Safe Sweep Chimney

Safe Sweep Chimney is a two-person Bourne shop built around one man's trade. The site puts Brian Burkhead's hands-on chimney and masonry experience at about 37 years, trained under a master mason named Emerson Coleman and a graduate of the International Masonry Institute. The company is younger than the marketing reads. Its site advertises 30-plus years of chimney care; the Better Business Bureau, which lists the business at 4 Bosuns Ln in Bourne under the same phone number, records it as started on 1 January 2017 — nine years — with two employees. Both can be true at once: a long career, a shorter company. It is worth knowing which of the two you are buying. The work covers the whole chimney list — sweeping and seasonal cleaning, repair from mortar repointing through firebox rebuilds, stainless steel and FireGuard relining, waterproofing and caps — with a Level 2 video inspection run alongside most sweeps. The reach runs from Cape Cod across the South Shore and South Coast into Newport County, Rhode Island; Hyannis to Plymouth to Providence, as the company puts it. The one homeowner on record hits the notes that matter. In a January Nextdoor thread, a North Dartmouth neighbor passed along the number and described him as very thorough and reasonably priced. The BBB profile carries no grade at all — the bureau says it has too little information to rate the business, and it is not accredited — so that page neither helps nor hurts. For a seasonal sweep, a liner that has reached the end, or a chimney check before a sale on the Cape or South Coast, this is a small outfit where the experienced owner is the one on the roof. Ask him to date the company as well as the career, and get the Level 2 video findings on your own screen before agreeing to any repair.