A Merrie Sweepe Chimney Service

A Merrie Sweepe has been sweeping and inspecting chimneys out of Portsmouth and Greenland, New Hampshire since 1983, when Bob and Merrie Warner started the company; the family says ownership passed to the next generation in 2020. Its crews are certified through the Chimney Safety Institute of America and the National Fireplace Institute, and the work covers sweeping, inspection, repair, liners, masonry, fireplaces, and dryer vents. The volume here is hard to miss: 5 stars across 1,190 Google ratings, 4.9 on Angi, and 506 reviews on file dating back to 2021. The pattern that repeats is a technician who explains what they found before doing anything -- photographing flues before and after, walking through the report line by line, and in one 2024 visit flying a drone to check a chimney too tall to climb safely. Local papers have taken notice too: in 2023 two employees freed an owl that had gotten stuck in a customer's chimney, and the same year a technician found an animal that had been living in another customer's flue for days. One thing worth asking about directly: a 2026 reviewer said the crew overstated what their chimney needed -- pointing to tile damage and spalling and pushing a stainless-steel liner -- and got a second opinion before agreeing to anything. It's the one sour note in an otherwise long, consistent run, so it's worth having a second set of eyes on any liner recommendation before signing off. For routine sweeps, inspections, or liner and masonry work in the Seacoast area, this is a crew with decades behind it and technicians who show their work -- just get a second opinion if a big repair gets recommended.