Get in touch City of Rolling Meadows!
Winter is coming to Rolling Meadows! This means chimney and fireplace cleaning is inevitable. And when that day comes, be sure to give Chimney Monkey a call! We’ll sweep your chimney, fireplace, and even take out the trash on our way out!
Our home fireplace experts know just how to make your fireplace the cleanest and coziest it’s ever been! Call 847 994 4388 or email today!
Winters in Schiller Park, a village nestled within Cook County, Illinois, can be quite harsh. With a population of 11,709 as of the 2020 census, this community experiences the full spectrum of Midwest weather. From chilly temperatures to heavy snowfall, residents of Schiller Park know the importance of staying warm and safe during the colder months. Whether it’s curling up by the fireplace or enjoying the comfort of a well-heated home, preparing for the winter season is essential.
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You can call our office from Monday to Friday from 8am – 9pm at 847 994 4388
Fireplace and Chimney Cleaning in Rolling Meadows
Rolling Meadows is unusually uniform for a suburb its size. It was developed largely as a single planned community of Kimball Hill ranches starting in the mid-1950s, which means an enormous number of homes here are the same handful of floor plans with the same fireplace and chimney details, built in the same few years, by the same crews. Later apartment and townhome development added a layer of prefabricated fireplaces on top of that.
What We Find in Rolling Meadows Chimneys
The uniformity cuts both ways. It means we usually know what we are walking into before we get on the roof, and it also means that when a design weakness exists it exists on thousands of houses at once. The original ranch chimneys are short, which sounds convenient but produces genuinely marginal draft, especially now that the houses have been air-sealed and re-insulated over seventy years. A tight house with a short flue struggles to establish draft, and the complaint we get is smoke rolling into the room on start-up.
That is often fixable without masonry work. Priming the flue, cracking a window, and correcting a smoke chamber that was left as rough corbelled brick all help; parging the smoke chamber smooth is one of the higher-value repairs available on this housing stock because it reduces turbulence and improves draw at the same time. Where the flue is genuinely too short or too large for the appliance, a correctly sized liner is the answer.
What a Sweep Includes, and What It Costs in Rolling Meadows
Our prices are flat and published, which is unusual in this trade and deliberate on our part. A full chimney sweep is $335 and the Level 1 inspection is included in that price. It covers containment and drop cloths, mechanical cleaning of the flue, cleaning the smoke chamber and smoke shelf, HEPA vacuuming of the firebox, a camera look up the flue on every single sweep, and a photographed report of what we found. We run the camera whether or not you ask for it, because spotting a cracked tile or an open joint is the whole reason to be up there.
If you need the inspection without the sweep, a Level 1 is $205, a utility flue inspection for a furnace or water heater is $205, and a Level 2 with a camera survey of the flue interior is $295, with a discount for each additional flue. We already run a camera during a routine sweep as part of Level 1, so what a Level 2 really buys you is the formal documented survey and the written report insurers and buyers ask for — which is what you need when a Rolling Meadows home changes hands. Common repairs are published too: a stainless cap is about $350, crown resurfacing about $400, crown replacement $2,000 to $3,000. Tuckpointing we quote by the section after looking at the chimney, since joint depth, mortar matching and roof access move the price far more than brick count does. The full list is on our chimney repair cost page.
Signs Your Chimney Needs Attention
Smoke rolling back into the room, a fireplace that draws worse than it used to, a persistent smoky or sour smell in warm weather, debris or sandy mortar collecting in the firebox, white staining on the exterior brick, rust on the damper or the appliance vent connector, and scratching or chirping sounds in the flue. Any one of those is worth a look. A carbon monoxide alarm sounding is a leave-the-house-and-call-the-fire-department event, not a scheduling one.
Related work we handle: sweeping, inspections, relining, crown repair, caps and chase covers, tuckpointing, masonry repair, leak repair, and fireplace installation.
Booking in Rolling Meadows
Call 847-994-4388 or request an appointment. Our shop is at 741 Hastings Dr, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089. Late summer and early fall book out fastest, because everyone remembers the fireplace at the same time; if you want a sweep before the first cold snap, call before October. Real estate transactions get scheduling priority, since Level 2 inspections tend to arrive with a deadline attached.