Chimney Animal Removal Dallas Fort Worth

At SafeAir Duct & Chimney, we specialize in safe and professional chimney animal removal for homeowners across Dallas Fort Worth. If you’re hearing scratching, movement, or noises inside your chimney, there’s a strong chance an animal has entered and built a nest.

Common intruders include squirrels, birds, raccoons and other small animals seeking warmth and shelter. Whether you need bird removal from a chimney, a squirrel out of the flue, or a dead animal removed and the smell cleaned up, we handle the whole job, from removal to cleaning to capping the chimney. If not removed quickly, they can cause blockages, odors, and even fire hazards.

Our team safely removes animals from your chimney and ensures your system is properly secured to prevent future entry. We focus specifically on chimney-related animal issues, providing targeted solutions that protect your home without unnecessary disruption.

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How Much Does Chimney Animal Removal Cost?

Every animal removal starts with our $49 Full Chimney and Fireplace Inspection, and you get a written price before any work starts. Two calls on the same street can be nothing alike in what they take. These are the things that actually move the number.

Which animal it is. A bird that dropped into the smoke chamber and cannot climb back out is a different job from a squirrel that has been in the flue for a week, and both are different from raccoons, which are bigger, stronger and usually there to raise young.

Whether it is alive or dead. A live animal is removed and the way in is closed. A dead one has to be found first, and it can be in the flue, on the smoke shelf, in the firebox, or in the gap between the flue and the chase. Once it is out the area normally needs cleaning and deodorising, and that is a second piece of work.

Where in the chimney it is. Something sitting on the smoke shelf is reachable from the firebox. Something wedged partway down a clay flue, or behind the damper, is not, and it takes longer and more equipment.

Whether there are young. From spring through late summer a nesting animal is rarely alone. Taking the mother and leaving a litter behind creates a worse problem a week later, so the whole nest comes out together.

Access. A single storey roof with a shallow pitch is straightforward. A steep two storey roof, a tall chimney, or a wet day are not.

What the chimney needs afterwards. Most animal calls we get trace back to a missing or broken cap. Putting an animal out and leaving the way in open means doing it again next season. Some chimneys also need the flue cleaned once nesting material has been sitting in it.

The type of chimney. Masonry chimneys and factory-built metal flues are cleared and sealed in different ways.

The inspection is what turns all of that into a number. You are told what is in there, where it is, what it takes to get it out and what it costs, before anyone starts.

Do not light a fire while an animal or nest is in the chimney. Call (214) 550-3348 and we will tell you what it will take before any work starts.

Dead animal in the chimney

Most people find out because of the smell. It arrives a day or two after the scratching stops, it gets stronger in warm weather, and it comes into the room through the firebox even with the damper shut.

Flies are the second sign. A cluster of them at a window near the fireplace, in a house with no other explanation for them, is worth checking the chimney for.

It does not clear quickly on its own. Air freshener and an open window treat the smell while the source stays where it is, and through a Dallas Fort Worth summer that can run for weeks.

What we do is locate it, get it out, clean what it has been lying on, and treat the area so the smell goes rather than fades. Then we deal with how it got in, because a chimney one animal could enter is a chimney the next one can enter.

Wondering why it keeps happening? Read why birds and squirrels love Dallas chimneys in late summer.

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