Holt John & Company Chimney Service

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We contacted John on 10/17 and scheduled an appointment for 10/19 at 1:00pm. John's son arrived at 1:15pm (close enough to be considered punctual). and immediately started to work - but not before he showered love on our two dogs and put them at ease.
He first climbed to the roof to inspect the chimney cap. While up there, he noticed that it was attached with rivets, so he took those out and attached it with screws for ease of maintenance in the future.
Once the inspection was over, he came down to the fireplace and created a and quot;dirt shieldand quot; for the fireplace with a piece of cardboard, then cut a hole in the cardboard for his (industrial strength) vacuum. He then closed the flue, setup the cardboard, turned the vacuum on, and went back up on the room to sweep all of the dirt down. Not a BIT of dirt escaped the fireplace - not even a whiff of dust.
Afterwards, he came back downstairs, and reaching in behind the piece of cardboard, opened up the flue and let the vacuum handle all of the dust that fell down from that. Finally, he cleaned the little bit remaining from inside the fire place, and swept the walls and emptied all of the debris. During all of this time, he left the vacuum on, and again, not a bit of dirt escaped. He even vacuumed around the fireplace - he actually left it cleaner than he found it.
Once that was done, he climbed back on to the roof with a gas blower and cleaned the entire roof - multiple levels, skylights, and even cleaned out all of the gutters.
The cost? $92 for the chimney, and only $20 for the cleaning of the roof and gutters!
All in all, an exceptional service call - and I will definitely be using them again after all of the leaves have fallen!