Clare County
Chimney Service in Clare County
Clare County sits in the centre of the Lower Peninsula, with Harrison as the county seat and the city of Clare marketed for generations as the gateway to northern Michigan. It is heavily wooded, with a large number of inland lakes and a substantial seasonal-cabin population.
Cabins and hunting camps are the defining building type here, and they are the property class most likely to have an appliance installed by a previous owner without documentation – an insert fitted into an old fireplace, or a stove vented into a flue that was never sized for it.
Undocumented Appliances in Clare County Cabins
When we inspect a camp property for the first time, the question is often not whether the chimney is dirty but whether the installation is correct at all. Wrong flue diameter, missing liner, inadequate clearance to combustible framing and improvised connector pipe are all things we find on cabins that have been heated this way for years without incident.
Without incident is not the same as safe. A Level 2 inspection with a camera is the appropriate step when you buy a property like this or when you do not know who installed what.