Coryell, Bell, and Lampasas counties Chimney Sweep, Chimney Cleaning, Chimney Repair, Chimney Caps, Energy Saving Products | Ables Top Hat Chimney Sweeps
Keeping Central Texas homes safe since 1980!!!
Chimney Sweeps and much much more
WE CLEAN CHIMNEYS, MAKE CHIMNEY REPAIRS, AND
SAVE YOU ENERGY DOLLARS!!!
 We at Ables Top Hat Chimney Sweeps have been providing superior service to central Texas homeowners for over 28 years. We are a family owned and operated business providing you with prompt service and careful attention to detail while we guarantee your satisfaction.
Chimney Sweeping
Chimney Sweeping is our main business, but that is just the start. We are your total wood heating specialists! We repair and maintain chimneys, chimney crowns, and fireplaces, and carry many accessories for wood-heating systems. If we don't have it on the truck just ask and we can usually get it for you.
Energy Conservation
Saving energy dollars is crucial now with ever increasing energy costs. We can help you save energy and money with products that focus on the energy wasted by your fireplace. Energy conservation is sorely needed. We have several products to do that for you, including Heat Reflecting Shields, Radiant Firegrates, & Top Sealing Dampers.
CLEAN YOUR CHIMNEY
 A clean chimney is a safe chimney. We thoroughly scrub your chimney with no mess, as ensured by our huge HEPA filtered vacuum. If you are not one of our hundreds of satisfied customers you need to try us. Call today at 254-547-6087 or fill out our online contact form.
We have been In business since 1980 and are not here for the quick buck, but to keep our customers safe. We have had most of those customers for years. Once you are a customer of ours, you'll keep us coming back because we are not in a rush to get through and go to the next job. We take the time needed to inform you as to how to get the most out of your system while keeping you safe. Once you join our list of hundreds of satisfied customers you will wonder why it took you so long.
We are a small growing family business with personal attention to you. Your business is vital to us.
WHAT'S IT LIKE TO HAVE A CHIMNEY FIRE?
It's no fun. If it doesn't burn your house down, it will probably wreck your chimney and scare you half to death. Here's how it happens.
Begin with one dirty chimney–let's say a fireplace or woodstove not cleaned for a couple of years. The soot lining the chimney flue is saturated with a flammable stuff called creosote(more detail on creosote is available in any dictionary). It doesn't take much to ignite creosote–a newspaper fire sending flames up to the damper in enough.
Once kindled, creosote burns with joyous abandon. In a matter of seconds the fire spreads up through the flue creating a draft that only helps things along. At this point your average chimney fire begins to roar and howl, sending the occupants of the house running for cover.
If you run, you'll be treated to a real fireworks show. As the creosote fire builds and intensifies the heat melts the mortar between the brick on a masonry chimney and on a metal chimney it can distort the liner as well as get hot enough to dissolve the stainless steel coating. On masonry chimneys the red-hot mortar actually drips into the flue, only to be caught up in the tremendous updraft, and these little fire balls shoot out the chimney and onto the roof. If you're lucky, the chimney will fall apart destroying one end of the building–if you're not, this miniature volcano can bring the whole house down.
However, if you stand your ground, a chimney fire can be controlled. Put out the fire in the fireplace with an extinguisher or sand. Cover the opening with a wet blanket, call the fire department, and hope for the best. But it should be pointed out that having your chimney cleaned is a lot easier on the nerves than the sand and we blanket method.
We once had an acquaintance who laughed at us for telling people they needed to clean their chimneys. He told me his grandparents had a chimney and never had it cleaned and never had a chimney fire. I unsuccessfully explained that older houses allowed a lot of dilution air into the fireplace allowing it to burn hotter and cleaner but even then people used to clean their chimneys regularly by crude and rudimentary ways.
It was not two weeks after telling me this that his newly remodeled house was almost completely destroyed by; you guessed it, a chimney fire. It seems he had his employees over for a Christmas party. As they shared gifts and unwrapped them, someone thought it would be a great way to dispose of the wrapping paper by putting it in the roaring fireplace. It didn't take much to start the chimney ablaze.
Call us today at 254-547-6087 or fill out our online contact form.
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