About Narrow Gauge Chimney

We sweep and inspect chimneys, fit caps and spark arrestors, and service wood stoves and inserts across Durango, Cortez and Bayfield. That is the whole list. We are not a masonry contractor and we do not sell stoves or fireplaces, which means nothing we recommend is pointed at a second invoice.

The name is the town's own. The Durango & Silverton narrow gauge has been running out of here since 1882, and a narrow gauge is a small-diameter passage that has to be kept clear - which is close enough to the job to be worth borrowing.

How pricing works

You get a firm number before work starts and that is the number on the invoice. If we open something up and find a genuine surprise, we stop and show you with the camera, and you decide. Nothing gets added that you have not looked at first.

Cortez and Bayfield are route days, not call-outs

We batch the outlying towns onto scheduled days rather than driving 45 miles for one job. That is what lets us charge the same rate everywhere instead of adding travel. The trade-off is honest and worth stating: we are not the right call for a same-day emergency in Montezuma County.

On the wildfire and insurance side

We fit caps and spark arrestors and we document them. We do not promise you a premium discount, because we cannot see your carrier's wildfire model and anyone who claims to is inventing it. What we know is that Colorado law now requires carriers using those models to disclose your risk score and credit mitigation you have completed - and that work nobody wrote down cannot be credited at all. So the deliverable is the paperwork as much as the hardware.

What we will talk you out of

• Sweeping a flue that is not due this year
• A liner when the real problem is how the fire gets lit
• A new stove when the old one needs a gasket and a baffle
• Any roof work that can safely wait for dry weather