Chimney inspection in Northfield Township

Old farms toward Ann Arbor

Our service area is the southern half of Northfield Township, toward Ann Arbor. Most of Whitmore Lake is outside it, so if you live up there, call first.

German families settled in Ann Arbor and Northfield Township in large numbers in the 1920s. In 1938, five of those families put money down on ten acres on Pontiac Trail, and the place became German Park, which went on the National Register in 2025. Groves Farm, on Sutton Road, was listed in 2023. Farmhouses here have been heated many ways over the years. A chimney built for a wood stove might later have served a furnace, then been left with only a water heater, or nothing at all. From the outside, the chimney in the photo gives no clue what's connected to it. Inside, there may be an old stovepipe hole that was covered with a metal plate, a furnace flue next to a fireplace flue, or a liner someone added later. We find each one and tell you what it's doing.

When to book one

Any of these is a reason to book one:

• You're buying or selling a farmhouse or a house on acreage.
• You've added a wood stove or an insert, or changed the furnace.
• You have a newer house with a factory-built fireplace and don't know when it was last checked.
• There's been a chimney fire, or a storm has hit the roof.

Level 1 or Level 2

A Level 1 inspection is $49 and covers the fireplace or stove, the flue and the outside of the chimney. We walk you through what we found, and the $49 is credited toward any repair or service we do after it.

A Level 2 is $149. It adds the chimney sections in the attic, the basement and any crawl space, and a camera through the flue. That's the one for home sales, for changes to the heating system, and after a fire or storm. The camera alone can be added to a Level 1 for $75. Our chimney inspection levels guide explains which fits your situation. If the flue turns out to need sweeping, a cleaning is $349 and includes the inspection.