How listings work

Listings are compiled from public business listings and refreshed monthly. We show a company when it has a Google Business Profile in a chimney category within about 20 miles of a city we cover and passes our checks for real local businesses. We also read each listed company's own website to note the services, certifications, prices and service area it states.

What is verified

The business exists on Google Maps, its category, rating, review count and listed hours at the last refresh. Certification badges marked verified were matched by phone, website, or company name and city on the CSIA state listings or the NCSG member and certified-sweep lists on the date shown, and link to that registry. "NCSG member" means membership in the trade association, not a tested credential.

What is not verified

Years in business, insurance, prices and service areas are the company's own statements unless marked otherwise. Treat them as claims. A certification a company names on its own website or profile shows as "stated" until we find it on a registry. A missing certification badge is not a finding; the registries are opt-in.

What we filter out

Profiles on throwaway domains, profiles whose name does not match their website, groups of profiles sharing one identical service menu, batches of empty profiles created minutes apart, and addresses inside big-box stores. The number held out is shown on each city page.

How the price figures work

Two kinds of price, shown side by side and never mixed.

Published: the starting price a company lists for a service on its own Google profile or website. For each company we take its lowest price for the service; the city figure is the median across companies, shown when at least 3 companies in the city publish one.
Reported: dollar amounts customers mentioned in Google reviews in the last 24 months, as a recency-weighted median (reports from the last 12 months count fully, older ones half), shown when at least 8 reports exist for the service. They are mentions, not quotes. Amounts outside a plausible range for the service, and figures that are discounts, add-on charges or comparisons rather than a company's own price, are excluded. A price on a company card is either published by that company or the median of at least 3 customer reports for it; one customer's number is never shown as a company's price. Advertised starting prices run lower than what customers report paying, because a $99 inspection special is often paired with a repair recommendation, so ask what the price includes.

Report a problem

Email hello@chimneycompare.com with the listing URL. Closed businesses are removed at the next refresh; wrong facts are corrected within a week.