Chimney Savers LLC works out of 14 Lanes Ten Acres Road in Merrimac, and its own site describes a locally owned family business founded in 1997 by Jeffrey Wright, who is listed as the owner and a historic restoration specialist. The Better Business Bureau file records the same owner, three employees, a business start of January 1998 and LLC incorporation in January 2016, and also files the company under the alternate names HomeSavers Chimney Service and HomeSavers Pest Control.
The work itself is chimneys: sweeping, video-scan inspection, stainless liner installation, caps and dampers, and chimney masonry construction and repair, with air-duct and dryer-vent cleaning alongside it. The permit record is the clearest picture of what they are actually hired for — six permitted jobs between 2016 and 2024 in Merrimac, West Newbury, Beverly and Middleton, valued between $2,500 and $20,000, and almost all of them chimney rebuilds, stainless steel liner installs and wood-stove insert fittings. A March 2024 Merrimac permit covers a chimney repair with a wood-stove fireplace insert and a heavy-duty stainless flue liner at $11,200; a 2020 West Newbury permit covers two chimneys relined for two woodstoves at $18,950.
The only customer voice on file is a neighbourhood one. On a Nextdoor thread in October 2025, a Newbury resident answering a request for recommendations named the company's chimney sweep and wrote that Jimmy at Chimney Savers is great, linking the company's own contact page. It is a short endorsement rather than a description of a job, so treat it as one neighbour's word — but it is a real one, from the next town over.
The credential side is solid and checkable. Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration 182396 is verified active against the state registry, and the registry's holder of record is Chimney Savers LLC itself rather than a differently named entity. The company prints that same number on its own website, and the BBB grades the file A+ while noting the business is not BBB accredited. The site states its technicians are CSIA certified and that its masonry foreman holds a construction supervisor licence.
What is thin is the rated record: neither BuildZoom nor the BBB carries a single review or star rating, so nothing shows how homeowners judged finished work, scheduling or pricing. Two smaller things are worth raising on a first call — the stated history varies between the company's own site (founded 1997) and the BBB file (business started 1998, incorporated as an LLC in 2016), and the BBB lists a second location in Saugus alongside the Merrimac address, so confirm which office is handling the job.
For a homeowner around Merrimac, West Newbury or Newburyport who needs a chimney relined, a wood stove or insert fitted, or masonry rebuilt, this is a licensed, permit-active local specialist with recent work on the public record and one neighbour vouching for its sweep. Ask for references and for the CSIA certification and licence numbers in writing, since the public review record cannot supply either.