*UPDATE* awful effort.
Look at the pics, lazy workmanship screws not waterproofed or even flush,top of my chimney half screwed in...just lazy...honestly who screws into a roof like this so carlessly. Ive saved potential customers from firesafe because my experience is a good example of "try less; you cant." who ever owns firesafe should feel embarrassed by these pics. Awful workmaship but they're quotes want top dollar. Here's your honest 1 star with pics.
I didn’t have a very smooth experience with Firesafe. I needed a class A chimney for my woodstove, saw they were local and went with them. they purchased & installed it to the tune of just under 3 grand. Straight forward through the roof install, no custom craziness. The whole thing took 3 visits, 2 return visits that I had to call them back out and take off 2 days work. The reasoning I would get when asking things like “why does the chimney looked flopped backward?” you wouldn’t expect to receive from professional installers; a response like “we used the wrong size screws” & “we’ve never had a return visit yet”. I still don’t get the wrong size screw thing or how that even happens or how it takes me seeing it to point it out & climbing up on the roof and feeling that all the lengths are really loose and im shocked they left it as a “job well done” but in any event it was corrected. The very top length was not re-screwed on the second visit which makes me wonder if “the wrong size screws” are still in there and its loose like the lengths below were. I don’t want to be quality control for any installers but you already have my money so doing a good job isn’t a big ask. Following the call back for the chimney leaning, a leak began pouring through the inside of my house from the caulked collar outside. I called them again to come out and make it right, was told the leak was because after working on the chimney the second visit It wasn’t recaulked. So the third visit James came and recaulked it and put in the 2nd support for the chimney that was discussed on the consult day back when we started, I don’t know why the idea of a 2nd support was thrown out to begin with but it took 3 visits to get it on there. Another issue I had and still have was (forgive the terms) the connecting collar coming out of the box into the room connecting to the stove is visibly crooked; as in not sitting or pointing flush downward…I actually pointed this out really respectfully like “hey man that looks pretty crooked is it gunna stay like that?” and the answer I got back again was so strange from an installation perspective; reply being “we must’ve ran into a screw or something” which leads to me hinting to the idea of it looking kind of sloppy, are you going to fix it? Now I am thinking to myself, ok you ran into a screw or whatever, are you going to adjust it to sit flush instead of canted or call it good? None of these were landing and they briefly tried to wiggle it straight to no avail. This still remains crooked in my dining room and looks sloppy. It functions, but cosmetically it looks sloppy. The finishing work around the box I had to go back and redo because that also looked sloppy so I took my own time and lined it up nice so the 2 right angle pieces met and didn’t curl the way it was initially left, the screws they used didn’t even match (some hex heads some Philips, some long some short),that in & of itself can be indicative of workmanship, its not a personal project in a shed…its my dining room and it’s a cosmetic area of the box that I see plain as day, using the same head screw shouldn’t even be a thought. To stand back after and say that’s my best finishing work I can do for the customer is disappointing. Again that was annoying to go back and redo after paying what I paid. Nice guys, but work wise it was a headache and left a lot to be desired and to boot at the end of it all I got a card in the mail asking to leave 5 stars.-___-