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About Us
AM Cleaning Services USA provides chimney cleaning and sweeping for homes across Minneapolis, St. Paul and 22 Twin Cities communities. We remove creosote, soot and debris from the flue and firebox so your fireplace or wood stove drafts properly and burns safely through the Minnesota heating season.
Have your chimney inspected once a year, and swept whenever creosote buildup warrants it. If you burn wood regularly through a Minnesota winter, that generally means an annual cleaning. Occasional-use and gas fireplaces still need the yearly inspection even when they need sweeping less often.
Watch for smoke entering the room instead of drawing up the flue, a strong campfire or tarry odor from the fireplace, a black or shiny tar-like coating visible inside the flue, fires that are hard to start or will not stay lit, and soot falling into the firebox. Any of these warrants an inspection before your next fire.
Creosote is the tar-like residue left behind when wood smoke cools and condenses on the flue wall. It is highly flammable, and enough buildup can ignite inside the chimney. Removing it is the core safety reason to sweep a chimney rather than a cosmetic one.
A cleaning, or sweep, physically removes creosote, soot and debris from the flue and firebox. An inspection is an assessment of the chimney's condition — the liner, crown, flashing, cap and masonry — to identify damage or hazards. They are complementary: the inspection tells you what the chimney needs, the sweep does the cleaning.
Yes. Alongside cleaning we handle chimney repair and rebuilding, tuckpointing, crown repair and rebuilding, flashing repair, liner replacement, smoke chamber repair and cap replacement. If a sweep uncovers a problem, we can explain the repair options and quote the work.