Chimney Sweep in Jonesboro, GA

Chimney Sweep for Jonesboro Homeowners

Jonesboro's historic centre includes housing that predates the Civil War, and working on chimneys of that age is a different discipline — hand-formed brick, lime mortar, flues that were never lined because liners did not exist when they were built. Those homes deserve care and quite often deserve to be told that the safest answer is a stainless liner rather than trying to restore a flue to a standard it never met. The subdivisions further out toward Lake Spivey are conventional late-twentieth-century construction and much more routine. Knowing which you are dealing with before quoting matters more here than most places.

Pre-Civil War and Victorian masonry with unlined flues in the historic core; conventional late-century construction in the surrounding subdivisions.

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.