COMPANY HISTORY

The company was established in 1994 by my brother, Scott, under the name of 2 Hats Chimney Services, Inc.  Scott was, and continues to be, a full time Officer with the Prince George’s County Fire Department.  He began the chimney sweeping business during his off days while working shift.

Scott came up with the name of 2 Hats Chimney Service primarily because as a firefighter, if he had to come and put out a fire, then he would wear his fire hat.  But if he could prevent fires from happening by inspecting and cleaning fireplaces, then he would be happy to wear his chimney sweeping hat instead.  Thus came the name 2 Hats Chimney Services.    
       
In 1997, I joined up with my brother and we expanded the business to cleaning air ducts as well.  The company name was changed to 2 Hats Chimneys & Ducts, Inc. Together we traveled to Las Vegas where we trained under a company called Air-Care, learning how to clean air ducts.  Air-Care is an industry leader of almost 40 years of cleaning air ducts, and more recently into the training and equipping of the industry. 

Our business began to grow. Somewhere along the way, one of our customers asked us if we would clean out her dryer vent while we were there to clean her air ducts.  We had never thought of it, but said we would check it out.  How surprised we were to find how dirty the dryer vent was, but more importantly, how thoroughly clean we were able to get it before we were finished.  And so, unintentionally, we expanded into cleaning dryer vents as well. 

In 2001, for personal reasons and due to coming off of the shift work that he so enjoyed, Scott resigned from the company.  (He is still an Officer with the PG Fire Department.) To keep up with the growing business, and to offset Scott’s departure, our brother-in-law, David, joined part-time for whenever help has been needed.      
 
To date, we continue to clean air ducts, dryer vents, and fireplaces.  That’s it; that’s all we do.  (And no, we don’t clean windows and we don’t do gutters either!)