Chimney Sweep in East Point, GA

Chimney Sweep for East Point Homeowners

East Point is the closest city to our base, and we are there constantly. The housing runs from 1920s cottages around Historic College Town through post-war building in Jefferson Park and Colonial Hills, and a great deal of it has changed hands recently as buyers priced out of intown moved south. That turnover is why so many of our East Point calls are inspections rather than sweeps: someone has bought a house with a fireplace nobody has used in a decade and wants to know whether it is safe before they light it. Frequently the answer involves a crown that has been quietly failing for years.

1920s cottages and post-war housing with high recent turnover; deferred crown and flashing maintenance is the common finding.

Wood smoke cools as it climbs, and what condenses on the way out is creosote — a black, tarry residue that hardens into a fuel lining the inside of your flue. Past about an eighth of an inch it will carry a fire, and a flue fire moves through a chimney in seconds. Atlanta makes this worse in its own way: nobody here burns steadily for four months, we burn hard for a fortnight in January and then abandon the fireplace until Thanksgiving. Cold masonry, damp masonry, smouldering fires and unseasoned oak all lay creosote down faster than steady daily burning would. Sweeping is the one piece of maintenance that removes the fuel rather than managing it.