Chimney sweep and repair
Fits best: a safety-focused owner comfortable on roofs.
Pros
- ✓Annual inspections and repair upsells
- ✓A service customers already understand and buy
Cons
- !Seasonal, with roof work
- !Reviews and steady marketing decide who wins locally
- !Check your state’s licensing before you start
What to expect
- Year 1
Launch in about 30 days. Learn the work, collect reviews and build toward 20 jobs a month by month 12.
- Year 2
Reach steady volume, around 40 jobs a month in season. Add dryer vent cleaning for the same customers and plan your first hire.
- Year 3
Step from operator to owner. Add masonry repair and liner installs.
A typical path, not a promise. Your Owner Assessment and 3-year playbook set your actual plan.
Sell more to the same customers
Growth path
Add masonry repair and liner installs.
The details
- Vehicle
- Truck
- Repeat customers
- Medium
- Licensing
- Medium
- Season
- Fall–winter
- Runs on
- ProTrak ServiceTrak
CSIA certification; pairs with dryer vents.
*Monthly sales and run rate are illustrative industry benchmarks for one owner-operated crew at steady volume: price per job × typical jobs a month (40), times 7 active months. They are revenue, not profit, and are not projections, promises or EntrepX member results. Basis: published industry sources.