Shaded roofs that never quite dry, lake damp all summer, a walkout fireplace under the main one — west-metro chimneys live a different life, and we service them accordingly. Every job starts with a full survey that costs you not a penny.
From the walkout hearth below grade to the cap over the treetops, every trade the stack needs is done by our own crew — no handing your roof to strangers.
The flue brushed wall to wall, the shelf and damper cleared, and every bit of soot leaving the property inside a sealed vacuum — not on the breeze off the lake.
The not-a-penny look at the whole system, and a camera down the tile when a sale or a stubborn symptom wants proof in pictures.
When wet-freeze has had its decade, the failing top comes down to honest brick and goes back plumb, finished with a crown cast to pitch water off, not pool it.
Shaded brick holds moisture, and moist joints lose to winter every time. Spent mortar comes out to solid depth and the new mix goes in matched, not merely gray.
An open flue by the water collects rain, leaves, squirrels and the occasional duck's curiosity. A fitted stainless cap with screening ends the guest list; a top damper ends the summer smell.
A stain by the chimney breast has one true source and four look-alikes. We hunt until the real entry shows itself, close that one, and seal the masonry so it can still breathe.
Cracked tile or a bare flue sends heat and fumes where framing lives. One continuous stainless run, sized to the appliance and wrapped where the standard requires, closes the case.
The lower-level hearth works hardest in a lake house and shows it first. Fireboxes relaid in heat-rated brick, smoke chambers smoothed, stone surrounds and hearth extensions brought back.
Damp always signs its work. Catch the signature early and the repair stays small; wait a winter and it compounds like interest.
Simple as a crossing: you call, we look, the numbers get charted, the work gets done. No detours through a sales pitch.
Weekdays 6:30 to 7, a person answers who knows chimneys. Describe it once and take a window that suits you.
Whole system, hearth to cap — surveyed free, with the verdict spoken at the driveway before we pull away.
Anything worth fixing gets its own figure, urgent items first. The chart holds while you decide.
Work done to the mark, site left cleaner than found, and the craftsmanship standing behind it in writing.
Once the docks come out, the calendar fills with everyone who waited. One early call gets the free survey done, the fixes priced, and the first fire lit without a second thought.
(952) 225-4310A page from the running log — sweeps, crowns, caps and courses from Glen Lake to the far bays.
The shop sits on Hedberg Dr off the Ridgedale end of town; the routes run west until the pavement meets the water.
A bay we didn't name? Call (952) 225-4310 — if the truck can find the driveway, the crew can find the chimney.
Actually free. A technician surveys the whole system — hearth, damper, flue, crown, cap, flashing, masonry — and tells you where it stands before leaving the driveway, with no bill and no hard sell riding behind it. The one thing that costs money here is paper: the survey set down in writing with photographs, for closings or insurers, runs $149 and gets put together only when you ask.
Shade and water. Lots here sit under big oaks and maples, so brick stays damp for days after a rain instead of hours, with lake humidity underneath it all summer. Come winter, the wet-freeze cycle runs extra laps — and crowns, joints and flashing pay for every one. It's why our survey climbs past the flue to the parts the weather chews first.
It's air moving the wrong way. The lower hearth sits at the bottom of the house's stack effect, so in warm months its flue often drafts backward and carries old soot smell into the room. A top-sealing damper usually ends it; sometimes the cure is a cap or liner fix. The free survey tells you which — and whether water is part of the story.
One sweep per heating season in regular use, plus a check before the first fire after the summer off. Plenty of houses here run two hearths off one chase — main floor up, walkout below — and the two flues age differently, so both get looked at in the same visit.
That's the written survey's whole job. Sale timelines jump the calendar: the free survey lands within days, the camera goes down the flue if the deal wants proof, and the $149 written version with photographs reaches you one business day after ordering — laid out so agent, lender and buyer each find their piece fast.
Fully insured, certificate available before the visit if you ask when booking. The people on your roof are our own screened techs — the roof never gets handed to a subcontractor you've never met.
No. Cloths run door to hearth, the opening is sealed, and a filtered vacuum works the entire visit, so the soot finishes its trip inside the machine. Budget about an hour for a routine sweep; the room ends the day exactly as it started it.
Because weekdays run long on purpose — the phone opens at 6:30 so you can book before work, and the crew pushes through to 7. Weekends the trucks rest and, like half the town, we're somewhere near the water. Leave a message Saturday and Monday's 6:30 calls begin with you.
No forms, no waiting on a callback. The person who answers reads flues for a living and has the route board in front of them.
The smell, the stain, the smoke that hesitates, the closing date — say it once. Before the call ends you'll know if it needs a visit and roughly what the fix weighs.
(952) 225-4310 Tap to Call the ShopWeekdays 6:30 AM – 7:00 PM
Weekends off — messages open Monday's book