4 checkpoints for chimney service. The anatomy of your chimney. How to avoid chimney repair scams. It started with a phone call. Patricia Talaszek hired one of the six or so companies that would call each fall offering to clean the chimneys connected to two wood-burning fireplaces in her Staten Island home. When the technician said she'd need a chimney liner costing more than $1,000, her natural skepticism set in: "We're New Yorkers so we tend to say: 'Wait a minute, here.'" Talaszek declined the extra work and later hired the highly rated Harris Hearth & Home off Angie's List to examine her chimneys, only to find they were in tiptop shape.
"I could have easily been ripped off," she says. Chimney cleaning and repair scammers tend to follow the patterns of those in other home improvement industries, luring homeowners via phone solicitations, door-to-door sales pitches or ads offering too-good-to-be-true prices and preying on fear and lack of knowledge to score quick sales. Scams more prevalent in the Northeast But negative experiences with chimney companies can happen anywhere. Antique appliances, retro refrigerator, reproduction stove, vintage stoves. Roseland Icebox Company - Authentic Electric Wooden Refrigerators.