkness
A brush inside a duct, not a flue: every photograph on this site is this crew's own work, and none of them is of a chimney.

Chimney cleaning — Fort Lauderdale, FL

Creosote is the part that burns. It is also the part nobody sees.

We sweep the flue from the firebox to the cap, and check the two things that turn out to be the real fault more often than the soot does: the cap on top and the damper at the bottom.

  • Smoke coming back into the room
  • A damper that no longer closes
  • Birds, wasps or leaves in the flue
  • A fireplace nobody has opened in years

5.0 from 13 Google reviews

Sun–Thu 7 AM–8 PM · Fri 7 AM–6 PM · Sat closed

  • Florida licensed

    AC contractor CAC1822067

  • Business hours

    Sun–Thu 7 AM–8 PM · Fri 7 AM–6 PM · Sat closed

  • Same or next day

    Scheduling that fits your week

  • 5.0★

    13 Google reviews

Why it matters

What a swept flue actually changes.

A chimney is not a duct with soot in it. A duct moves conditioned air; a flue carries the products of a fire out of a room people are sitting in, and it does that on nothing but the pull of hot air rising.

  • Creosote is the fuel, not the dirt

    Unburnt smoke condenses on the walls of a flue and hardens there. It is not soot's ugly cousin: it is a flammable deposit, and it is the thing that is alight in a chimney fire.

  • A flue that draws

    A fire vents on hot air rising and nothing else. Narrow the flue with deposit, or block it with a nest, and the smoke takes the easier route — back through the opening, into the room.

  • The cap is often the real fault

    A missing or rusted cap lets rain, leaves and animals straight in, and a chimney that has stood open through a few Florida summers usually shows it. Checking it is part of the visit.

  • The damper has to seal

    A damper is the lid on the flue. Stuck open, it is a hole from your living room to the sky that leaks conditioned air all summer; stuck shut, the fire has nowhere to send its smoke.

  • An unused chimney is not a clean one

    A Florida fireplace is lit a handful of evenings a year, so a flue here is rarely worn out by use. It is what moves in while it sits idle — damp, leaves, wasps, birds — that we find.

  • You see what comes out

    What comes down the flue is brought out and shown to you before it leaves, the way this crew already works on a duct: one reviewer describes how much dust came out of theirs.

The visit, step by step

Five steps, in the order the smoke travels.

Tap a step to see what happens in the room on the day. A chimney visit is not a duct visit with different nouns: it starts at the hearth, inside your house, and it finishes on the roof.

  1. The hearth is covered firstBefore the damper is touched.
  2. The firebox and the smoke chamberWhere the deposit is thickest.
  3. The flue is swept its full heightNot an arm's reach up.
  4. The cap and the crown, from the roofThe half of the job that is outside.
  5. The damper, then what we tell youIt has to open, and it has to close.

Step 1 of 5

The hearth is covered first

Soot is fine, black and it travels. The floor in front of the fireplace and whatever stands near it are covered before anything is opened, and the opening itself is sealed to the vacuum so that what comes down the flue goes into our equipment rather than into the room. Everything after this step depends on having done it first.

Step 2 of 5

The firebox and the smoke chamber

Straight above the fire, where the flue narrows and the gases slow down, is where the heaviest build-up sits. It is also where the faults nobody can see from an armchair turn up: a cracked panel at the back of the firebox, mortar gone from a joint, a shelf carrying debris that has fallen from higher up.

Step 3 of 5

The flue is swept its full height

The brush travels the whole height of the flue rather than the part you can see by ducking under the lintel. Creosote does not lie evenly: it builds where the flue bends and where it cools, which is the upper half — exactly the length that nothing anyone does from the hearth will ever reach.

Step 4 of 5

The cap and the crown, from the roof

The top is checked from the roof: whether the cap is there at all, whether its screen is intact, whether the crown around it has cracked and is letting water run down the flue. A nest, a palm frond or a cap rusted through is a blockage as complete as any amount of creosote, and none of it is visible from the room below.

Step 5 of 5

The damper, then what we tell you

The damper is worked open and shut. A lid that will not seal costs you conditioned air every hour of a Florida summer; one that will not open fills the room with smoke on the first cold evening. Then you are shown what came out and told what we found — including when what we found is that the chimney did not need us.

  • 5.0

    Average rating on the Google profile

    Counted from the 13 reviews saved off the Fort Lauderdale profile, not read off the star display.

  • 101,234

    Homes in Fort Lauderdale

    ACS 2023 five-year estimates, tables B25034 / B25024 / B25003 / B25077.

  • 66%

    Of them built before 1980

    Same ACS tables — the older stock is where a masonry fireplace is likeliest to be.

  • 12

    Towns on the route

    Each one has its own page, with its own housing numbers.

Where we work

Chimney work across twelve towns.

Fort Lauderdale and eleven towns around it, all in Broward County. Each town has its own page, with the housing numbers that say how old its building stock is.

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Broward County, with the towns we serve picked out.

Broward County, with the towns we serve picked out.

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Housing counts are American Community Survey 2023 five-year estimates.

Checkable, not claimed

What we will and will not put on this page.

  • No chimney certification claimed

    No sweeping certification appears here because this crew holds none. Its NADCA membership and its Florida air-conditioning licence are both about ductwork, and neither one covers a flue.

    Both are on the services page, with where to check each.

  • The quote comes before the work

    A chimney is quoted in your home, once the technician has looked at it and before anything is opened, with no obligation to book on the day.

    One reviewer calls the service honest.

  • You are shown what came out

    What comes down the flue is brought out and shown to you before it leaves the house, and you are told what we found up there whether or not it is something we can sell you.

    One reviewer describes how much dust the crew pulled out.

  • Every Google review, all five stars

    5.0 from 13 reviews on the Fort Lauderdale profile, every one of them five stars. None of them describes a chimney, and all of them sit on our reviews page.

    Counted from the saved profile, never derived from the average.

  • The room is covered before anything opens

    Soot is fine, black and it travels. The floor and whatever stands near it are covered, and the opening is sealed to the vacuum, before the damper is touched.

    One reviewer says the crew left everything clean when they finished.

  • 100% satisfaction promise

    If something is not right, we come back and make it right. It is our own promise rather than a third party's badge — the one line on this grid you cannot look up.

On the Google profile

What people say about how this crew works.

Read every review
“They explained everything clearly, worked efficiently”

“Amazing experience from start to finish. The team was professional, on time, and did an incredible job cleaning our air ducts. You could immediately notice the difference in air quality afterward. They explained everything clearly, worked efficiently, and left everything clean when they finished. Highly recommend to anyone looking for honest and quality service. Definitely a 5-star company!”

Dumitri William
“did a thorough job cleaning”

“Great experience from start to finish. The team was professional and did a thorough job cleaning. The house feels fresher, highly recommend!”

Matthew Jones
“spent about an hour here going through everything”

“Just had my air ducts cleaned and wow, the amount of dust they pulled out was crazy! Like, it felt like they could've filled a small trash bag. My allergies have already started to chill out. The tech was super friendly and spent about an hour here going through everything. So glad I finally did this!”

max katz
“Very professional service”

“My husband and I truly appreciate all that you have done for us. Very professional service and I would 10/10 recommend anybody for this service.”

Wendy Torres
“Clean, Professional team”

“Clean, Professional team. Very happy with the results”

David Nagel
“cleaning my air ducts quickly and easily”

“Thank you so much for cleaning my air ducts quickly and easily great job”

Adam Zahoran

Before you call

The questions we get about chimneys.

Not answered here? Call (561) 944-9403 and a technician will talk it through before anyone books anything.

Ask us directly
How do I know the chimney needs sweeping?
The usual signs are smoke drifting back into the room instead of up the flue, a smell of old fire on a humid day, grit or debris appearing on the hearth when nobody has lit it, birds or wasps audible above the damper, and a damper that no longer moves freely. Any one of them is worth a look before you light it rather than after.
What is creosote, and why does it matter more than soot?
Creosote is unburnt wood smoke that condensed on the cool walls of the flue and hardened there. Soot is a residue; creosote is a fuel. It is the deposit that is alight in a chimney fire, and it builds where the flue bends and where it cools — the upper half, which is the part you cannot see or reach from the hearth. That is why a sweep is about removing it rather than about making the firebox look tidy.
Does a fireplace in Florida really need this?
It needs it for a different reason than one up north. A flue lit a handful of evenings a year is rarely worn out by use — what we find instead is what moved in while it sat idle: damp, leaves and palm debris, wasp and bird nests, a cap rusted through, a damper seized in one position. If we look and find none of that, we will say so rather than sweep a clean flue.
Do you repair a chimney, or only clean it?
The visit is a cleaning, plus an inspection of what can be reached and seen: the firebox, the smoke chamber, the flue, the damper, and the cap and crown from the roof. If we find cracked masonry, a failed crown or anything structural, you are told what it is and shown it where we can show you — we are not going to quote you masonry work off the back of a sweep.
Are you certified to sweep chimneys?
No, and we are not going to print a badge we do not hold. What this company can evidence — its NADCA membership and a Florida air-conditioning contractor licence — is about ductwork rather than flues, and neither one covers a chimney. What we bring to the job is the containment, the brushes and a way of working the reviews on our Google profile call professional and thorough.
Which towns do you cover?
Fort Lauderdale and the towns around it in Broward County — Deerfield Beach, Pompano Beach, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Oakland Park, Wilton Manors, Lauderhill, Sunrise, Plantation, Davie, Dania Beach and Hollywood.

Book the chimney visit

Tell us when it was last lit.

When you last used it, what the smoke did, and whether there is still a cap on top. Those three answers are most of what we need before anyone leaves the yard.

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(561) 944-9403