How Can Flue & Hearth Notes™ Help My Business?
Flue & Hearth Notes™ Inspection Forms are a great tool for training beginning chimney sweeps!
What makes the Flue & Hearth Notes™ Chimney Inspection System unique?
It creates uniformity for chimney inspections within your company.
It eliminates difficulties in writing reports because essential data is captured, which minimizes missed data and return visits.
Are you the only person you trust to perform a chimney inspection? If everyone is on the same page, they should be gathering the same data. Is this happening?
Does possible litigation keep you awake at night? Use these forms to ensure your team doesn’t miss inspection items, especially on those tiring busy fall days.
At the end of the day, do your inspection reports make you feel like you and your team did their best?
Our Forms include:
It creates uniformity for chimney inspections within your company.
It eliminates difficulties in writing reports because essential data is captured, which minimizes missed data and return visits.
Are you the only person you trust to perform a chimney inspection? If everyone is on the same page, they should be gathering the same data. Is this happening?
Does possible litigation keep you awake at night? Use these forms to ensure your team doesn’t miss inspection items, especially on those tiring busy fall days.
At the end of the day, do your inspection reports make you feel like you and your team did their best?
Our Forms include:
- No monthly fees – buy it and own it. One-time fee. (Note: Unless you want updates for geographical differences).
- Customizable
- Our comprehensive forms are based on the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 211 Levels of Inspection (Level 1 & 2) and inspection items listed in the Addendum.
- Eight installation types are available for the Standard Short Form and Summary Forms.
- Five installation types are covered in the Long Form which covers the same ground as the eight forms above.
- Within the Standard Short Form, Green Boxes are segmented into areas of the chimney—for instance, chimney cap, smoke chamber, firebox, etcetera. Within the Expanded Long Form are segmented Black Boxes with breakdowns similar to the areas above but expanded into greater detail.
- Summary Forms include segmented diagrams, traffic light checkboxes for segment conditions, and a place to note specifics.
- We wrote two reference books for scanning chimneys, of which our Chimney Scan Factory Training Book contains Green Box segments.
- Urban Inspection Language contains over 400 prewritten paragraphs for chimney condition and defects. This language is easy to copy and drop into reports and has been legally approved.
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Ask Yourself These Five Questions: 1. Is all of the essential data being collected? 2. Are you the only person you trust to perform an inspection? 3. Does the possibility of litigation keep you up at night? 4. Does your customer understand your report? 5. At the end of the day, do your inspection reports make you feel as if you (and your team) did your best? |
Tracey is working on a chimney inspection report using the Flue & Hearth Notes™ fillable PDF.
It is easy for your staff to create detailed reports from the Standard Short Form or the Expanded Long Forms. Someone fluent with office programs can create a report quickly as long as they have all of the data they need.
In the photo at left, Tracey is taking information from the Standard Short Form and implementing it into an Expanded Long Form to include with a work proposal.
In the photo at left, Tracey is taking information from the Standard Short Form and implementing it into an Expanded Long Form to include with a work proposal.