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The Most Recommended Chimney Sweeps in Columbus — Measured on ChatGPT

ChatGPT is becoming the first stop for Columbus homeowners choosing a chimney sweep. To find out who it actually sends people to, we ran 4 checks in August 2026 — 4 question styles, a cohort of 29 area companies.

The answers concentrated on a handful of names: 16 in total, and Thompson Chimney Services Inc. was the only one named in all 4 checks. That leaves 13 Columbus-area companies ChatGPT never mentioned at all.

The next group is Blackburns Chimney Services, Fireplace Professionals, LLC and Soots Me Chimney Co — named in 3 of 4 checks.

There is no number one here on purpose. Ask ChatGPT the same question twice and the answer can change, so we publish how many of the 4 checks named each company instead of a place that would move if we asked again. Companies named in only one check aren't listed.

For scale: of the 12 metros in this edition, Columbus's cohort of 29 chimney sweeps was the 9th largest.

Only 16 of 29

Columbus chimney sweeps ever appear in the answers, a 55% rate. The companies below are the ones ChatGPT names:

Rankings are measured and cannot be purchased — sponsored blocks are labeled advertising and sit outside the ranked list.

Ask ChatGPT the same question twice and the answer can change. So we do not crown a number one. We publish how many of the 4 checks named each company. Companies named in more checks are the ones ChatGPT keeps coming back to. Companies named in only one check are not listed: a single mention does not repeat reliably.

Named in all 4 checks

One company, listed below.

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    Thompson Chimney Services Inc.Check your company

    Recommended in 4 of 4 AI checks

    Thompson Chimney Services Inc. earned its place by showing up in every one of the 4 checks.

Named in 3 of 4 checks

3 companies, listed alphabetically — they scored the same, so nothing here puts one above another.

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    Blackburns Chimney ServicesCheck your company

    Columbus, OH · Recommended in 3 of 4 AI checks · 4.7★ (472 Google reviews)

    Blackburns Chimney Services surfaced in 3 of the 4 checks when we asked. It carries a 4.7-star rating across 472 Google reviews.

  • 3of 4

    Fireplace Professionals, LLCCheck your company

    Columbus, OH · Recommended in 3 of 4 AI checks · 4.8★ (246 Google reviews)

    Fireplace Professionals, LLC came up in 3 of the 4 checks. It carries a 4.8-star rating across 246 Google reviews.

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    Soots Me Chimney CoCheck your company

    Recommended in 3 of 4 AI checks

    Named in 3 of the 4 checks: Soots Me Chimney Co.

4 checks, run August 2026. This board is measured, never sold; no company can pay to be listed. Grouping follows how often ChatGPT named each one, and names inside a group are alphabetical.

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Every question we put to ChatGPT

We asked these word-for-word, then recorded which companies came back in the answers:

  • “Who is the best chimney sweep in Columbus, Ohio?”
  • “I need my chimney cleaned and inspected before winter. Which local chimney company in Columbus, Ohio should I call?”
  • “What is the most recommended chimney sweep company in Columbus, Ohio?”
  • “My chimney needs repair. Who is a trustworthy chimney repair company near Columbus, Ohio?”

The Columbus measurement at a glance

  • Thompson Chimney Services Inc. was named in 4 of 4 checks — the closest thing Columbus has to a consensus answer.
  • The listed companies average 4.8 stars on Google, with 718 reviews between them.
  • Compared with the edition-wide average (52%), Columbus's 55% sits above the line.

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All 29 chimney sweeps in Columbus, ranked by Google rating

The list above is what ChatGPT named when we asked. This is every chimney sweep we checked in Columbus on August 21, 2026 — all 29 of them — put in order by their Google star rating and how many Google reviews are behind it. That order is Google’s, not ours, and it is not an AI result. Being on this list is not a recommendation. It only means we checked this chimney sweep. The ones ChatGPT kept naming are in the groups above.

16 more chimney sweeps we checked, with no Google rating to sort by

These are listed alphabetically. A chimney sweep with no rating, or only one or two reviews, is not put in order above. That is a gap in what Google shows, not a judgement about the work.

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The Columbus board, explained

How short is the Columbus list, really?

The August 2026 answer is 16. We verified 29 companies around Columbus and ran 4 checks; 55% of the cohort ever got a mention.

Who does ChatGPT name most often in Columbus?

In the August 2026 measurement, Thompson Chimney Services Inc. — it came up in every one of the 4 checks, more often than any other company we tracked here.

How is the order on this page decided?

Because a number one wouldn't hold. Ask ChatGPT the same question again and the top name often changes, while the number of checks that named a company stays about the same. So we publish the count: companies named in the same number of the 4 checks are grouped together and listed alphabetically, because nothing in the measurement separates them.

What questions were behind the Columbus checks?

Real homeowner phrasings, asked verbatim — one example: "I need my chimney cleaned and inspected before winter. Which local chimney company in Columbus, Ohio should I call?". Each answer's named companies were tallied, and that tally is the whole list.

Do companies pay you to be listed here?

They can't. Measured, never sold is the standing rule: being named by ChatGPT in our checks is the only path onto the board. Sponsored blocks are marked as advertising and never enter the measured list.

Why isn't my company on the Columbus list?

Either ChatGPT never named it in our August 2026 checks, or it came up in only one of them — and one mention isn't steady enough to publish. Neither says anything about the quality of the work, only that homeowners who ask AI are being sent elsewhere.

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New to Columbus? These chimney sweeps are just getting started.

Everything above this line was measured. The list on this page comes from asking AI assistants real questions and counting who they named — no one can buy their way onto it.

This section is different, and we want to be plain about it. The businesses below are brand new. They have not been measured, they have no rank and no score, and they are not part of the list above. They are here because they asked to be, we checked that they are real, and a business that opened last month has no way to show up in a ranking built on history. Nobody paid for a spot here — it is free, and it is not an endorsement.

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