For the folks who run buildings
Chimney work at building scale.
Inspections, sweeping, masonry, liners and draft fans for landlords, managers, boards, restaurants and storefronts, anywhere on the north side of the metro.
One fireplace is a house call. A building is a trade.
A homeowner has one flue. You have flues that share walls, run three stories, sit over kitchens that burn all day, and top out on rooftops that need real access gear to reach. Riding on all of it: code, insurance and the safety of everybody who rents from you. Plenty of chimney outfits are rigged for the house call. We also carry the property side, and we keep the paper trail tight enough that you can prove every flue was handled, to anyone who asks.
A couple of rentals off Washington Street, a book of doors all across Thornton, a kitchen with a wood hearth that never cools down: whichever one is yours, you deal with one Thornton crew, and the phone gets answered by a person you have met.
The folks who call us
Landlords & rental owners
Between tenants is when problems get caught cheap. We inspect every unit, put it on paper, and that paper is your liability shield.
Property managers
Hand us the whole portfolio in one call. We sort access, work around your tenants, and hand back a report per address.
HOAs & condo boards
Shared flues and stacked units, looked after on a calendar the board can actually budget against. No surprises at assessment time.
Restaurants & hospitality
The flue over your wood oven, grill or hearth stays clean, pulls hard, and passes when the inspector walks in.
Offices, retail & light industrial
Lobby fireplaces, appliance flues, rooftop stacks. We get in, get it done, and your business day barely notices.
Real estate & inspectors
A Level 2 inspection turned around fast, written up clean, so nobody's closing date slips over a chimney.
Watch us on somebody else's roof
Commercial jobs around Thornton with a camera running. Whatever standard you see in these clips is the one your building gets.
What we do for buildings
Every trade we run on houses, scaled up to what a commercial property demands. Any card below opens the long version.
Commercial chimney inspection
Camera down every flue, checked against NFPA 211, whether it is one rooftop stack or a building full of shared systems. The photo-backed write-up goes straight to your owner, insurer or buyer.
The long versionCommercial sweeping & creosote removal
Soot, blockages and creosote pulled out at commercial volume, wood, gas or pellet. That includes the glazed, baked-on layer that busy restaurant and multi-unit flues grow.
The long versionCommercial masonry repair & rebuilds
Tuckpointing, swapping spalled brick, crown rebuilds and partial reconstruction on tall stacks, built to shrug off the freeze-thaw this front-range weather dishes out for decades.
The long versionCommercial relining
Stainless liners cut for commercial appliances and multi-story runs. Old systems get their draft back, their efficiency back, and their standing with the code book back.
The long versionCaps, chase covers & waterproofing
Multi-flue caps, chase covers bent to fit, crown sealing and waterproofing. Water is what quietly bankrupts commercial chimneys, and this is how you cut it off.
The long versionCommercial chimney fans & draft
Powered chimney fans and draft fixes for the stubborn cases: restaurant hearths that smoke, tall buildings that fight the stack effect, appliances that flat refuse to vent.
The long versionMetal & prefabricated chimneys
Factory-built metal and prefab venting, sized to whatever fireplace, insert or appliance your building runs, put in right or put right.
The long versionCommercial dryer vent cleaning
Lint and blockages cleared out of apartment, hotel and shared laundry lines. One of the cheapest fire risks to remove, and your dryers run like they should again.
The long versionInspections that hold up in a file cabinet
On a commercial property, the inspection IS the paper trail. Our techs run the camera and the NFPA 211 checklist through every flue you own, one stack or forty, covering the liner and damper, the smoke chamber, the crown, cap and flashing, and the brick itself. What lands on your desk is a photo-backed written report that an insurer, a buyer or a code official will accept without an argument.
Two moments make that folder worth its weight: the day the property sells and somebody demands a Level 2 inspection, and the day an insurer or board asks you to prove your systems are sound. We keep both moments boring. And every finding gets sorted into "watch it" or "fix it now," so your budget hears about problems before your emergency line does.
Keep it clean, keep it standing
A flue that works every dinner service packs on creosote in months, and once that layer glazes over, you are storing fire fuel inside your own chimney. Our commercial sweeping pulls the soot, blockage and buildup out of wood, gas and pellet systems, with the mess contained so your tenants and customers never see a speck of it.
Up past the roofline, this climate goes to work on tall brick. A hairline crack takes on water, the freeze pries it wider, and hail and high-altitude sun finish what the ice started. We do the tuckpointing, swap the spalled brick, rebuild crowns and seal the whole thing so a small bill now never grows into a structural one later. And when an older stack has lost its pull, a stainless reline sized to the appliance puts it back in service, safe and inside code.
Four steps, start to filed-away
Walk the property
We go through the building with you, flag every flue, appliance and access point, and agree on the scope before anything else happens.
Camera and clipboard
Each system gets the camera and the NFPA 211 checklist, and you get it all back as a written, photo-backed report.
One number, one calendar
A single written quote, and a schedule bent around your tenants, guests and business hours instead of ours.
Do it, document it
The work gets done clean, and every certificate or record an owner, insurer or board could ask you for lands in your inbox.
Two bosses: the code book and the sky
Every commercial chimney up here answers to both. On the code side, NFPA 211 is the standard our work and our write-ups are held to, the City of Thornton permit desk holds no surprises for us, and we can tell you which air-quality rules kick in the moment a system gets modified. For a board or a manager, that translates to inspections your governing documents will accept and caps or chase covers that meet the HOA standard and actually fit the building they are bolted to.
Then the sky gets its say. At a mile of elevation the air is thin enough to change how an appliance drafts. A single season swings through dozens of freezes and thaws, and the Front Range wind spends all winter loosening caps and flashing. Every repair, cap and draft fix we spec is built against the weather your building actually stands in, not a checklist written for somewhere flat and warm.
The money question, answered straight
No flat rate exists, because no two buildings are the same building. Here is what actually moves the number: the count of flues, the height and how hard the roof is to reach, what fuel burns in them and how hard, and whatever repairs the camera turns up. One rooftop inspection sits at the small end. A multi-flue building that needs brick work and a reline is a real project, and we will call it that to your face.
The part that never varies is how the number reaches you: walkthrough first, then one written figure before a single tool comes off the truck. No padding, no fear-pricing. A lot of managers just put us on an annual rotation so the budget line stays flat and no inspection ever lapses. The pricing overview has the broad strokes, or call and ask about your buildings specifically.
Why the smart money stays local
Built for volume
Dozens of units do not need dozens of visits. We map the route, line up access, and knock it out in as few trips as it takes.
Insured, bonded, on paper
Certificate of insurance before we set foot on site if you want it, and a photo-backed write-up on every flue we handle.
Square with NFPA 211 and code
National standards are the floor here, not the ceiling. Your buildings pass, and the people inside them stay safe.
One name, one bill
Quit herding subcontractors. You get one person to call, one consolidated invoice, and terms with no fine print.
In and out quietly
Tenants and guests barely know we came. The space looks the same when we leave, minus the problem.
A Thornton crew
Owned in Thornton, parked in Thornton, and your building gets treated like it has our name on the deed.
What building owners ask us
How often does a commercial chimney need looking at?
NFPA 211 sets the floor: a professional eye on every flue at least once a year. How often it needs sweeping is a usage question. A hearth that burns through every dinner service might need clearing several times a year, while a lobby fireplace that runs twice a winter can go annual. We look at how yours is actually used and put a realistic calendar on it.
Will you hand over insurance certificates and written reports?
Ask and you shall receive. We carry full liability coverage and a bond, and the certificate of insurance can be in your hands before a boot touches the roof. Every inspection leaves behind a photo-backed written report built to satisfy an owner, a board, an insurer or a buyer.
Can one visit cover a whole portfolio?
That is the kind of work we set the company up for. We line up access across buildings, plot the route, and clear dozens of units in one mobilization. From your chair it looks like one schedule, one contact and one invoice.
Do restaurant chimneys fall in your lane?
They do. Wood-fired ovens, grills, gas appliances, commercial hearths: we handle the chimney and venting side of all of them, including the thick creosote a hard-running kitchen flue packs on. The appliance itself is its own trade; the flue above it is ours.
What is commercial work going to run me?
Four things move the number: how many flues, how high and how reachable, what fuel they burn and how hard, and whatever repairs turn up. One rooftop inspection is a modest line item. A multi-flue building needing masonry is a project. Either way the number arrives after a walkthrough, in writing, and it does not grow on the invoice.
Tall stacks, shared flues, rooftop systems, can you reach them?
Yes. That kind of access is half of what separates commercial chimney work from the residential kind, and we show up with the equipment and the experience to work those systems safely.
The whole lineup, house or high-rise
Bring us your building list.
Count up your units, flues and addresses and send them over. Back comes one written number and a calendar that stays out of your tenants' way.