- Serving Seattle, the Eastside, and South Sound
- Upfront pricing before any work starts
A wood fireplace is the heart of many older Seattle homes, and it needs the most care. We sweep, inspect, and repair wood-burning fireplaces and fireboxes, fix smoke and draft problems, and help you stay on the right side of Seattle’s burn rules.
Burn only dry, seasoned firewood. Wood stored under a tarp in Seattle rarely gets below 20 percent moisture, and wet wood is the main cause of creosote, smoke complaints, and poor heat. A cheap moisture meter pays for itself in one season.
Open wood fireplaces cannot be used during Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Stage 1 or Stage 2 burn bans, which are called several times most winters when cold, still air traps smoke. If you want to burn during a Stage 1 ban, an EPA-certified insert is the path.
Sweeping and inspection are fixed-price services. Firebox and damper repairs are quoted per item after we see the fireplace. Smoke problems are diagnosed first, because the fix ranges from a new cap to a flue resize and we do not guess.
Usually one of four things: a cold flue that needs warming before lighting, a damper not fully open, a flue too small for the firebox opening, or a tight house where exhaust fans pull air down the chimney. A visit tells us which.
Yes. Households with no other adequate heat source are exempt in both stages. Most Seattle homes have furnaces or heat pumps, so the exemption rarely applies.
Off the ground, top covered, sides open to air, for at least one summer. Wood delivered as seasoned in October often is not.
