Meet the Team - Emberly Chimney Cleaners Orland Park

Meet the Orland Park Team Behind Emberly Chimney Cleaners Orland Park

Our crew lives in Orland Park and the surrounding towns. We show up in the same trucks, wear the same uniforms, and answer to the same standard. What ties us together isn’t a handbook. It’s the habit of writing the price before we start, photographing everything we find, and standing behind it for a full year. Corrine Halstead built this team on that habit, and we haven’t broken it in over 38,000 jobs.

Our People

Corrine Halstead, Owner

Corrine started Emberly Chimney Cleaners Orland Park in 2009 after six years of running calls for another outfit where the pricing changed once the truck was in the driveway. She wrote the first Haven Standard on a clipboard in her kitchen: written price, written scope, written warranty. No exceptions. She still pulls permits personally in Orland Park, Tinley Park, and Palos Heights because she knows the inspectors by name and prefers to handle the paperwork herself. Corrine holds NFPA 211 Level 2 certification and trains every technician on camera-scan protocol. She keeps a photo on her phone of a chimney in Orland Hills where the flue cap had been missing so long the birds were confused when we put the new one on. She shows it during safety talks to explain why Clause 4 matters.

Marcus T., Lead Technician

Marcus has been sweeping chimneys for fourteen years, the last eight with Emberly Chimney Cleaners Orland Park. He specializes in masonry evaluation and can spot spalling brick from the ground before he sets up a ladder. Marcus holds CSIA Certified Chimney Sweep credential and trained on HeatShield cerfractory resurfacing systems in 2019. He lives in Frankfort with his two dogs and commutes up La Grange Road every morning. His detail: he hums old Motown songs while he works, and customers in Homewood and Flossmoor have started requesting him by name because they say the chimney sounds happier when Marcus is inside it.

Diana K., Senior Installer

Diana joined us in 2017 after running her own small handyman business in Oak Forest. She handles liner installations, crown pours, and full rebuilds where the chimney has suffered structural compromise. Diana is certified in DuraFlex stainless steel liner systems and Gelco cap installation, and she’s the person Corrine calls when a job requires custom fabrication on a cricket or chase cover. She lives in Tinley Park and coaches youth softball in the summer. Her detail: she keeps a notebook of every chimney she’s rebuilt, with sketches of the before condition, and she’s on volume fourteen.

James R., Service Coordinator

James answers the phones and schedules every appointment for the Orland Park territory. He’s been with Emberly Chimney Cleaners Orland Park since 2015 and knows which neighborhoods have the older clay flue liners from the 1970s building boom and which ones have the newer prefab units that need different inspection protocols. James sends the text alerts when technicians are en route and follows up after every job to make sure the photo record arrived in the customer’s inbox. He lives in Palos Park and grew up in a house with a wood-burning stove, so he understands the urgency when someone calls in October and says they haven’t swept in four years. His detail: he keeps a map on his desk with push pins for every chimney we’ve serviced in Orland Park, and he’s running out of space on the west side of Harlem Avenue.

Elena V., Apprentice Technician

Elena started with us in 2022 after completing the HVAC program at Moraine Valley Community College. She’s training under Marcus on sweep protocol and under Diana on liner prep and installation. Elena has completed her CSIA Chimney Sweep credential and is working toward Level 2 inspection certification. She grew up in Bridgeview and now rents in Orland Park near the mall. Her detail: she asks more questions than any apprentice we’ve had, usually about why a particular flue failed the way it did, and Corrine has started bringing her along on second-opinion calls because Elena’s fresh eyes sometimes catch what experienced ones miss.

One Standard, Every Job

Every person on this page works under the same set of rules, whether the job is a routine sweep in Orland Park or a full rebuild in New Lenox. Haven Standard Clause 1 requires a written price, written scope, and written warranty before any work begins. Clause 4 requires a documented photo record on every visit. The 365-Day Done Right Promise applies to every technician’s work, and the materials we use come from the same supplier network whether you’re in Orland Park or any of the other sixteen cities we cover. Corrine Halstead stamps every job personally. The crew changes out their trucks at the Orland Park depot every morning, review the day’s scope together, and head out with the same instruction: say what you found, show what you saw, write what it costs, and stand behind it.

Written by Corrine Halstead, Owner at Emberly Chimney Cleaners Orland Park, serving Orland Park since 2009.