Top Hat Chimney in Indiana

Top Hat Chimney in Indiana

Top Hat Chimney delivers chimney cleaning and repair across Indiana with a promise you can hold in your hand. Since 1999, Wendell has swept, inspected, and repaired flues in the same communities where he shops on Saturday mornings. Every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise stamped in writing, one call brings him back, and the price he gives on the phone is the price on the invoice. As part of the Locally family, Top Hat Chimney answers to the same standard Ward Selby set in 1997: a real name, a real address, a real license number, and a live person on the line.

Why Indiana Homeowners Choose Top Hat Chimney

We’ve all heard the story. You call a number from a listing, the truck that pulls up has plates from two states away, and the price at the door somehow tripled since breakfast. By the time you realize the work’s not right, the number’s disconnected and the company name has already changed. That’s exactly what Ward Selby kept hearing from neighbors back in 1997, and it’s exactly why Top Hat Chimney operates the way it does.

Wendell started this work in 1999, and he’s still the one answering the phone at odd hours, not a call center in another time zone. When you book a sweep, you get a real arrival window, not “sometime Tuesday.” If traffic backs up on I-69 or a previous job runs long, his phone rings and he tells you. The technicians who show up wear uniforms, pass background checks, and know the difference between a clay flue and a stainless liner because Wendell trained them himself.

The pricing works like this: he looks at what you describe, gives you a number, and that number doesn’t budge when the truck arrives. No trip charge inside the county. $40 off any repair over $200. Ten percent off always for seniors and veterans. And if you’ve got a written estimate from someone else, Wendell will give you a free second opinion because he’s seen too many homeowners sold a full rebuild when a HeatShield resurfacing would do the job.

He works with brands that last: DuraFlex liners, HeatShield cerfractory sealant, Gelco caps, Olympia Chimney systems, Famco venting, and Copperfield supplies. These aren’t mystery parts from a warehouse nobody can name. They’re what he trusts in his own community’s chimneys, and he’ll tell you why if you ask.

The 90-Day Done Right Promise isn’t a slogan on a magnet. It’s stamped on every work order. If something isn’t right, one call brings Wendell back. He puts his name on the work because he lives twenty minutes from most of his customers and he’s going to run into you again at the grocery. That’s the oldest accountability mechanism there is.

Backed by the Locally Family

Every Top Hat Chimney job in Indiana carries the Locally guarantee. That means Wendell’s name, his local address, and his license number are published where you can verify them before you ever pick up the phone. The person who answers is the person who shows up. The price on the phone is the price on the invoice. No franchise playbook, no rotating crews, no out-of-state billing department. Just the L.O.C.A.L. code: real roots in this county, a window we keep, hiring and buying here, an owner who answers for his work, and a relationship built for twenty years not one big ticket. Ward Selby started Locally with a simple complaint and a shorter list. Top Hat Chimney still lives by it.

Written by Wendell, Owner at Top Hat Chimney, serving Indiana since 1999.