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The standard answer is once a year. The honest answer depends on what you burn, how you burn it, and a quirk of the Los Angeles burning season that catches people out.
Read Article: How Often Does a Los Angeles Chimney Really Need Sweeping?
A masonry chimney is a tall, heavy, brittle column attached to a building that moves differently than it does. That is the whole problem in one sentence.
Read Article: What an Earthquake Does to a Chimney, and How to Tell
A general home inspection tells you a chimney exists and looks broadly upright. It does not tell you what is inside the flue, and that is where the expensive answers live.
Read Article: The Chimney Inspection Nobody Orders Until Escrow Is Closing
Every year, on the first genuinely cold evening, the phone starts. The fireplace worked fine last season and now the pilot will not catch. There is usually one reason.
Read Article: Why Your Gas Fireplace Will Not Light on the First Cold NightHomeowners across Los Angeles keep our number in their phone for a reason. The line is answered around the clock — call and speak to someone who does this work.
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