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Chimney Sweeps work in Seattle
Seattle's chimney work is shaped by a housing stock full of older brick chimneys in neighbourhoods like Ballard, Wallingford, Queen Anne and Beacon Hill, and by a wet climate that pushes water into masonry and makes creosote and liner problems worse. The trade around the city runs from small owner operators working out of a truck to a handful of multi crew firms, and the searches split the same way: people look for a sweep by neighbourhood, by the kind of chimney they have, and by the problem they have noticed. Demand is steady through the year with a clear lift as the heating season starts. Paid search on the obvious terms is contested by the larger firms, which leaves the long tail of neighbourhood and problem specific searches open to a business that publishes for them.
