stay away from this company! My fiancé called this company at the end of January for an inspection and cleaning for our chimney in the house we just purchased. When the technician came out, he immediately began his inspection, which did not seem to involve. However, red flags immediately went up when he told me he needed to go outside to call his boss because he found problems with the chimney. Granted, this house was built in 1978 so our expectation was that it probably needed some minor work done. When the technician came back, he was very hard to understand due to his European accent, but what he told me was that my chimney was the worst he's ever seen and then proceeded to give me a quote for the repairs needed. The quote was for over $4000 and included things that the technician said needed to be done they did not even provide the cleaning only the inspection which was mediocre at best. Due to the red flags and concerns that I saw I told I was going to reach out for a second opinion. The technician even said that if I he me a better discount which immediately set off alarm bells in my mind.
Flash forward to yesterday I had a local, well-known chimney, mason, inspect and clean the chimney. He stated to me that the chimney looked completely normal for a house being built in the late 70s and it did need some minor work done. He provided me with a quote to re-mortar the fire box Which came to a total of $500. This chimney mason said that Almost all of the services that New England chimney solution said I needed were in fact untrue.
This company uses the classic scare tactic scam. When they do their inspection, they will tell you you have far more issues than you actually do. This is a classic tactic in order to get unknowing customers to pay more for services that they do not need.
Furthermore, it took more than three calls to the company for them to send me an actual inspection report with photos. The company is so unorganized that they actually sent another customers inspection report before sending mine.
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