CSIA in NCSG's Sweeping magazine, February 2015
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CSIA’s update of our Successful Chimney Sweep reference manual, an effort that will make our credentialed chimney sweeps and dryer exhaust technicians become better at their job, is on to its next phase, says Chuck Roydhouse, a 20-year CSIA Certified Chimney Sweep who is leading the manual/review/exam upgrade as part of his board of director duties. The SCS manual, which debuted in the 1980s, had its eighth edition in October 2011. The end benefit is to help homeowners and businesses. “We’re currently ready to start our next update, which actually instead of an update is going to be a rewrite. We are going to create a new manual and the reason for that is because, as with everything else like technology and training, our certification process has moved to a different level,” Roydhouse said. “We are no longer just chimney sweeps; we are chimney sweep technicians. There’s a lot going on with indoor air quality, how chimneys perform, and how chimneys are healthy, that a technician needs to be aware of. We’re going to add some things dealing with that. We’re going to update the curriculum, update the testing, and make it more in line with what you’re going to find in today’s world working in the chimney industry.” Roydhouse has advice for the approximately 1,500 CSIA Certified Chimney Sweeps plus 300 CSIA Certified Dryer Exhaust Technicians. “What you would want to do is continue your certification,” Roydhouse said. “Just because we are changing the manual would give you no reason to stop using traditional methods that we’re using now as far as certification. Keeping the certification is key; as the certification changes and evolves and other certifications are added, you’ll be grandfathered in. There will be a way to pass over to the new certification. No one will be left behind; no one will be left out if their certification lapses because it’s the old one. We will have a way to bring everybody into the fold.” Roydhouse, owner of Clean Sweep of Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Chimney Service Inc., is in charge of educational development and was appointed by CSIA President Mark A. Stoner to be chair of the committee that is working with an outside contractor — a test specialist known as a psychometrician. Following meetings with special task forces that were asked to review current chimney sweep practices from all over the U.S., the psychometrician sent out surveys to thousands of professionals asking them for their input, with a deadline of Jan. 26. CSIA’s goal is comprehensive textbooks that will be even more relevant, Roydhouse said. “The surveys will help the oversight committees looking at each certification to get an understanding of what test-takers are interested in.” “Students seeking certification will continue to use the current edition of the manual, along with the NFPA 211 (Inspection) and the International Residential Code,” according to “We are no longer just chimney sweeps; we are chimney sweep technicians. We’re going to update the curriculum, update the testing, and make it more in line with what you’re going to find in today’s world, working in the chimney industry.” -- Chuck Roydhouse, CSIA Board of Directors CSIA Update www.CSIA.org FEBRUARY 2015 REPORT ADVERTISEMENT CSIA certifications to improve Committees to upgrade chimney sweeping and dryer exhaust manuals, add a liner credential CSIA Director of Education Ashley Eldridge. “We are committed to ensuring that all of our publications, including Successful Chimney Sweeping manual, reflect the most up-to-date content that is beneficial to professionals on the job. Those in the chimney industry that are certified through CSIA can be confident of that,” Eldridge said. The SCS will get revamped by spring 2016, with the C-DET process to follow. We also have additional exciting news to announce as part of this dual CCS/C-DET exam and manual upgrade. Due to popular demand, the Chimney Safety Institute of America is likely to expand our educational lineup to include a new credential regarding the installation of stainless steel liners. The Stainless Steel Technician credential will give chimney professionals the experience and expertise to handle this popular service to homeowners. CSIA, of course, will help market this new credential as we do with the CCS and C-DET certifications. Several CSIA Certified Chimney Sweeps have told staff that they appreciate the board’s decision to always keep our education/ training current.
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CSIA’s update of our Successful Chimney Sweep reference manual, an effort that will make our credentialed chimney sweeps and dryer exhaust technicians become better at their job, is on to its next phase, says Chuck Roydhouse, a 20-year CSIA Certified Chimney Sweep who is leading the manual/review/exam upgrade as part of his board of director duties. The SCS manual, which debuted in the 1980s, had its eighth edition in October 2011. The end benefit is to help homeowners and businesses.
“We’re currently ready to start our next update, which actually instead of an update is going to be a rewrite. We are going to create a new manual and the reason for that is because, as with everything else like technology and training, our certification process has moved to a different level,” Roydhouse said. “We are no longer just chimney sweeps; we are chimney sweep technicians. There’s a lot going on with indoor air quality, how chimneys perform, and how chimneys are healthy, that a technician needs to be aware of. We’re going to add some things dealing with that. We’re going to update the curriculum, update the testing, and make it more in line with what you’re going to find in today’s world working in the chimney industry.”
Roydhouse has advice for the approximately 1,500 CSIA Certified Chimney Sweeps plus 300 CSIA Certified Dryer Exhaust Technicians. “What you would want to do is continue your certification,” Roydhouse said. “Just because we are changing the manual would give you no reason to stop using traditional methods that we’re using now as far as certification. Keeping the certification is key; as the certification changes and evolves and other certifications are added, you’ll be grandfathered in.
There will be a way to pass over to the new certification. No one will be left behind; no one will be left out if their certification lapses because it’s the old one. We will have a way to
bring everybody into the fold.”
Roydhouse, owner of Clean Sweep of Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Chimney Service Inc., is in charge of educational development and was appointed by CSIA President Mark A. Stoner to be chair of the committee that is working with an outside contractor — a test specialist known as a psychometrician.
Following meetings with special task forces that were asked to review current chimney sweep practices from all over the U.S., the psychometrician sent out surveys to thousands of professionals asking them for their input, with a deadline of Jan. 26. CSIA’s goal is comprehensive textbooks that will be even more relevant, Roydhouse said. “The surveys will help the oversight committees looking at each certification to get an understanding of what test-takers are interested in.”
“Students seeking certification will continue to use the current edition of the manual, along with the NFPA 211 (Inspection) and the International Residential Code,” according to
“We are no longer just chimney sweeps; we are chimney sweep technicians. We’re going to update the curriculum, update the testing, and make it more in line with what you’re going to find in today’s world, working in the chimney industry.”
-- Chuck
Roydhouse,
CSIA Board of
Directors
CSIA Update www.CSIA.orgFEBRUARY 2015 REPORT
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CSIA certifications to improveCommittees to upgrade chimney sweeping and dryer exhaust manuals, add a liner credential
CSIA Director of Education Ashley Eldridge.
“We are committed to ensuring that all of our publications, including Successful Chimney Sweeping manual, reflect the most up-to-date content that is beneficial to professionals on the job. Those in the chimney industry that are certified through CSIA can be confident of that,” Eldridge said.
The SCS will get revamped by spring 2016, with the C-DET process to follow.
We also have additional exciting news to announce as part of this dual CCS/C-DET exam and manual upgrade.
Due to popular demand, the Chimney Safety Institute of America is likely to expand our educational lineup to include a new credential regarding the installation of stainless steel liners. The Stainless Steel Technician credential will give chimney professionals the experience and expertise to handle this popular service to homeowners.
CSIA, of course, will help market this new credential as we do with the CCS and C-DET certifications.
Several CSIA Certified Chimney Sweeps have told staff that they appreciate the board’s decision to always keep our education/training current.
www.CSIA.orgFEBRUARY 2015 REPORT
New CSIA Certified Chimney Sweeps
California
Joe Allen|White Glove Chimney and Duct|Redding
Florida
Tammara Quintard|Doodlebuggers|Pensacola
Georgia
Levi Romans | Original Chimney Sweep| Watkinsville
Indiana
Kenny Bunch | Chimney & Masonry Outfitters | Indianapolis
Maryland
Rocco P. Bersane, Jr.|Magic Broom Chimney Sweeps |Waldorf
North Carolina
Michael Quigley | Smoke Alert | Garner
Tennessee
Robert (Bobby) Keeley | Patriot Chimney | Collierville
Timothy Simpson | Ashbusters Chimney Service Inc. | Smyrna
Thomas P. Manus, II | Ashbusters Chimney Service Inc. | Smyrna
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PRESIDENT’S NOTE
CSIA Certified Chimney Sweeps, Renewed With CEUs
Website for C-DET techs The chimney and venting indus-try’s No. 1 website — csia.org — had over 961,000 page views and 430,000 unique visitors in 2014. We have positioned ourselves as a go-to resource for the con-sumer. Now we’re excited to announce a consumer-oriented website that will provide value to those who hold the C-DET, or Certified Dryer Exhaust Techni-cian, credential. Our new website is dryersafety.org. We already have used that URL so it has a high search ranking from Google and other websites. We are packing this site with a lot of helpful infor-
Mark A. Stoner, CSIA President
New CSIA Certified Dryer Exhaust Technicians
Ohio
Thomas Lewis|Mr Sweep of Cincinnati |Liberty Township
California
Randy Brooks|Brooks Chimney Sweeping|Ojai
New Jersey
Jeff Leonard|Leonard’s Chimney Sweep|Southampton
Pennsylvania
Richard Anderson | Anderson’s Chimney Sweeps, Inc.| New Cumberland
Tennessee
Josh Lee | Ashbusters Chimney Service Inc.| Smyrna
Wisconsin
Howard Rowell|Royal Chimney Service|Milwaukee
mation, including showcasing dryer vent nightmares, giving consumers a “risk calculator,” showcasing dry-er vent-related fires that have been reported in the media, and having a blog, videos, and other social media elements. We aim to make this the most useful website for this topic in the industry. This website will include a free zip-code locator search engine, similar to what our techs enjoy on csia.org. We’ll also keep our C-DET pros visible on csia.org. Simply put, when they find us, they find YOU. Because just a few referrals pays the cost of your three-year certification, it’s the best form of advertisement. It can work for you, too.Sweeps Week 2015 - I’ll be there, will you? Fellow sweeps, make sure and join us for a fun time June 8-12 at the CSIA Technology Center in Plainfield, Indiana. We’ll be tackling construction projects at our 10,000-square-foot facility. This is also going to be Year 4 of assembly of our beau-tifully-built fireplace/pizza bake oven (shown in the picture). Ron and Renee Brigman are leading this event, which features food and multiple days’ worth of CEUs. CSIAccess - do you get it? We distribute a newsletter by e-mail once per month that is designed to go to CSIA certified personnel, as well as pros no longer credentialed. CSIAc-cess is short but news-packed. If you aren’t getting it, but want to, e-mail [email protected]. We can help any-time at [email protected].
Ron and Renee Brigman pose next to our fireplace/pizza bake oven.
www.CSIA.orgFEBRUARY 2015 REPORT
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From Philly ...
EDUCATION THERE & HERE
John Pilger (top photos), CSIA Past President, spoke to more than 50 home inspectors January 8 in Philadelphia, PA on “Chimney Darwins” then gave a talk on“Chimney Inspections” to over 100 inspectors on January 9. It was part of ASHI InspectionWorld 2015, where CSIA exhibited over the course of four days. CSIA Board Members Chuck Roydhouse and Michael Segerstrom (left and right center) helmed the booth along with Pilger and Tom Spalding, who showed scores of inspectors the csia.org finder on our tablet. We also had a caricature artist in our booth. On Jan. 22 in Plainfield, Indiana, CSIA Edu-cation Director Ashley Eldridge gave a two-hour presentation to 20 firefighters from our town, teaching them about chimney issues and venting techniques.
Affiliated & informed
... to Plainfield
CSIA 2015Education CalendarAs of 1/22/15 - Schedule subject to change. Please contact the Chimney Safety Institute of America prior to making travel arrangements.
National Chimney Sweep Training School March 23 – 28 | CSIA Technology Center
June 22 – 27 | CSIA Technology Center
August 24 – 29 | CSIA Technology Center
Sept. 28 – Oct. 3 | CSIA Technology Center
Fundamentals of sweeping and inspection of chimney systems, equipment operation, health and safety considerations and step-by-step instruction in codes, clearances, standards and practices. CCS CEUs: 4-T, 4-CS, 4-CL, 4-HS NFI CEUs: 16-T
Installing and Troubleshooting Gas Hearth AppliancesJuly 20 – 24 | CSIA Technology Center
Service and installation, including appliance standards, combustion requirements, pipe sizing and installation, troubleshooting, carbon monoxide testing and fuel conversion.
CSIA CEUs: 4-T, 4-CS, 4-HS, 4-CL NFI CEUs: 16-T
Chimney Physics April 16 – 17 | CSIA Technology Center
August 10 – 11 | CSIA Technology Center
Diagnosis and resolution of chimney performance issues, solving air pressure problems, identifying the symptoms of indoor air pollutants, determining combustion air requirements for vented appliances. CSIA CEUs: 3-T, 3-CS, 3-HS, 3-CL NFI CEUs: 4-E
Inspection and Report WritingMay 11 – 12 | CSIA Technology CenterOct. 15 – 16 | CSIA Technology CenterChimney inspections and evaluations, report writing including regional and environmental influences, effective photo documentation, digital organization and administrative procedures. CSIA CEUs: 4-T, 4-CS, 4-CL NFI CEUs: 12-T
CSIA Certified Chimney Sweep® Review & ExamFebruary 17 | Lancaster, PA [part of NCSG 2015 Convention]
March 13 | CSIA Technology Center, Plainfield, IN
May 15 | Scranton, PA [sponsored by Olympia Chimney Supply]
June 5 | CSIA Technology Center, Plainfield, IN
July 31 | CSIA Technology Center, Plainfield, IN
August 7 | Richmond, VA
September 18 | Atlantic City, NJ
October 16 | Albany, NY
November 13 | CSIA Technology Center
In-person intensive review sessions help candidates prepare for the exams. The review sessions are not a substitute for advanced study. CSIA CEUs: 1.50-T, 1.50-CS, 1.50-HS, 1.50-CL NFI CEUS: 6-T
CSIA Certified Dryer Exhaust Technician® 2-Day Workshop/ Exam July 29 – 30 | CSIA Technology Center
November 5 – 6 | CSIA Technology Center
In-person intensive review sessions, along with hands-on instruction, help candidates prepare for the exam. CSIA CEUs: 9-T, .5-CS, .5-HS, 1-CL
Online classes anytime access | csia.org
Over 70 courses to choose from, with a bevy of CEUs. Curriculum is online, so you can sign up and start learning at the convenience of home or work!
Register today at www.CSIA.org or call us at (317) 837-5362.
CSIA Certified Dryer Exhaust Technician® 1-Day Review / Exam February 17 | Lancaster, PA [part of NCSG 2015 Convention]
March 20 | Independence, MO [hosted by Midwest Chimney Safety Council]
In-person intensive review sessions help candidates prepare for the exam. CSIA CEUs: 1.25-T, 1.25-CS, 1-HS, 1-CL
Masonry Repair for Chimney Professionals [2-Day]August 13 – 14 | CSIA Technology Center
An intensive class combining a short period of classroom theory followed by hands-on projects. Students will learn how to mix mortar and how to lay brick as well as learning joint finishing, tools of the trade, and all aspects of chimney repair. CSIA CEUs: 12-T
