Chimney cleaning — Delray Beach, FL
Creosote is the part that burns. It is also the part nobody sees.
We sweep the flue from the firebox to the cap, and check the two things that turn out to be the real fault more often than the soot does: the cap on top and the damper at the bottom.
- Smoke coming back into the room
- A damper that no longer closes
- Birds, wasps or leaves in the flue
- A fireplace nobody has opened in years
Sun–Thu 7 AM–8 PM · Fri 7 AM–6 PM · Sat closed
Florida licensed
AC contractor CAC1822067
Business hours
Sun–Thu 7 AM–8 PM · Fri 7 AM–6 PM · Sat closed
Same or next day
Scheduling that fits your week
5.0★
11 Google reviews
Why it matters
What a swept flue actually changes.
A chimney is not a duct with soot in it. A duct moves conditioned air; a flue carries the products of a fire out of a room people are sitting in, and it does that on nothing but the pull of hot air rising.
Creosote is the fuel, not the dirt
Unburnt smoke condenses on the walls of a flue and hardens there. It is not soot's ugly cousin: it is a flammable deposit, and it is the thing that is alight in a chimney fire.
A flue that draws
A fire vents on hot air rising and nothing else. Narrow the flue with deposit, or block it with a nest, and the smoke takes the easier route — back through the opening, into the room.
The cap is often the real fault
A missing or rusted cap lets rain, leaves and animals straight in, and a chimney that has stood open through a few Florida summers usually shows it. Checking it is part of the visit.
The damper has to seal
A damper is the lid on the flue. Stuck open, it is a hole from your living room to the sky that leaks conditioned air all summer; stuck shut, the fire has nowhere to send its smoke.
An unused chimney is not a clean one
A Florida fireplace is lit a handful of evenings a year, so a flue here is rarely worn out by use. It is what moves in while it sits idle — damp, leaves, wasps, birds — that we find.
You see what comes out
What comes down the flue is brought out and shown to you before it leaves, the way this crew already works on a duct: a reviewer describes being shown the gunk on the vacuum filter.
The visit, step by step
Five steps, in the order the smoke travels.
Tap a step to see what happens in the room on the day. A chimney visit is not a duct visit with different nouns: it starts at the hearth, inside your house, and it finishes on the roof.
- The hearth is covered firstBefore the damper is touched.
- The firebox and the smoke chamberWhere the deposit is thickest.
- The flue is swept its full heightNot an arm's reach up.
- The cap and the crown, from the roofThe half of the job that is outside.
- The damper, then what we tell youIt has to open, and it has to close.
Step 1 of 5
The hearth is covered first
Soot is fine, black and it travels. The floor in front of the fireplace and whatever stands near it are covered before anything is opened, and the opening itself is sealed to the vacuum so that what comes down the flue goes into our equipment rather than into the room. Everything after this step depends on having done it first.
Step 2 of 5
The firebox and the smoke chamber
Straight above the fire, where the flue narrows and the gases slow down, is where the heaviest build-up sits. It is also where the faults nobody can see from an armchair turn up: a cracked panel at the back of the firebox, mortar gone from a joint, a shelf carrying debris that has fallen from higher up.
Step 3 of 5
The flue is swept its full height
The brush travels the whole height of the flue rather than the part you can see by ducking under the lintel. Creosote does not lie evenly: it builds where the flue bends and where it cools, which is the upper half — exactly the length that nothing anyone does from the hearth will ever reach.
Step 4 of 5
The cap and the crown, from the roof
The top is checked from the roof: whether the cap is there at all, whether its screen is intact, whether the crown around it has cracked and is letting water run down the flue. A nest, a palm frond or a cap rusted through is a blockage as complete as any amount of creosote, and none of it is visible from the room below.
Step 5 of 5
The damper, then what we tell you
The damper is worked open and shut. A lid that will not seal costs you conditioned air every hour of a Florida summer; one that will not open fills the room with smoke on the first cold evening. Then you are shown what came out and told what we found — including when what we found is that the chimney did not need us.
- 5.0
Average rating on the Google profile
- 36,997
Homes in Delray Beach
- 44%
Of them built before 1980
- 5
Towns on the route
Where we work
Chimney work across five towns.
Delray Beach and the south of Palm Beach County, from Boynton Beach down to Boca Raton. Each town has its own page, with the housing numbers that say how old its building stock is.
Palm Beach County, with the towns we serve picked out.
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- Boca Raton 48,811 homes
- Boynton Beach 40,694 homes
- Delray Beach 36,997 homes
- Highland Beach 4,641 homes
- Ocean Ridge 1,577 homes
- Delray BeachNamed in 10 of the crew's Google posts
- Highland BeachNamed in 4 of the crew's Google posts
- Boca RatonNamed in 3 of the crew's Google posts
- Boynton BeachNamed in 3 of the crew's Google posts
- Ocean RidgeNamed in 3 of the crew's Google posts
The rest of the work
What else this crew is called out for.
Air duct cleaning
Every supply and return opened and photographed, then the whole run brushed and vacuumed — plenum and blower wheel included.
Dryer vent cleaning
The exhaust line cleared from the connector behind the drum to the cap outside, and the termination flapper checked before we leave.
Chimney cleaning
This page: the flue swept from the firebox to the cap, with the cap and the damper checked while we are up there.
Duct repair
Seal leaks, reconnect loose runs and repair damaged ductwork so conditioned air reaches every room.
Duct installation
Design and install new ductwork sized for your home so your AC runs as efficiently as possible.
Checkable, not claimed
What we will and will not put on this page.
No chimney certification claimed
No sweeping certification appears here because this crew holds none. Its NADCA membership and its Florida air-conditioning licence are both about ductwork, and neither one covers a flue.
Both are on the services page, with where to check each.
The quote comes before the work
A chimney is quoted in your home, once the technician has looked at it and before anything is opened, with no obligation to book on the day.
A reviewer describes the rates as very reasonable.
You are shown what came out
What comes down the flue is brought out and shown to you before it leaves the house, and you are told what we found up there whether or not it is something we can sell you.
A reviewer describes being shown the gunk on the vacuum filter.
Every Google review, all five stars
5.0 from 11 reviews on the Delray Beach profile, every one of them five stars. None of them describes a chimney, and all of them sit on our reviews page.
Counted from the saved profile, never derived from the average.
The room is covered before anything opens
Soot is fine, black and it travels. The floor and whatever stands near it are covered, and the opening is sealed to the vacuum, before the damper is touched.
A reviewer describes the crew leaving everything clean.
100% satisfaction promise
If something is not right, we come back and make it right. It is our own promise rather than a third party's badge — the one line on this grid you cannot look up.
What people say about how this crew works.
“walked me through the whole process”
“Just had my air ducts cleaned by Express Air Duct and wow, what a difference! The tech, Mike, was super friendly and walked me through the whole process, using this big machine that looked like it could vacuum a spaceship! Seriously, I could see the dust coming out like a crazy cloud. Took about an hour and now the house smells fresh—definitely felt a change in the airflow too. My allergies are thanking me already!”
“very reasonable rates”
“They went out of their way to fix issue with our roof vent cap after a bad storm. Great response time and very reasonable rates.”
“Efficient and left everything clean”
“Great service!! Thank you for helping out! Efficient and left everything clean.”
“incredibly mindful of our indoor cats”
“Amazing customer service during our recent air vent clean. They were incredibly mindful of our indoor cats while moving equipment.”
“great communication scheduling was easy”
“Reliable company with great communication scheduling was easy and the service exceeded my expectations. My dryer performance has improved significantly.”
“you guys did a great job”
“Thank you so much for cleaning my air ducts, you guys did a great job!”
Before you call
The questions we get about chimneys.
Not answered here? Call (561) 652-1432 and a technician will talk it through before anyone books anything.
Ask us directlyHow do I know the chimney needs sweeping?
What is creosote, and why does it matter more than soot?
Does a fireplace in Florida really need this?
Do you repair a chimney, or only clean it?
Are you certified to sweep chimneys?
Which towns do you cover?
Book the chimney visit
Tell us when it was last lit.
When you last used it, what the smoke did, and whether there is still a cap on top. Those three answers are most of what we need before anyone leaves the yard.
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(561) 652-1432