Chimney goat Waltham

Chimney Goat Waltham works chimneys and fireplaces from a Waltham base — the company's own site names Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Watertown, Wellesley and Weston as its service area, and describes itself as veteran-owned. Nearly forty Google reviews from 2026 tell a consistent story: a technician who explains what's wrong before touching anything, and a job finished cleanly. The work reviewers describe spans routine maintenance and real repairs. There are sweeps and inspections, a new liner installed after the old one showed wear, and a chimney cap fitted to a red brick chimney. In a late-June review, a Newton homeowner described a chimney crown that had cracked all the way through and was letting water into the flue, handled "efficiently and at a price that didn't make me fall out of my chair." Another customer, in their second year using the company for an annual sweep, said the technician flagged a small crack starting in the crown "without pushing me into anything" — the kind of unprompted heads-up that keeps someone coming back. Pricing comes up more than once and lands the same way each time: an early-July reviewer called a crown repair fairly priced, and a May review said the prices "matched the excellent quality of service provided." No reviewer describes a surprise cost or a job that ran long. One thing worth asking about before calling: the reviews, while consistently positive, mostly describe the same handful of jobs — sweeps, inspections, liners, caps, crown repairs — so it's worth being specific about your own situation (a full rebuild, a persistent leak, waterproofing) since the deepest track record here is with routine maintenance and mid-size repairs rather than larger restorations. For a Waltham-area homeowner dealing with a smoky fireplace, a failed cap, or a crown starting to crack, this is a company with a real, recent volume of first-hand accounts backing up the basics: technicians show up when they say they will, explain what they're doing, and clean up after. Confirm the scope of the job up front, since the clearest evidence here is for maintenance and targeted repair work.