Wood stove service. Cleaning, gaskets, and inspection.

A stove has a sealed firebox, baffle, secondary burn tubes, and often a catalytic combustor, none of which are in a fireplace. We disassemble those parts, clean each one, and put it back together to manufacturer spec. Fireplace sweep is mostly the flue. Stove service is the stove plus the flue.

Old test: close a dollar bill in the door and try to pull it out. If it slides, the gasket is shot. Visual signs: glass blackens fast, fire is hard to control, secondary burn never engages, wood burns through faster than it used to. Gaskets are a $30 part and a 30-minute job, the highest-payoff stove maintenance you can do.

Yes. Cats need cleaning every season and replacement every 6–10 years (or 12,000 hours of burn time). We carry common cats for Blaze King, Woodstock, Vermont Castings, and Buck. If your stove uses a manufacturer-only cat, we order it and schedule the install.

Pellet stoves are different work, burn pot scraping, auger inspection, exhaust fan cleaning, vacuum flue cleaning, and ash compartment service. Annual service is essential because pellet ash is fine and abrasive and clogs the exhaust path quickly. Plan on $269–$389 per visit depending on stove model.

Not really. The secondary burn tubes need careful cleaning and inspection for cracks. The catalysts (in cat models) need annual attention. Otherwise the work is the same as older stoves, and the EPA Phase 3 designs actually run cleaner, so the flue side of the service is usually faster.