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Chimney Clean Company has been serving Bay Area homeowners for decades. With our local roots in San Jose, our chimney clean company service areas extend throughout Santa Clara County and selected communities across the East Bay and Peninsula, providing dependable chimney services to local homeowners.

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Areas We Service

We service all of the South Bay, including all of Santa Clara County. We also service selected communities throughout the East Bay and Peninsula. Since we are based in San Jose, we do not service every city in these areas.

All of Santa Clara County Serving communities throughout the county

Campbell Cupertino Gilroy Los Altos Los Altos Hills Los Gatos Milpitas Monte Sereno Morgan Hill Mountain View Palo Alto San Jose Santa Clara Saratoga Sunnyvale

East Bay Service Areas Serving homeowners in the communities listed

Castro Valley Dublin Fremont Hayward Livermore Newark Pleasanton San Leandro Union City

Peninsula Service Areas Serving homeowners in the communities listed

Atherton Belmont East Palo Alto Emerald Hills Foster City Menlo Park Portola Valley Redwood City Redwood Shores San Carlos San Mateo Stanford Woodside

Service area availability: We are based in San Jose and proudly serve all of Santa Clara County. Outside the South Bay, service availability varies by city. Please review the list above to confirm that your location is within our current service area.

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Smoking back

There are many fireplaces that seem to smoke back into the house no matter what is done. In our experience, the most common cause is that the fireplace simply needs to be cleaned. This is especially likely if the fireplace has gotten worse over time, that is, the smoking back is worse now than it used to be.

Several other possible causes of smoking back are problems with the damper, chimney cap, grate, firewood, or structural problems with the chimney itself. At Chimney Clean Company, we do a full inspection with every cleaning, or we can also do just the inspection if the chimney doesn’t need to be cleaned. This inspection is designed to reveal any causes of smoking back.

Broken chimneys

In the Bay Area, many chimneys were broken in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Usually, these chimneys are broken at or near the roof line, although sometimes they can be broken further down, even at the ground level.

We are fully licensed masonry contractors. We rebuild broken chimneys. If they are broken at the roof line, this usually entails taking the chimney part of the way down brick by brick, installing steel reinforcing bars, getting an inspection from a city inspector, then rebuilding the chimney back up around the steel rebar.

Missing mortar or damaged bricks

Over time, many chimneys develop places that are missing mortar between bricks, or damaged bricks, either inside the firebox or on the outside of the chimney. These areas can usually be repaired, either by replacing the missing mortar or replacing the bricks themselves. Items such as these can be dangerous because they can allow flames, sparks or hot gases to enter the structure of the house.

Water entry

Sometimes the metal that seals the chimney at the roof, called “flashing”, will come loose or develop leaks. In this case, water sometimes comes into the ceiling of the room and causes water spots and stains on the sheet rock. This flashing should be repaired before the water causes more damage.

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