ATLANTA FIREPLACE SPECIALISTS - Key Persons
For general questions, project submissions and scheduling, Lance's wife is available to assist. She takes great pride in not only providing the best service possible for our clients, but making sure you feel apart of the AFS family.
She is truly invested in your safety as well as putting a smile on your face while doing it.
Job Titles:
- Office Assistant
- Web Designer
As the son of our family, Ezra helps assist behind the scenes with office work and managing our website. He works to log customer information for Ami, as well as work in matters of coding and website management. Ezra is a wonderful addition and support within our family business and is now a third generation Blackford to work within the housing market. He has plans to go to college and become an artist/programmer for video games and animation. He has already completed one year at SCAD while being duel enrolled during his senior year of high school. We are very proud of him and enjoy his assistance in the office while he completes his college degree.
Job Titles:
- Owner / Master Technician
With over 20 years of experience as a fireplace / chimney specialist, Lance is truly proficient in his field. His journey with fireplaces began in 1998 when he accepted a position as an installer for Ace Fireplace in Norcross, GA. However, Lance's knowledge with construction goes back much farther than that. His parents were both individually award winning home builders in the Atlanta area since before he was born. Lance worked for his parents for much of his young life, starting around the age 8. By 11 he was operating a Bobcat loader for his parents to assist with the family business.
Lance is a CSIA certified chimney sweep and is currently working on obtaining several other nationally recognized certifications/accolades. He has garnered the respect from others in his industry for being one of the top people in his field. Lance's popularity really took off around 2015 when he began performing "Fireplace Makeovers." Lance brings a lifetime of knowledge to the table so that he can make revisions to older homes all while respecting current building safety codes. He is a stickler in doing things right or not at all. Lance is a well-respected craftsman, and treats each of his projects with the utmost care.
He provides top notch service for the fairest prices. No matter what, Lance makes sure to get the job done, and strives to satisfy our clients beyond their expectations.