About This Site
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Who publishes it
Chimney Sweep Rockford is published by N5 Studio, a web studio run by Ryan Nesheim in Rockford, Illinois. N5 Studio built the site, wrote the pages and checked the sources. It is a chimney information and quote request site for Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois. It is not a chimney sweep company and does not climb on a roof.
How quote requests are handled
When you send the quote form, the request comes to the site publisher, who replies with next steps. No company is confirmed to do the work in your area yet, so nothing is booked or started until you have agreed to a written price. The steps are on the how it works page.
Where the numbers come from
Every figure on the site has a source, linked where it appears. The research behind this site was done on October 26, 2026.
- Prices: national cost guides from Angi, HomeGuide and Thumbtack, each published or updated within the last twelve months, with the guide's own date shown next to the number. No cost guide publishes a Rockford, Chicago or Illinois chimney price, so every range is labeled national. Angi's sweep and inspection pages disagree on Level 2 inspections, so both are shown. Contractor blogs and older pages are left out.
- Inspection levels and yearly advice: CSIA, NFPA 211, the U.S. Fire Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The NFPA 211 quote is from the 2016 edition.
- Fire figures: NFPA and USFA for heating fires, and EPA Burn Wise for the dirty chimney figure, which EPA attributes to NFPA and does not date. EPA stopped updating Burn Wise on October 30, 2025.
- Illinois law: the Home Repair and Remodeling Act, the Attorney General on contractors, the Carbon Monoxide Alarm Detector Act, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Illinois DNR on chimney swifts.
- Local rules: the City of Rockford, the City of Loves Park, the Village of Machesney Park, the villages of Roscoe, Rockton, Cherry Valley, Winnebago, Pecatonica, Durand and New Milford, the City of South Beloit and the Winnebago County Building Division. Their fee schedules are undated on their own sites, so we state rules and tell you to confirm dollar figures.
- Town numbers: the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 2024 5-year estimates (2020-2024) via Census Reporter, covering 14 places and the rural townships. Weather is from the National Weather Service normals for Rockford, 1991 to 2020. Gas appliance advice is from Nicor Gas.
Where an office publishes nothing, its page says so rather than guessing. A few items carry a note because the sources did not fully settle them: the county's code edition (its codes page looks old) and Rockford's recreational fire hours. If something is out of date, the source link on that page is the place to check, and the quote form reaches us.
What this site does not claim
It shows no customer reviews and no star ratings, because it has none of its own. It names no staff, gives no founding year and lists no street address. It does not say anyone is certified, licensed or insured. Illinois has no state chimney sweep license that we could find, and the CSIA credential exists, but nothing here claims it for anybody. Prices are ranges from published guides, not promises; the price that counts is the one in your written contract.
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