Looking After Los Angeles Chimneys and Fireplaces
Ask About Your Los Angeles Fireplace
Send your name, number and what the fireplace is doing. We call back, set a Los Angeles visit and tell you what we will look at first.
The Los Angeles streets we work on
Houses here run from Craftsman and Spanish houses in Echo Park and Highland Park, hillside homes on Mount Washington, and newer houses with factory-built fireplaces. If your street sits on the edge of one of these places, tell us when you call and we will plan the visit around it.
Fireplace Care to Book in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles, start with a sweep and a Level 2 camera inspection if the house is older and the chimney has no record.
Chimney Sweep in Los Angeles
A sweep does more than clear soot, it doubles as a checkup on your flue's condition. Same-day scheduling in Silver Lake and Central Los Angeles.
Learn MoreChimney Inspection in Los Angeles
An inspection is more than a flashlight glance up the flue in Silver Lake. Every part gets checked, the report comes back same day, and a sweep can be added on the spot.
Learn MoreChimney Repair in Los Angeles
Water enters at the crown and mortar joints, rarely the firebox first, in Silver Lake. Traced to the source, color-matched materials.
Learn MoreFireplace Inspection in Los Angeles
Small warning signs, refractory cracks, a stiff damper, worn smoke shelf mortar, matter more than they look in Silver Lake.
Learn MoreFireplace Repair in Los Angeles
The best fireplace repairs are the ones caught on an inspection report in Silver Lake, before you'd notice on your own. Matched materials, original look kept.
Learn MoreChimney Level 2 Inspection in Los Angeles
A standard sweep isn't what real estate transactions call for in Silver Lake, a Level 2 scan is. Camera scan, same-day report.
Learn MoreChimney Cap Installation in Los Angeles
A cap looks like a finishing touch until it's missing, then rain and animals have a clear path into the flue in Silver Lake. Stainless steel, spark arrestor, animal exclusion.
Learn MoreChimney Flashing Repair in Los Angeles
A leak near the chimney is usually a flashing problem, not a chimney problem, in Silver Lake.
Learn MoreChimney Masonry Repair in Los Angeles
Mortar wears out well before the brick does, which is why tuckpointing works if it's done early in Silver Lake. Color-matched to the old mortar.
Learn MoreChimney Rebuilds in Los Angeles
Once tuckpointing can no longer hold, a rebuild is the permanent fix in Silver Lake. Earthquake damage, structural failure, code upgrades.
Learn MoreFireplace Cleaning in Los Angeles
Wood-burning, gas, and electric fireplaces each build up residue differently, so cleaning them isn't one-size-fits-all in Silver Lake.
Learn MoreGas Fireplace Cleaning in Los Angeles
No ash doesn't mean no upkeep, gas fireplaces still need annual cleaning in Silver Lake. Pilot, thermocouple, burner, and log service.
Learn MoreGas Fireplace Repair in Los Angeles
A gas fireplace that won't stay lit is rarely a sign the whole unit is failing in Silver Lake. Pilot light, thermocouple, gas valve, and ignition diagnosis.
Learn MoreFireplace Remodel in Los Angeles
A remodel starts with what's behind the surround, not just picking a new one, in Silver Lake. Stone, tile, mantels, and insert conversions.
Learn MoreFireplace Inserts in Los Angeles
An insert isn't a new fireplace, it's a unit that fits your existing firebox and changes how it heats in Silver Lake. Available in gas, wood, and electric versions built for masonry openings already in place.
Learn MorePellet Stove Repair in Los Angeles
A pellet stove that quits is just as likely to have a mechanical cause as an electronic one in Silver Lake. Auger, igniter, blower, and control board diagnosis.
Learn MoreWood Stove Repair in Los Angeles
Cleaning a wood stove and maintaining one aren't the same thing in Silver Lake. Baffle, firebrick, gasket, and catalytic combustor service.
Learn MoreGas Logs in Los Angeles
Gas logs trade the wood-hauling routine for a switch, but getting the sizing right is what makes them work well in Silver Lake.
Learn MoreWhat we look after in Los Angeles
Silver Lake sits in the middle of Los Angeles, so most of our city calls come from the neighborhoods around it: Echo Park, Los Feliz, Atwater Village, and Highland Park and Mount Washington further up the Los Angeles River. We work across the rest of the city by appointment, and every visit gets the same care for the room and the same plain note. Los Angeles has been through the 1971 San Fernando and 1994 Northridge earthquakes, and a brick chimney that rode both can hide cracked flue tiles from below. If no one has looked up the flue since you moved in, we suggest a camera inspection with the sweep, before the first fire.
The Houses
Around Los Angeles the stock runs to Craftsman and Spanish houses in Echo Park and Highland Park, hillside homes on Mount Washington, and newer houses with factory-built fireplaces.
Before the First Fire
A lot of Los Angeles houses changed hands without anyone looking up the chimney. Before the first fire we sweep, inspect, and run a camera up an older brick flue so a crack from an old earthquake does not stay hidden.
Care of the Room
Craftsman tile, painted brick and built-ins near the hearth get covered, and the vacuum runs while the brushes do, so the house is left as we found it.
Close By
Los Angeles stops sometimes fall alongside Echo Park, Los Feliz, Atwater Village.
Not Sure What It Needs?
Tell us what your Los Angeles fireplace is doing, and we will say what to book.
A smell after rain, smoke that rolls into the room, or a fireplace nobody has used since you moved in. Describe it on the phone and we will tell you whether a sweep, an inspection or both makes sense.