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Chimney sweep in Carson
AAA Chimney Sweep & Fire Protection Co. has been working Carson chimneys since 1977, from Scottsdale to Dominguez to the tracts out by Del Amo. Family owned the whole time.
What is the fireplace doing?
8am to 8pm
Same-age tracts in hard air
Carson sits between the refineries and the harbor, so the air goes after anything metal on the roof. The tract chimneys are also the same age, and they tend to fail together.
Most of Carson went up in the 1950s and 1960s. Built fast, built to a few plans. Whole streets of the same house through Scottsdale and Carriage Crest. When one chimney shows a thin crown or a worn cap, the one next door usually shows it too.
The air is the rest of the story. Refinery exhaust to the north. Salt off the harbor to the south. Both corrode metal, so caps rust from the inside and dampers seize while the brick still looks sound.
Where we work in town
Every part of Carson
- Scottsdale
- Carriage Crest
- Dominguez
- Victoria
- Del Amo
- Rancho Dominguez
- Central Carson
- East Carson
What we find on Carson chimneys
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Caps rusted by harbor and refinery air
Carson breathes refinery exhaust off the north and harbor salt off the south, and both attack metal. A galvanised cap can look fine from the street and be thin enough to put a thumb through. We check it first on every roof here.
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The same fault, street after street
Scottsdale and Carriage Crest went up to a few repeated plans. A thin crown or a short flue on one house tends to run down the whole block. We usually know the chimney before we park.
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Original dampers seized shut
Plenty of these homes still have the damper the builder set in the 1950s. Corrosion locks the plate. Stuck open it bleeds your heat, stuck closed the first fire of the season fills the room.
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Crowns cracked and letting water in
The crowns here were poured thin sixty-odd years ago with little overhang. Once water gets past a cracked crown, the flue tile and the mortar start to go with it.
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Short flues that draw badly
The single storey tracts have short stacks. They lose draft the moment anything partly blocks them, and people assume a smoky fireplace is normal. It usually is not.
What we do here
Services available in Carson
Chimney sweeping
Drop cloths down, HEPA vacuum running, Level I inspection included.
Chimney inspection
Level I visual, or Level II camera the full length of the flue for escrow.
Chimney cap installation
Stainless caps that survive salt air. Galvanized ones do not last here.
Chimney leak repair
Ceiling stains and damp fireboxes traced back to the crown, cap or flashing.
Chimney repair
Crowns, mortar joints, spalling brick and damaged flue tile.
Gas fireplace repair
Pilots that will not hold, uneven burners, dead remotes, bad valves.
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Questions
Carson chimney questions
- How soon can you get to Carson?
- Usually within the week. We work the whole Harbor stretch, so we are through Carson most weeks we run Wilmington and Long Beach.
- My neighbour just had chimney work. Do I probably need the same?
- Quite possibly. The homes on your street were built together to the same plan, so they wear out together. If a neighbour needed a crown or a cap, yours is worth a look while we are close by.
- Does the harbor and refinery air really affect my chimney?
- Yes, and it shows on the metal first. Caps and dampers in Carson corrode faster than the brick around them. That is why we fit stainless caps here, since galvanised ones rust through.
- How often should a Carson chimney be inspected?
- Once a year. Most of these chimneys are original and past sixty, so the annual look is about catching a rusted cap or a stiff damper before it turns into a leak.
- We barely use the fireplace. Do we still need it checked?
- Yes. Light use means little creosote, which is the good part. It also means a flue sitting open for eleven months, long enough for a nest or rust to become a problem.
- Do you do inspections for escrow?
- Yes. A Level II camera inspection comes with a written report and photos, which is what a buyer's agent or their insurer will want to see.
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Tell us the cross street and what the fireplace is doing. If it is a cap or a damper, we usually know before we pull up.
818-348-1993Open every day, 8am to 8pm. Serving Carson and the Harbor Area.
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