Meet the Team - Flint Chimney Co Hempstead

Meet the Hempstead Team Behind Flint Chimney Co Hempstead

Flint Chimney Co Hempstead has been working in Hempstead homes since 2002, and the crew you’ll meet at your door is the reason homeowners keep calling back. We’re a local team, not a rotating cast of subcontractors. Every technician who walks up your driveway lives in Nassau County, knows the difference between a pre-war flue in South Hempstead and a mid-century masonry job in West Hempstead, and has spent years working on the specific chimney problems this area throws at us. The names below are who we are.

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Our People

Mike T. – Lead Chimney Technician

Mike has been sweeping and repairing chimneys in Hempstead for 17 years, the last 9 with Flint. He’s certified through the Chimney Safety Institute of America and handles the heavy structural repairs: crown rebuilds, flue relining with DuraFlex and HeatShield, and chimney repointing. Mike has a reputation for walking homeowners through exactly what he found, camera in hand, before a single dollar is discussed. He’s also the one the rest of the crew calls when a liner won’t cooperate in an older home. Off the clock, he restores old radios, which means he has strong opinions about the electrical wiring running through chimneys in homes built before 1950.

Gina R. – Senior Installer

Gina joined the team 11 years ago after working in historic masonry restoration, and she’s the person we put on complex flue relining and fireplace repair jobs throughout Hempstead. She’s factory trained on HeatShield and Gelco products, and she works with DuraFlex, Olympia Chimney, Famco, and Copperfield components daily. Gina handles the precise work: fitting liners through angled flues, matching mortar to original lime-based mixes on older Hempstead homes, and making sure smoke moves exactly where it should. Homeowners often comment on how clean she leaves the work area. She’s also an active volunteer with a local youth mentoring program and will politely refuse to skip the drop cloths.

Luis C. – Service Coordinator

Luis is the voice on the other end of (516) 559-6922, and he’s been with us since 2016. He schedules every Hempstead visit, walks customers through the written-price approach so nothing is a surprise, and keeps the 24-hour phone coverage running. Luis grew up in the village and knows the local streets well enough to tell you which parking spots are safe on a Thursday in Hempstead. Before joining Flint, he spent eight years in home-services dispatch, so he knows what a real emergency sounds like. He’s also the unofficial weather watcher for the team and will flag reschedules when nor’easter season makes chimney work unsafe.

Priya S. – Apprentice Technician

Priya is the newest member of the team, now in her second year with Flint Chimney Co Hempstead. She’s training toward full CSIA certification and works alongside Mike and Gina on sweeps, inspections, and minor repairs. Priya handles Level 1 inspections, bird and debris removal, and smoke-draw testing on Hempstead homes of all ages. She’s meticulous about the photo reports we provide with every inspection, which makes her popular with first-time customers who want to see what we saw. Priya is also fluent in three languages, which has quietly made our estimate conversations easier for quite a few Hempstead families.

One Standard, Every Job

Mike, Gina, Luis, and Priya all work the same way, because the company runs on a written agreement called The Garrison Standard, part of The Garrison Code that governs every independent location in the Garrison Partners family. That means every repair carries a 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing, valid for a full year from the service date. If a covered repair fails, we return at no charge. Every job gets a written price before work starts, with no exceptions. And every technician on the team is background-checked and uniformed, so when we schedule you, you know who’s coming. Hank Delano owns this location and works shoulder to shoulder with the crew whenever the schedule gets tight. If you have questions about your chimney in Hempstead, call (516) 559-6922. You’ll talk to one of us.

Written by Hank Delano, Owner at Flint Chimney Co Hempstead, serving Hempstead since 2002.