Chimney Sweep & Repair in Los Angeles

The NFPA standard is an inspection every twelve months and a cleaning whenever deposits warrant one. In practice, if you light fires through the cool months here, book a clean each autumn before the season starts. If the fireplace gets used three times a year, an inspection alone may be all you need, and we will say so rather than sell you a brush.

We do. The line is staffed every hour of every day, holidays included. Smoke pushing into a bedroom, or a flue that has gone up, cannot wait for opening time. Call (323) 990-9906 the moment it happens.

If the shaking was strong enough to notice, yes. NFPA 211 calls for a Level 2 inspection after a seismic event that could have affected the chimney, and unreinforced masonry stacks — which is most pre-war construction in this basin — are exactly what gets affected. Cracks can open inside the flue with nothing at all visible from the room.

Yes, annually. A gas set makes no creosote, but burner ports clog, pilot assemblies collect spider webbing over a long warm summer, glass films over and log positions drift. Sooting on a gas log is a combustion fault, not a cleaning problem, and it is worth attending to promptly.

About thirty miles from the shop on Punta Alta Drive, which reaches Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Culver City, Inglewood, the beach cities and out as far as Torrance. Not sure which side of the line you are on? Call and ask; it takes fifteen seconds to check.

Both, yes. We are licensed and insured, our technicians are CSIA certified, and you end the visit holding a photo record: each component's condition, what we advise and the thinking that led us there.