About Ponderosa Chimney

We sweep and inspect chimneys, repair and waterproof crowns, and service wood and pellet stoves across Show Low, Pinetop-Lakeside and Snowflake. That is the whole list. We are not a masonry contractor and we do not sell stoves or fireplaces, which means nothing we recommend is pointed at a second invoice.

The name is the tree. The White Mountains sit in the largest continuous stand of ponderosa pine in the world, and just about everything on this website - the firewood, the needles in your flue, the shade keeping your chimney damp - comes back to it one way or another.

How pricing works

You get a firm number before work starts and that is the number on the invoice. If we open something up and find a genuine surprise, we stop and photograph it, and you decide. Nothing gets added that you have not looked at first - and if you are three hours away in the Valley, that means it gets emailed to you before we carry on.

Absentee owners get photographs, not descriptions

A large share of the property we work on belongs to people who are not there. Being asked to authorise work on a roof you cannot see, on the word of somebody you have not met, is exactly the position this trade has historically exploited. So the deliverable is dated before-and-after photographs and a plain written note, emailed, every time.

Snowflake and Taylor are route days

We batch the outlying towns onto scheduled days rather than driving twenty-five miles for one job. That is what lets us charge the same rate everywhere instead of adding travel. The trade-off is worth stating: we are not the right call for a same-day emergency down there.

What we will talk you out of

• Sweeping a flue that is not due this year
• A control board when the real fault is a caked exhaust blower
• A new stove when the old one needs a gasket and a baffle
• Any crown or sealing work booked in the wrong season to cure properly