Our story
A workshop named for the old town.
We took our name from Arvada's historic district on purpose. It is a promise about how the work gets done: patiently, honestly, and to a standard the old bricklayers would recognize.
Arvada, CO
Locally owned
The Olde Town Chimney crew · Sweeps & masons
The same streets by day that we go home to at night.
From Ralston Creek to your rooftop
The trade came
with the town.
Arvada begins with a glint in creek gravel: the 1850 gold strike at Ralston Creek, the first of its kind recorded in Colorado. The settlement that followed raised itself in brick, and that brick still stands in Olde Town beneath the water tower. Wherever brick went up, chimneys went with it, and wherever there were chimneys, there was our trade. We took the district's name because it names our standard: build carefully, from honest material, and the work outlives you.
A chimney is where that standard proves itself or does not. Arvada's rooftops run the whole story: farmhouse flues from the early 1900s, squat postwar stacks, and the fresh builds out toward Candelas and Leyden. Winter tries them all the same way, working water into every tired joint. The craft is in the telling: which stack merely wants its brushes, which wants a liner, and which wants a mason at the bench, and saying so honestly.
The workshop sits in Arvada and the rounds stay in Arvada: Olde Town's storefronts, the postwar blocks along Ralston Road, and the new builds out toward Candelas and Leyden. One town, known street by street.
Your house gets the same manners our own do: cloths spread before a tool comes in, tidy habits throughout, and a straight telling of what we found and what it will take. No frightening anyone into repairs, no numbers that grow after the handshake. Just the trade, practiced properly.
Safety before all else
The work is held to the NFPA standard because a hearth guards a family, and that is the whole job.
New tools, old patience
The camera goes up the flue and the mortar knife stays sharp. Each gets used where it belongs.
The written number holds
The quote goes on paper before the work begins, and nothing gets added to it after.
We know these walls
Front Range freeze-thaw pries at old joints the same way every winter. We have learned its habits and how to beat it.
The rules of the bench
A standard is a promise kept.
Most of this trade is discipline: work to the standard, respect the material, and account plainly for what was done.
Swept to NFPA 211
Brushwork and inspections follow the national standard for chimneys, hearths and vents, not our mood.
Licensed & insured
The paperwork behind the trade is in order on every job, local and state alike.
Old walls, honest repairs
Century brick gets mortar matched to its softness and joints struck to its style, never a hard smear over the top.
Tools kept sharp.
A well-kept kit catches more, harms less, and leaves nothing behind but the work.
The camera up the flue
A patient look inside the stack without opening a wall.
Measured, never guessed
Liners, caps and dampers sized at the flue with a tape, not from the ground.
The vacuum runs throughout
Soot stays in the machine, not on the mantel.
Materials chosen with care
Kind to the house, the wall and the folks living inside.
The word we give you.
Four plain promises, kept on every visit, or the shop hears about it from us first.
One written number
The quote you sign is the bill you pay.
On time, as promised
When the board says morning, the truck comes in the morning.
A tidy handover
Drop cloths up, floors swept, the room as we found it.
Answered out of hours
A chimney in trouble does not check the clock, so neither do we.
A shop in its town
The counter is always open.
Advice over the counter
Puzzled by a smell, a stain, a noise in the flue? Ring and describe it. A tradesman's opinion costs nothing.
Guardians of old walls
Brick from the streetcar days gets repairs suited to its age and softness, never a hard modern smear.
The crew & the craft
Hands at the work.
The same faces on the ladders and at the hearths, day in and day out, all over Arvada.
The trade on film
Watch the trade.
A camera rides along on our jobs: the chimney sweeping, the masonry mending, the cap fitting, all of it as it happened.
A homeowner rarely gets to stand on the ridge and watch the trade work, so we bring the camera up instead. What the film shows is what your own roof would get: the same hands, the same care, nothing added for show.
- The Olde Town Chimney crew
Bring your chimney to the bench.
The first look costs nothing, the quote goes in writing, and the work gets done proper.