Soot Slayer Inc, The.

Based in Spokane Valley, the shop travels roughly 25 miles out. A residential mechanical permit in Chattaroy in 2020 shows stove or venting work reaching into the north county. Between 2009 and 2019 the business filed public-works jobs for SNAP and the Spokane Housing Authority, nearly always as prime contractor and with apprentices on the job. The state lists Richard Allen and Opal Allen as principals since 2007, with Michael Watry and Jamie Watry added in 2024. The business describes itself as family-owned. This is a chimney and hearth specialist, not a builder. The service list stays with one kind of work: annual sweeps before the heating season, fireplace inspections, cracked masonry and leaking crowns, and installing or repairing wood and pellet stoves from the brands it carries. A homeowner planning a remodel, an addition, or new electrical and plumbing will want a general builder for that and can bring in a chimney shop for the hearth piece. With chimneys, the gap between a small job and a big one is wide. A yearly cleaning or a new raincap is routine, and any competent sweep can handle it. Relining a flue, rebuilding a crown, or swapping an old fireplace for an insert or stove is different work. It involves venting clearances and a mechanical permit, and it calls for someone who knows the specific appliance. In older Spokane houses with original brick chimneys, an inspection often turns a simple sweep into a repair conversation. It helps to hire a shop that handles both, so the same people who find the problem can fix it.