What's Included

Fitting a top damper to your Geneva chimney

Closing the air path through an idle chimney

An open or leaky damper leaves a path between the room and the outdoors. Warm air rises out of the flue, and at other times outside air sinks down it, bringing the smell of the chimney with it. A top damper that seals at the top closes that path whenever the fireplace is not in use.

Our team tests how well the existing damper in your Geneva fireplace closes before recommending a replacement. If it still seals, you keep it. If it does not, the top damper's gasket gives the fireplace a proper closed position again.

When the damper handle will not move

A stuck handle is a reason to stop, not to pull harder. Forcing the cable can bend the lid, snap the cable or pull the bracket out of the firebrick, and a damper that is stuck closed must never have a fire lit under it.

Leave the fireplace unused and call us. Our team checks the damper on your Geneva chimney from the top, frees or repairs the mechanism and confirms that it opens fully before the fireplace goes back into use.

Testing the damper before we leave

An installation is finished only when the damper opens and closes the way it should. Our installers cycle the damper on your Geneva chimney several times, watch the lid from the roof, check that the handle locks and releases cleanly and confirm the lid opens all the way.

You then operate it yourself while we watch, so the positions are clear. The written record of the work notes the damper model, the flue size and the handle position that means closed, which helps anyone who services the chimney later.

Damper findings on a home inspection

A rusted, stuck or missing damper may show up in a home inspection report, but the note seldom says whether the throat damper can be repaired or whether a top damper is the better route.

Share the report with us. Our local specialists will look at the fireplace in your Geneva home at no charge, explain the finding and give you a written price for the repair or the top damper, which you can use in the sale.