Top Hat Chimney & Duct Cleaning

From our early days where Marshall personally knocked on hundreds of doors in State College, offering chimney inspections and chimney sweeping on a personal one-to-one basis, still to today, Top Hat is best at developing a personal relationship with our clients. As a matter of fact, this is still the "best" part of our job: to know, service and listen to our clients. Over the 30 years our industry has moved forward and so has Top Hat in the field of tooling and sweeping technology. Gone are the old days of soot filled chimney brushes and backbreaking labor, to much more modern techniques of chimney sweeping and chimney relining, We understand now more the importance of inspections of gas and oil furnace chimneys which now need much more care as furnace technology has greatly improved!

Older masonry chimney structures, usually those built prior to 1950, don't have any type of lining system installed and instead are just composed of brick and mortar. A properly sized and installed chimney liner is essential for your chimney to work properly. Masonry chimneys typically have what are called clay tile flue liners. In an unlined chimney, heat and moisture can pass through the masonry faster than a lined chimney. This leads to premature chimney damage and can lead to unsafe situations in your home.

Chimneys can get pretty beat up by the weather. The chimney on your house is exposed to some of the most HARSH conditions. Water intrusion, freeze and thaw cycles, and just general wear and tear will harm the chimney structure. Due to the harsh environment that your chimney is in, sometimes your chimney needs a little maintenance. The expansion of the mortar joints and brick during freeze and thaw cycles can cause the mortar joints to separate from the brick creating cracks in the joints and eventually missing mortar.