Andrew & Sons Chimney was built around a straightforward frustration: too many Framingham homeowners were calling us after a chimney fire or a CO alarm event that a proper annual inspection would have prevented. The business grew out of years of field work across Middlesex County, where we kept seeing the same patterns — clay liner cracks misread as cosmetic, smoke-chamber corbeling never cleaned, crowns repaired with the wrong mortar that cracked again the following winter. We started Andrew & Sons specifically to raise the standard of what a chimney service visit should deliver, grounding every job in the NFPA 211 framework and plain-language communication that homeowners can actually act on.
Our technicians are not general handymen picking up chimney work seasonally. Each one is trained to the CSIA curriculum, stays current on Massachusetts building code amendments, and carries the equipment to perform video flue inspections on every applicable visit. We serve the full range of Framingham's housing stock — from 1920s brick-and-clay colonials near the Framingham Centre Common to gas-insert installations in newer subdivisions off Speen Street — which means our crew has hands-on experience with virtually every chimney configuration and liner type encountered in this region. That breadth of real-world exposure is what separates a competent diagnosis from a guess.
We are fully licensed and insured to operate in Massachusetts, and we stand behind our work with a written labor warranty on all installation and repair services. Our pricing is transparent and provided in writing before work begins — no verbal estimates that balloon at invoice time. We offer free safety estimates because we believe access to accurate chimney safety information shouldn't depend on a homeowner's willingness to commit to a purchase. Framingham families trust us with one of the most consequential safety systems in their homes, and we take that responsibility seriously in everything from how we train our technicians to how we write our inspection reports.
