[Summit] wood stove & chimney repair?

[Theresa Mathiesen]

Hi, Ellen and Neighbors,

Sorry to be replying so late.  As it happened we had made an appointment
with a chimney cleaner for our own wood stove, and I was waiting to see
what he would be like.  He seems very good.  His name is Wayne and his
company is Competitive Chimney Sweep, Inc.  (401) 356-4455.

Wayne had been recommended to us by our carpenter/contractor, who put in
our wood stove and metal insulated chimney, and who used to clean it, but
can't do it any more.

Wayne took photos of the chimney from the wood stove up and from the
chimney cap down.  The pictures showed that we don't need a cleaning at
this time.

Ed, our contractor, says Wayne also services brick chimneys.  Sometime
we'll have him take a look at our brick chimney that vents the furnace and
hot water heater.

It's important to have a good chimney sweep.  Before Wayne, and before Ed
did it for us a couple of times, we hired two that didn't work out very
well.  The first one seems to have bent something inside the stove when he
sent his brushes up the chimney from the bottom.  The moveable baffle
inside the stove hasn't worked as well after that.  The second one didn't
brush from the top down as well as from the bottom up, and we had a chimney
fire.  That was scary, believe me.  (Elva to Firemen:  "Will it burn our
house down?"  Firemen:  "Probably not."  "Probably" wasn't that
reassuring... We didn't go to sleep that night.)

In summary, I recommend Wayne of Competitive Chimney Sweep, Inc.

Elva




On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Ellen Santaniello
<esantaniello at gmail.com>wrote:

> Looking for someone who can troubleshoot both wood stove and chimney, and
> possibly install a (different) used wood stove. Recommendations of anyone
> savvy in the art of heating with wood? Thanks. Ellen/Mayflower St
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