Take The Chimney Off Your Critical Path.
Pre-listing, option period, or re-inspection after a credit — scanned with a camera, measured against the code it has to meet, and written so you can forward it to a client instead of interpreting it for them.
Booking starts with your deadline, not the address. Written report inside 48 hours of the visit.
This part of our business is new.
The inspection work is not new. Working with agents as a channel is. So there is no wall of agent quotes on this page, no count of transactions closed, and no badge claiming somebody’s preferred-vendor status — we have not earned one and we are not going to print one.
Here is what does exist to be examined before you put a client anywhere near us: the inspection standard we work to, the camera equipment that produces the evidence, the exact format the report arrives in, and a schedule built around your deadline. Ask for a sample. Send one file. Judge it, then decide whether there is a second one.
Three moments, and only one of them is optional.
A chimney rarely announces itself early. It surfaces in an inspection report, late, phrased as a recommendation, with a deadline already running.
Pre-listing inspection
The fireplace gets scanned and written up while your seller still controls the calendar and the price. Whatever comes back is a decision the seller makes on their own terms: fix it, disclose it, or price it in. Nothing about that changes the physical condition of the chimney — it changes who is holding the information when the number gets set.
The trade-off is real: once a defect is in writing, it is disclosable. Sellers should hear that from you before they book, not from us afterward.
The specialist evaluation the general report asks for
When a general inspector writes "recommend evaluation by a qualified chimney professional," that sentence is the whole finding — no camera went up the flue, so nobody yet knows whether the answer is a replacement cap or a full reline, and those two numbers are not close. We scan it, measure it, and attach a cost to each defect, which is the part a credit conversation needs and the part the general report was never scoped to produce.
Book it the day the general report lands. The specialist referral almost always arrives with less of the option period left than anyone wants.
Re-inspection of the corrections
If the seller's contractor does the work, somebody has to confirm it was actually done and done to the standard the credit was priced against. We re-inspect the corrected components and document them the same way, so your buyer closes on a verified condition instead of a receipt and an assurance.
If we performed the repair ourselves, the re-inspection still gets documented to the same standard — a report on our own work is worth less if it is written any looser.
Written to be read by somebody who isn’t you.
A transaction report earns its fee by surviving the forward — to a client, to the other agent, to a contractor whose job is to find the soft spot in it.
Stills pulled from the flue scan
The camera footage is where the expensive defects live — separated tile joints, a breach into a wall cavity, a liner that has parted at a seam. The stills go in the report so nobody at the table is asked to believe a technician's description of something they cannot see.
The standard each finding is measured against
NFPA 211 or the applicable IRC section, named on the finding itself. That is what lets the other side's contractor check the call instead of arguing with it, and it is the difference between a finding and an opinion.
Measured, not eyeballed
Clearance to combustibles, hearth extension dimensions, termination height. These are numbers with a code requirement behind them, so the report carries the measurement and the requirement side by side.
A repair scope broken into lines
Each defect gets its own line and its own cost, traceable to the photo that justifies it. A list can be split, staged, partially credited, or partially dropped once both sides can see what is cosmetic. A single lump sum can only be fought over.
One page a client can read alone
Written without trade shorthand: what is wrong, what it means for actually using the fireplace, and what happens if nobody touches it. This is the page that stops you from having to interpret a technician's notes over the phone on a Sunday.
A re-inspection record when corrections happen
Same components, same photo treatment, dated after the work. It closes the loop on the credit rather than leaving your buyer to take the repair on trust.
The date is the first thing we ask.
Not the address, not the fireplace type — the deadline. Everything else about the booking is arranged behind it.
You give us the deadline, not a preference
Option-period expiry or closing date. We schedule against it and confirm on the call whether it is reachable, because a booking taken and missed is worse for you than a no said early.
60 to 120 minutes on site for most homes
Longer where the roof is steep, the flue is tall, or there is more than one system. If access to the roof is unsafe on the day, the report says so and names the reason rather than quietly omitting the components we could not reach.
Written report inside 48 hours of the visit
Photos, findings, code references and the repair scope arrive together. Nothing is issued in pieces, because a partial report is what people negotiate against and then have to re-negotiate.
Re-inspection booked the same way
Once the corrections are done, the re-visit is scheduled against the closing date the same as the first one, so verification is not the thing that slips.
The report is only useful if nobody can dismiss it.
No referral payments, in either direction
We do not pay agents for sending work, and we do not ask agents to pay for placement on any list. If a report ever needs to survive scrutiny from the other side, a payment between the agent and the inspector is the first thing that gets used against it.
No co-branded reports
The report goes out under our name only. You are welcome to forward it, attach it, or quote it — but a document that carries a brokerage logo stops reading as a third-party finding the moment the other agent notices.
No adjusting a finding to suit whoever booked
The condition is written the way the chimney presents, whether that helps your side or costs it. This is not a moral position so much as a practical one: a report that can be suspected of leaning has no weight at the table, which makes it worthless to you specifically.
No obligation to use us for the repair
We quote the corrections because a scope without a cost cannot be negotiated. Take that scope to any qualified contractor you like — the report is yours and it does not expire when you hire someone else.
Who pays, and what it costs
The inspection is billed to whoever books it — buyer, seller, or the client you are representing. Agents are never invoiced for a client’s inspection and there is no fee to have us on a list. Current starting figures for the transaction report live on the service page and on pricing, which are the two places we keep them so a number can’t drift between pages. Repairs are quoted separately, after the findings exist.
Buyers & sellers
The same inspection explained to the person on the other end of your forward.
OpenTransaction report
Scope, timing, deliverables and the published starting price.
OpenLevel 2 inspection
The camera-scanned tier NFPA 211 ties to a property transfer.
OpenStandards & insurance
What we are measured against and what we carry, in writing.
OpenSingle property? Book the date and skip the form.
Address, deadline, and which side you are on is everything we need to schedule.
Team, brokerage, or a run of listings coming? Use the form. Turnaround windows, a named contact, and where reports get routed are worth settling once rather than re-explaining on every contract. Ask for the sample report in the notes field and we will send it before you commit anything.
Request a compliance quote
Single-site, multifamily, or national portfolio — tell us the system and the sites.
Agents — FAQ
Do you have agent references we can call?
No. Producing one would mean inventing it, so there is nothing here to give you. This is a new segment for us: the inspection work is long-standing, working with agents as a channel is not, and there is no roster of brokerages to point at yet. What we can do is send the sample report format before you book, take one file, and let that file argue for the second one. If that is too thin to risk a client on, that is a reasonable call.
Do you run an agent program, pay referral fees, or offer volume pricing?
No program and no referral fees. Volume changes logistics rather than the inspection, so what a brokerage or team can set up is standing scheduling — a known contact, agreed turnaround windows, and reports routed the same way every time — instead of a discount that would have to come out of the thoroughness of the visit.
Can you actually make our option period?
Usually, and you will hear it on the phone if we cannot. Lead with the expiry date and we work backwards from it rather than dropping you into the next open slot; the write-up lands inside 48 hours of the visit. Two things refuse to be scheduled around: a roof nobody should walk in ice or an active storm, and the October-through-December stretch when heating-season calls compress every calendar in this trade. In those weeks the honest answer is sometimes a later date, said up front.
Can you talk to my client directly, or do you route everything through me?
Either, and you set it at booking. Some agents want to stay in the middle so nothing reaches the client unframed; others want the technician to explain a finding directly and get out of the translation business. Tell us which, and that is how the visit runs.
Can you give me a number from photos before we book anything?
We can tell you what the photos suggest and what they cannot rule out, and that is often enough to decide whether an inspection is worth the option-period days. What we will not do is quote a repair from a photograph — flue interiors and clearance conditions are exactly the things a camera on the roof cannot see, and a number given before the scan tends to become the number everyone remembers.
What happens if your report kills the deal?
Then it was a deal built on something nobody had looked at yet. We are not indifferent to that — a dead contract costs you real money — but the alternative is a buyer who closes on a chimney that cannot be used safely and finds out in November. What we can control is that the finding is specific, priced, and shown with an image, so the conversation is about a repair rather than about a scare.
Our seller had the chimney inspected last spring. Does that hold?
Read it — a prior report is genuinely useful context — but treat it as a record of a date rather than a current statement. A heating season of use, a roof replacement, a hail event, or any work on the stack in between means the report is describing a chimney that has since changed. If the buyer's side is going to test it, the age of the document is the first thing they will test.
We are a team, not a single agent. How would that be set up?
Use the form on this page rather than the booking flow. What is worth arranging once instead of per deal: a single point of contact, a standing turnaround window, an agreed report destination so nothing sits in one agent's inbox, and a decision on whether we route findings through the agent or straight to the client. None of that requires a contract or a minimum.
Get it inspected. Get it in writing.
Flat fee confirmed when you book. Same-week scheduling. A pass/fail verdict within 48 hours.
24/7 Response
Chimney fire, storm hit, active leak, or a flue you're not sure about? We answer 7 AM to midnight and the assessment ends in a written safe-to-use verdict — including a do-not-use notice when the evidence supports one. After-hours dispatch runs subject to crew availability.
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