Chimney sweep in Riga - chimney and flue cleaning with a certificate

Chimney sweep services

Our chimney sweep services cover the whole life of a flue: the yearly cleaning, documents, inspection, repair and building a new chimney. Each job has its own page with a description, the price or what the price depends on, and the most common questions.

• Chimney cleaning: removing soot and tar from the top or from the bottom, the flue pipe and the cleaning doors, including boiler flue cleaning. From €100 for one flue, certificate included.
• Fireplace and stove cleaning: fireplaces, tiled stoves, wood-burning cookers and sauna stoves together with their flue channels. From €100.
• Chimney sweep's condition report: a technical condition inspection every 5 years, before replacing a heating appliance, for a gas boiler, when buying a house or for insurance. Price depends on the job.
• Camera inspection: checking the flue with a camera that shows cracks, crumbled joints and blockages; the recording can be attached to the inspection certificate. Price depends on the job.
• Chimney lining: fitting a stainless steel liner in an old brick chimney, for example for a new boiler or after a chimney fire. Price depends on the job.
• Chimney repair: rebuilding the chimney head, rendering, sealing cracks and fitting a chimney cap. Price depends on the job.
• Chimney installation: modular and stainless steel chimneys, a flue through the wall, sauna flues. Price depends on the job.
• Ventilation duct cleaning: cleaning and checking natural ventilation ducts in private houses and apartment buildings. Price depends on the job.

How it works

1. Request In the form, give the address, what needs doing and what you know about the heating: a stove, fireplace or boiler, the fuel, how many flues and when the chimney was last cleaned. You can send a request at any time.
2. We contact you within 5 minutes After you submit the form, we contact you within 5 minutes, clarify the job, name the price or what it will depend on, and agree on a day.
3. Work on site The chimney sweep looks at the heating appliance, the flue pipe and the cleaning doors. The flue is cleaned with brushes and flexible rods from the top or from the bottom, depending on the chimney and access to the roof. The soot is taken out through the cleaning doors so that it does not spill into the room, and finally the draught is checked.
4. Certificate After the work you receive a certificate with a description of the flue, the cleaner's name, their qualification document and a statement on the result of the work. If we find damage, we record it in the certificate and offer the repair separately; we do it only if you agree.

How often a chimney must be cleaned

Under Cabinet Regulation No. 238, a solid-fuel flue is cleaned before the heating season, by 1 November. For long-burn appliances that store heat for no longer than three hours (usually heating boilers, metal stoves and sauna stoves), the flue is cleaned once more between 1 November and 1 March. A brick flue for gas and liquid fuel is checked and cleaned once a year, and a lined, ceramic or metal one once every two years. Solid-fuel and liquid-fuel flues need a technical condition inspection with a certificate every 5 years. More: how often to clean a chimney. Regulations checked 04.11.2026; from 2 January 2027 they will be replaced by new fire safety regulations, which we will check as soon as they are adopted.

Qualified chimney sweep and certificate

The work is done by a qualified chimney sweep, and the certificate states their qualification document. The fire safety regulations require this: the cleaning certificate must show the name and number of the cleaner's education, qualification or practice certificate. A technical condition inspection certificate may be drawn up by a qualified chimney sweep or stove and fireplace mason, a construction specialist in the relevant field or a fire safety engineer.

The words “certified chimney sweeps” usually mean craftsmen to whom the Latvian Chamber of Crafts (LAK) has awarded a journeyman's or master's diploma as a chimney sweep and a practice certificate. The LAK register is public, and you can check the validity of any chimney sweep's certificate in it. In their policy terms, the insurers BTA, Balta and ERGO require flues to be cleaned at least once a year, so keep the certificate and the invoice. More: chimney report for insurance.

The owner of a private house may also clean their own solid-fuel chimney themselves, and then no certificate has to be drawn up. A certificate is needed if someone else does the cleaning or if the heating runs on gas or liquid fuel, and in an apartment building it is always needed. More: can you clean your own chimney.

Prices

Chimney or flue cleaning costs from €100, usually €100–130. The price includes one flue, the certificate and call-out in Riga and the Riga region. Cleaning the flue channels of a fireplace, stove or sauna stove costs from €100, and heating boiler flue cleaning also from €100. Prices include VAT.

The other jobs are priced for your situation: condition reports, camera inspection, lining, repair, installation and ventilation ducts. The price depends on the length and diameter of the flue, the height of the chimney and access to the roof, the fuel, the materials and whether several jobs are done on one visit. The specialist names the price after your request, before the work. All prices and examples: prices.

If soot is burning in the chimney

If the chimney roars, sparks fly from its top or the flue wall gets hot, call 112 first and follow the firefighters' instructions. The form is meant for the work afterwards. Burning soot damages the flue and helps micro-cracks form, and using a damaged flue is forbidden, so the flue must be checked before the next fire. Deliberately burning out soot is also forbidden.

In the first nine months of 2025, the State Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD) put out burning soot in the flues of Latvian homes 261 times. What to do: chimney soot fire; the check afterwards: chimney check after a soot fire.

Where we work

We work all over Riga: in pre-war masonry buildings with several flues in one chimney and in neighbourhoods of private houses, for example Mežaparks, Bieriņi, Torņakalns and Trīsciems. All neighbourhoods: chimney sweep in Riga by neighbourhood.

In the Riga region we go to Mārupe, Ķekava, Ādaži, Salaspils, Jūrmala, Sigulda and elsewhere. All places: areas we cover.