About this site
How this site works
The short version: we are a referral website, not a chimney company. This page spells out the rest.
Who answers when you call
The phone number on this site, (203) 555-0147, connects you to an independent local chimney company working in Bridgeport and the surrounding towns. More than one company takes calls from this site; we forward each call to one of them. None of them are us. They run their own businesses, carry their own registrations, set their own prices, and stand behind their own work. We route the call; they take it from there.
How we make money
We are not a chimney contractor; we are a referral website. The companies that receive calls from this site may pay us a referral fee for the inquiries we send. That is the whole business model. You never pay us anything, and the price you are quoted is between you and the company that takes the job. We do not add a markup, take a cut of the job, or sell your information to a list of bidders.
Why we built this site
Search for chimney repair in Bridgeport and you will find a stack of near-identical websites with stock photos, no named sources, and copy that could be about any city in America. We thought the market deserved one site that does the homework: real numbers about Bridgeport's housing stock, what Connecticut actually requires of contractors, and honest cost figures with the reasoning behind them. Every local claim on this site traces to a source we link at the bottom of the page it appears on.
What we are not
- We are not a chimney or masonry company, and we never claim to be.
- We have no crews, no trucks, and no certifications of our own.
- We do not post reviews or testimonials, because we have no customers to review us.
- We do not list a business address in Bridgeport, because we are not a local storefront.
Check any company yourself
Connecticut requires home improvement contractors to register with the Department of Consumer Protection, and chimney repair falls under that rule. Before any work starts, through this site or anywhere else, ask for the company's HIC registration number and look it up on the state's eLicense lookup. A legitimate pro will not mind. The state's own advice on hiring chimney contractors is worth two minutes: What to Know About Chimney Cleaning and Repair (CT DCP).
Your information
If you use the contact form, what you submit goes to the company we forward it to so they can call you back, and nowhere else. Details in our privacy policy.
Questions about the site itself? Use the contact page and say so in your message. Site matters reach us; repair questions reach the company that calls you back.