How Level Two Chimney Lansdale Was Born in Lansdale
Corrine Halstead still remembers the phone call that made it clear Lansdale needed something different. It was late autumn, the kind of afternoon when the light turns amber early and every fireplace on Main Street starts getting lit for the first time since March. A homeowner in the Knapp Farm area had hired a sweep company out of Philadelphia, paid the bill, and still couldn’t get a fire to draw properly. The company had run a brush up from the bottom, collected their fee, and left. No camera. No photos. No explanation of why smoke was backing up into the living room.
Corrine drove over with a basic chimney camera, something most crews still weren’t carrying in 2009. What the camera found was a partially collapsed clay liner, blocked with bird debris from a missing rain cap, invisible from below. The previous company had never looked. That homeowner, a retired teacher who’d lived in that Lansdale colonial since 1987, had been overcharged for a surface-level brush job and left with a genuine fire hazard. Corrine fixed the flue, installed a Gelco cap, and sat at that woman’s kitchen table writing out exactly what was wrong, what was done, and what it cost.
That evening, driving back down Broad Street past the Lansdale Beer Trolley sign, Corrine decided to bring Level Two Chimney Co. to this market. The parent brand already existed, already held the archive of camera inspections that made its reputation. What Lansdale needed was a local branch that operated by those standards every single time, not just when the customer complained. No more mystery. No more invoices without evidence. The Haven Standard, Clause 4 included, would be the floor here, not the ceiling.
Corrine Halstead’s Personal Connection to the Chimney Cleaning Trade
Corrine didn’t start in chimneys. The first trade work was electrical, crawling through attics in July where the fiberglass insulation itched through your shirt and the air smelled like hot dust and old mouse droppings. But a neighbor, a tradesman who’d spent thirty years running flue liners and rebuilding fireboxes, needed help one October when his regular assistant broke a wrist. Corrine said yes because the rent was due and stayed because of what happened inside that first chimney.
The camera went down a flue in a farmhouse outside Souderton, built 1923, still burning cordwood every winter. On the monitor, the terracotta liner looked like a cracked eggshell, gaps wide enough to see the brick surround glowing with heat stress. The homeowner, a man in his seventies who’d burned wood in that fireplace since his own father taught him, had no idea. He’d never been shown. The tradesman talked him through what the camera revealed, explained the carbon monoxide risk of those gaps, and quoted a HeatShield resurfacing job with the price written on paper before either of them touched a tool. The homeowner’s face, Corrine remembers, went from suspicion to something like relief. Someone had finally looked, and shown him the truth, and let him decide.
That’s what gets Corrine out of bed. Not the technical work, though the work matters. It’s the moment when a homeowner sees their own chimney for the first time, understands what’s actually living inside their walls, and gets to make an informed choice about their family’s safety. The smell of wood smoke on a cold morning, the weight of a good stainless brush, the particular silence when a camera is descending a flue and everyone in the room is watching the screen together. Those are the sensory anchors of seventeen years now.
If Corrine weren’t doing this, the honest answer is probably still working with hands, still in houses, still solving problems that hide behind drywall and brick. Maybe weatherization, maybe old-home restoration. The through-line is buildings that keep secrets, and the people who deserve to know them.
Meet Corrine Halstead - The Person Behind Every Job
Corrine Halstead is Owner and Founder of Level Two Chimney Lansdale. After joining the trade in 2009 and working flue systems across Montgomery and Bucks counties, Corrine opened this branch to bring Haven Standard service to the Lansdale area specifically. Training includes NFPA 211 certification, hands-on liner installation with DuraFlex and Olympia Chimney systems, and continuous education in combustion safety and building science.
What separates Corrine from a corporate franchise technician is simple: this is the person who answers when something goes wrong, who reviews the camera footage personally, who writes the estimate and stands behind it. On weekends, you’ll find Corrine restoring a 1968 Triumph motorcycle in a garage near the Towamencin Township line, a hobby that taught patience with seized bolts and the value of doing a job right because redoing it costs triple. Every customer gets that same standard - measure twice, document everything, leave the work provable.
Corrine’s personal commitment to you: if we can’t show it on camera, we won’t ask you to pay to fix it.
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AfterOur Promise to Lansdale Homeowners
Honest pricing means the price on your written estimate is the price on your invoice. Clause 1 of the Haven Standard - Have it in writing - exists because Corrine once watched a homeowner in Harleysville accept a verbal “around three hundred” that became six hundred forty on the final bill. We don’t do that. Flat price, written scope, signed before we start.
Quality parts means we spec DuraFlex liners and Gelco caps not because they’re cheapest, but because their warranty terms are real and their track record in Pennsylvania freeze-thaw cycles is documented. We keep the part numbers in your file.
Standing behind every job means if a cap we installed lets water in, we come back. Not because we’re saints, but because our documentation - photos, measurements, product serial numbers - proves what we did and when. Evidence on every job, Clause 4, protects us both.
Our Credentials
State-licensed. Every pro working under our name is required to hold the license their state requires for chimney and fireplace work in Pennsylvania.
Insured & bonded. Coverage protects your property while we’re on your roof, in your flue, and moving equipment through your home.
Years of local experience. Corrine Halstead has worked chimney systems in Lansdale, Montgomeryville, Souderton, Harleysville, Telford, Blue Bell, Ambler, Maple Glen, Fort Washington, Horsham, Norristown, and Perkasie since bringing Level Two Chimney Co. to this market in 2009.
Strong local reputation. We serve the same neighborhoods where we live and work; our customers are also our neighbors at the Lansdale Farmers Market, the Fourth of July parade on Main Street, the Saturday morning line at Stove & Tap.
These credentials matter because chimney work happens inside your home’s most dangerous system - high temperatures, carbon monoxide potential, structural integrity of the flue that protects your framing. A homeowner can’t verify the work visually afterward. You need to trust who you let up that ladder, and you need documentation you can hold in your hand.
Rooted in Lansdale
This branch operates from Lansdale, not around it. Corrine lives close enough to hear the SEPTA train horn on the Lansdale/Doylestown line, shops the same GIANT on West Main, and sweeps chimneys in the same Knapp Farm, Merck Estates, and Upper Gwynedd neighborhoods where customers wave from their driveways. We’ve worked the pre-war colonials near the train station, the 1970s splits off Valley Forge Road, the new construction toward Montgomeryville. Lansdale’s freeze-thaw winters, its wet springs, its particular mix of oil-to-gas conversions and original masonry - that’s the local knowledge we bring. Level Two Chimney Co. provides the standards and the documentation system. Corrine Halstead provides the local eyes.
Written by Corrine Halstead, Owner at Level Two Chimney Lansdale, serving Lansdale and Montgomery County since 2009.