Top Hat Chimney in Florida

Top Hat Chimney in Florida

Top Hat Chimney has been sweeping, inspecting, and repairing chimneys across Florida since 1999. That’s over twenty-nine years of climbing roofs in the same communities, not a franchise that rotated in last spring. Owner Wendell runs every job with the same standard: a live person answers when you call, the price on the phone matches the price on the invoice, and his 90-Day Done Right Promise is stamped on every job in writing. As part of the Locally family, Top Hat Chimney carries a guarantee Florida homeowners can verify before a single tool comes off the truck - Wendell’s name, his local address, and his license number published right where you can see them.

Why Florida Homeowners Choose Top Hat Chimney

Wendell started Top Hat Chimney in 1999 because he saw the same thing Ward Selby saw two years earlier - homeowners getting quoted one price on the phone and watching it triple when the truck showed up. In Florida’s small towns and rural counties, word gets around fast. Wendell figured the only way to stay in business for twenty-nine years was to be the guy people recognize at the hardware store on Saturday.

Here’s how that actually works when you call. A live person answers, around the clock. No voicemail box, no call center in another time zone. It might be Wendell himself. He’ll give you a real arrival window, and if traffic on I-75 or a summer thunderstorm pushes him late, he calls. His technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and they show up in trucks that carry Wendell’s own name. Before a single brush goes up your flue, you get upfront pricing in writing. The number you hear is the number on the invoice, period.

Wendell backs every chimney cleaning and repair with his 90-Day Done Right Promise - if it’s not done right, one call brings him back. No charge for that. He works with trusted industry brands like DuraFlex, HeatShield, Gelco, Olympia Chimney, Famco, and Copperfield, and he offers $40 off any repair over $200, plus free second opinions on any written estimate you bring him. Seniors and veterans get 10% off, always. No trip charge inside the county. Ask anyone on your street - Wendell lives twenty minutes away, and he’ll be there himself.

Backed by the Locally Family

Top Hat Chimney joined the Locally family because Wendell already lived by the same code. Locally was born in 1997 when Ward Selby wrote down what a homeowner could verify in five minutes: a local phone number a person answers, an address you can drive to, the owner’s name and face, and a license number you can look up. Any company that publishes all four can carry the name. The mission is simple - make “are you actually local?” a question you can answer before you call, not after you’ve been burned.

That means every Top Hat Chimney job across Florida is held to the L.O.C.A.L. values: Local roots with an address in this county, not a call center three states away; On time with a window that means something; Community first, hiring here and buying here; Accountable, with Wendell answering the phone and putting his name on the work; Loyal, because he’d rather keep you for twenty years than win one big ticket. The word “Locally” is the answer to the only question this customer actually asks. Not a place, not a founder, not a virtue - the word they say out loud when they’re deciding whether to trust you.

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