Apprentice
White Belt – Apprentice Sweep
The white belt represents the untouched cleanliness of a new apprentice sweep who has never worked with a chimney. This soot free person has never experienced the world of chimney sweeping. Like a fresh beginning of a completely white piece of paper, this new apprentice can begin a career and draft whatever story they desire. Welcome my new sweep, may God bless your journey. Click the image to the left to begin your lessons.
Yellow Belt
The yellow belt represents the sunrise of a new day. When a sweep in on a roof and sees a beautiful sunrise, it is the start of a new day as a sky walker. Just like a new day, the yellow belt student begins his study of building codes and understanding of the construction of chimneys.
Orange Belt
The orange belt represents a sunset. The long day of working from morning until night and the grit and determination of never giving up. The orange belt program focuses on why building codes were formed. A good sweep knows the building codes but a master sweep understands the building codes.
Green Belt
The green belt represents the beautiful lawns a chimney sweep sees from the roof. The start of the spring season which also represents the journey of the chimney sweep program. Like grass that begins to grow, the chimney sweep learns the science of chimneys regarding draft, flow and creosote formation.
Journeyman
Blue Belt – Journeyman Sweep
The blue belt represents the noon clear blue sky which we see from rooftops. Our sweep advances from apprentice to journeyman. Our sweeps train to completely memorize building code requirements, present findings and learn levels of inspections. Test requirements change to 100% which represents the perfection required to become a master chimney sweep.
Purple Belt
The purple belt represents wealth and royalty of the modern day chimney sweep. The profession is a gift from God. This entire level of training focuses on the history of chimney sweeps from climbing boys to modern day chimney sweeps and how practice and techniques have changed throughout time.
Red Belt
The red belt represents the fire of the August sun. This fire to learn is what separates disciplined chimney sweeps from helpers. Our training focuses on chimney problems and diagnosis of chimneys. Our sweeps have a complete understanding of 3 levels of chimney inspections.
Brown Belt
The brown belt represents the fall season. Every chimney sweep embraces the fall season like samurai soldiers going to war. The steady feet of the sweep is similar to the balance and movement of a ninja. Our sweeps continue training OSHA regulations and develop safe roof skills and proper instruction.
Master
Black Belt – Master Sweep
The black belt represents the experience and time required to become a master chimney sweep. It represents the years of black soot that has traveled throughout your body. The soot that dusts a room when a vacuum bag breaks and the soot that is on the seat of your van. The soot that has been on chimney sweep faces throughout time. Our sweeps train on how to operate a chimney sweep business.