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Chimney Sweep Guild members. CSIA also
will make available to NADCA members
their online courses at the member price.
We have more than 1,400 professionals
who hold the CCS, or Certied Chimney
Sweep, credential. We think the number
of people who hold the C-DET certication
could be just as big, if not larger, said
Mark A. Stoner, CSIA president. We are in
the process of launching a special website,
c-det.org, devoted just to C-DET pros. Its
an affordable certication and, based on
the number of unwanted res annually
because of lint-clogged ducts, its critically
important that homeowners get the
information that will prevent an unwanted
re.
The Chimney Safety Institute of America
has taken one of the boldest steps in the
history of the Certied Dryer Exhaust
Technician (or C-DET) credential by
partnering with the National Air Duct
Cleaners Association. The CSIA board
on May 23, 2014 approved a rst-ever
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
between both associations.

NADCA has over 1,000 member
companies with over 1,700 Air Systems
Cleaning Specialists, a certication
specically for HVAC system Inspection,
Cleaning and Restoration and include any
ventilation/exhaust ducts except Kitchen
Exhaust. NADCAs member companies
have an estimated 5,000 technicians and
many of them include Dryer Exhaust
(DE) cleaning with their duct cleaning
services.
Presently we do not have a separate
certication for Dryer Exhaust and do not
wish to develop one. The CSIA C-DET
certication is an excellent t for our
NADCA members, said Jodi Araujo,
Executive Director, NADCA, of Mt.
Laurel, New Jersey.
CSIAs C-DET credential was launched
in February 2000 during the National
Chimney Sweep Guild convention in
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. There are
close to 300 industry pros throughout the
U.S. who have this credential, many of
them certied chimney sweeps. Under
terms of the MOU, CSIA will provide an
instructor to present the C-DET review
and exam at NADCAs Fall Technical
Conference in Atlanta, Georgia Sept. 18,
at the same rate that is offered to National
C-DET set to grow
Chimney Safety Institute of
America approves MOU
with National Air Duct
Cleaners Association
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Florida
Trenton Beams | Safe-D-Dryer Vent
Cleaning | Spring Hill
Kelly Dexter & Mike Dexter | Air Quality
Control Environmental | Coral Springs
Michigan
Michael Sarkisian | Mike S. the Handy
Man | Wyandotte
New Jersey
Glen Smith | McPuff Chimney Services,
LLC | Branchburg
North Carolina
Tom Albert | Cashiers Chimney
Professionals | Glenville
Keith Gaudette | Smoke Alert | Garner
Bob Priesing | Havelocks Chimney +
Venting, Inc. | Havelock
Pennsylvania
Catlin Boswer | Bradigans Heating + Air
Conditioning | Kittanning
Kevin Berghold, Mike Williamson & Gary
Hewitt | Chester County Hearth + Home
| Elverson
Rhode Island
Donald A. Ross, III | DAR Home
Solutions | North Scituate
Walter Costa | Island Chimney Services,
LLC | Middletown
Vermont
Matt Provencher, Mike Hall & Adam Kent
| Brickliners Corp. | Williston
Paul Bianco & Daniel Boone | Chimney
Savers | Randolph
Virginia
David Childress | Childress Masonry +
Construction | Summerduck
New C-DET Certifed Dryer
Exhaust Technicians
Congratulations!
The CSIA Certied Dryer Exhaust Technician

(CDET) program is a comprehensive
examination that is administered and graded
by the Chimney Safety Institute of America.
The examination evaluates a Dryer Exhaust
Technicians understanding of the basic
information technicians must master to
become competent dryer exhaust safety
and re prevention specialists such as:
*Applicable building codes
*NFPA 211 and NFPA 54 standards
* All facets of inspecting and cleaning residen-
tial and commercial dryer exhaust systems.
Cost for NCSG members: $65 (manual), $169
to $174 (exam). Optional pre-exam reviews
vary in price. Call (317) 837-5362 to sign up!
California
Douglas Williams | Macs Chimney
Sweeping | Taylorsville
Colorado
Michael Phenix | Rays Chimney Service
Plus | Colorado Springs
Justin Paup | Mountain Man Fireplace +
Chimney | Evergreen
Phillip Hothan | Goodrich Chimney
Services, Inc. | Conifer
Anthony Jones | Chimney Sweeps of
America | Wheat Ridge
Florida
Nick Bergin | Doodlebuggers Service
Network | Pensacola
Georgia
Charles Martin | Oconee Chimney
Company | Madison
Illinois
John Burke | Chicagoland Fireplace +
Chimney Restoration | Berkeley
Indiana
Michael DuHack, Jr. |The Cinder Box |
Zionsville
Rodger Nelson | Olde Towne Chimney
Sweeps Inc. | Jeffersonville
Kansas
Linc Lunsway| A Safety Sweep, LLC |
Manhattan
Kentucky
Joseph Hodges | Bone Dry Masonry |
Lexington
Jeremy Marowelli | Bone Dry Masonry |
Lexington
Cruz Thornsberry | Fireproof Chimney
Sweep | Leburn
Massachusetts
Paul Collina | Safe Fire Chimney Service |
Burlington
Patrick Agurkis | Worcester County
Chimney and Masonry | Worcester
Michigan
Jeriah Bendixen | Master Sweep
Chimney Service LLC | Auburn Hills
William M. Spring | Fireplace North +
Spa | Iron Mountain
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New CSIA Certifed
Chimney Sweeps -
Congratulations!
Eric Mogan | Lyon Chimney Sweeps |
South Lyon
Jeremiah Wise | Mike S. the Handy
Man | Wyandotte
Minnesota
Ralph Dvorak | Dayco General Inc. |
Loretto
Missouri
Jason Allison | Allison Heating,
Cooling + Chimney Service | Marshall
Nebraska
Breyton Pool | Top Hat Industries, Inc.
| Omaha
New Mexico
Leroy Chacon | High Desert Hearth
Products | Alclade
North Carolina
Keith Gaudette | Smoke Alert | Garner
Oregon
Daniel OBrien | American Chimney +
Masonry, Inc. | Portland
Pennsylvania
Jennifer Cline | Smokestack Masonry,
LLC | Strasburg
Darlene Mangan | Olympia Chimney
Supply, Inc. | Scranton
Steve Green | Smokestack Masonry,
LLC | Strasburg
New CCS John Burke of Chicagoland
Fireplace & Chimney Restoration studied
with CCS Jennifer Cline of Smokestack
Masonry during NCSTS in April in Plainfeld,
IN. We were happy to see two dozen
students pass the CCS.
We had three pass! Totally
doubled the number of CSIA
Certifed Sweeps in our neck of
the woods - fve now certifed
in our company!
-- Jennifer Cline
Smokestack Masonry, LLC
Strasburg, Pennsylvania
earned CCS credential 4/19/2014
Kyle Neff| Smokestack Masonry,
LLC | Strasburg
Vermont
Dennis Morgan, Jr. | Top Hat
Chimney Sweep | West Fairlee
Washington
Jonathan Rees | Rees Chimney
Service | Centralia
Wisconsin
Brian Clement | Quality Fireplace +
Chimney | Waukesha
West Virginia
Tim Harrison | Fayetteville
Get certifed or stay certifed!
Our full event calendar is
always updated at www.
csia.org/Education
CCS Review & Exam: June 6,
Plainfeld, IN; June 20, Coventry,
RI; July 19, Independence, MO ....
National Chimney Sweep Training
School: June 23-28, August 11-16
& September 22-27 in Plainfeld,
IN ... C-DET review/exam: July
30-31 - Plainfeld, IN; Installing
& Troubleshooting Gas Hearth
Appliances, July 14-18; Sweeps Week
June 8-14.
Info? Offce@csia.org /
317-837-5362
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OESP CSIA was an exhibitor at the Oil &
Energy Service Professionals Road Show
in Mohegan Sun, Connecticut May 12-13.
OESP is all about education, improving
the technical and business skills of its
members and the energy industry at large.
The OESP road shows are designed for
busy energy professionals. CSIA Certied
Sweeps Donald A. Ross, III and Richard
Rua (below) staffed the booth on behalf
of CSIA.
Industry News
CSIA continues to support
affliated trades to beneft
sweeps: OESP and HPBA
400 brochures given to
Indiana volunteer
frefghters
Heres our ad that was published in
the Indiana Volunteer Fireghters
Association 2014 annual state
convention guide in early May. It will
give our CSIA certied chimney sweeps
throughout Indiana, and in Midwestern
border states like Kentucky, Ohio,
Illinois and Michigan, great exposure.
http://www.csia.org/About-CSIA/For_
reghters_After_Chimney_Fire.aspx
Questions? Contact tspalding@csia.org.
Olympia hosts CCS review/exam
In Scranton, Pennsylvania, Olympia
Chimney hosted an on-site Chimney
Sweep Review and Exam May 16,
featuring over two dozen students. It was
a great location for the event, according
to Edmund Poplawski, Olympia Regional
Sales Manager as well as the supplier
representative on the NCSG board.
The Southern Association of
Chimney Professionals hosted
their spring conference at the historic
Chattanooga Choo Choo in Chattanooga,
Tennessee. SACP conducted a CPR and
rst aid class and 18 people took the CSIA
C-DET review and test May 9, taught by
CSIA CCS sweep Bob Priesing.
National Chimney Supply sponsored
the rst of its new summer Seminar Series
at CSIA April 29-30. It featured business
best practices and tips on diagnosing
leaky chimneys. Three more are in June:
Connecticut, Maryland, and South Carolina,
and they each carry 12 CEUs. To register,
call Carrie at 800-897-8481 or email
cwilcox@nationalchimney.com. Thanks to
Nationals Ghayas M. Salem, SaverSystems
Stuart Karanovich, and Jerry Isenhour, of
CVC Coaching.
Chimney Savers HeatShield Summit
was held May 15-17 in Richmond, Indiana.
Many CSIA and NCSG board members
attended to discuss the product and
business best practices in general. Thanks
to John Meredith (of Chimney Savers),
CSIA secretary, for leading this effort!
The Wisconsin Guild of Chimney
Service Specialists did courtesy chimney
inspections/sweeping and replace
improvements, to benet Easter Seals
Wisconsin Camps. CSIA board member
John Pilger (of Chief Chimney Services)
and National Chimney Sweep Guild board
member Jasper Drengler (of Chimney
Mechanix) were among participants in
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.
The Mid-Atlantic Chimney
Association sponsored and CSIA
supported Masonry Repair for Chimney
Professionals was held May 19-20 in
Waldorf, Maryland. Forty-four people in
attendance learned from a great instructor,
Chris Prior.
Facebook/chimneysafety CSIA
reached 1,034 likes on May 15, 2014.
*Twitter/Chimney_Safety 574
followers.
*Twitter/DryerVentSafety 19
followers.
*YouTube/ChimneySafetyUSA: 1,026
views, 1,413 minutes watched in
April; Best performing video (both
months): Hire a CSIA Certied
Chimney Sweep: the better choice.
*CSIA published blog posts on
animals and critters in chimneys,
chimney swifts, and even the proper
height of chimneys in our blog,
Wisdom From the Hearth. View at
http://chimneysafety.wordpress.com/
CSIA in social:
By the Numbers
Sweeps Week June 8-14
Sweeps Week at CSIA, funded by the
silent auction held during the NCSG
Convention in Columbus, Ohio, gets
underway this month! One of our
multi-year projects we hope to complete
is a built-from-the-ground-up pizza oven.
Are you coming?
HPBA CSIA had a busy booth at the
Hearth Patio Barbecue Association annual
convention, held in Salt Lake City, Utah
in early March. Ashley Eldridge, CSIA
Director of Education, taught classes and
joined CSIA staffers Frances Kelly and Tom
Spalding and CSIA Treasurer Jim Bostaph
at the booth. We identied several
western U.S. chimney pros as contacts for
potential CCS classes and certication.
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Its one of the biggest frustrations for
certied, legitimate air duct cleaners:
Blow-and-go services stealing customers
and providing less-than-quality work at
super discounted rates. Certications
and standards, like The National Air
Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA)
standard, distinguish the quality service
providers. And while the NADCA
standard addresses nearly all aspects
of air duct cleaning, Mike Dexter of Air
Quality Control Environmental saw a
need to address dryer vent res. Dexter,
[who obtained his C-DET credential from
the Chimney Safety Institute of America
in April 2014] is a member of NADCA
and serves on NADCAs Fall Technical
Conference Committee.
Part of it was because we have unique
challenges here in South Florida, says
Dexter. Specically, lax construction
codes and developer desires to maximize
beach views have led to complex
ventilation structures that can pose
problems for consumer safety. Any of
the condos built here in the last 15 to
20 years are all about aesthetics. Theres
no function in their thinking. Utilities are
almost an afterthought of the machine.
They run their ductwork so far they have
to use booster fans and other equipment
to get the air to go 50 feet from the dryer
to the wall.
But mostly, Dexter said he started
developing a dryer vent cleaning
A New Standard in Dryer Vent Fire risk
study
standard because of embarrassingly
bad competition. The barrier to entry
is so low, just for dryer vent cleaning,
he says. There hasnt been anything
standard about the process to clean
those vents. Ive seen guys come
in with leaf blowers, hoping to blow
enough out the other end so that they
can say job completed. Thats my
competition.
Armed with The NADCA Standard
ACR, and the Certied Dryer
Exhaust Technician (C-DET) manual
proceduresthe foundation for his
dryer vent standardDexter is taking
a stand against blow-and-go services
and helping consumers to analyze and
better compare the services offered.
What were trying to do is standardize
the process, he says. Were offering
customers one process that allows
them to compare companies.
While Dexter, along with his father - the
companys founder - and sister, focused
efforts locally, he says that everyone
can benet from a dryer vent cleaning
standard. Dryer vent res are a
national public safety concern, he says.
But, after hitting some red tape trying
to partner with local re departments
on consumer education initiatives,
Dexter decided that he had to try
something else. He joined forces with
The Millennium Institute (www.tmisite.
org), a nonprot organization dedicated
to education and advocacy for health
and safety.
Shortly after, we partnered with a local
re department. There had been three
dryer vent res in this city alone, says
Dexter. That shows that theres a need
for this standard and for awareness
beyond just air quality control. We need
to educate the public on how to clean
their vents the right way.
NADCA recently announced its new
dryer vent cleaning standard, The Dryer
Exhaust Duct (DEDP) Performance
Standard, much to Dexters satisfaction.
NADCA is about bringing together
like-minded people who want to do
legitimate work, he says. Its very
timely that were all thinking about dryer
vent cleaning and recognize that theres
a great need for the improved safety of
our citizens.
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Dealing
with
Discounters
Originally appeared in the March/April 2014
issue of DucTales, the magazine of the National
Air Duct Cleaners Association. Reprinted
with permission. Photo of Kelly Dexter & Mike
Dexter courtesy of CB Photography.
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