Chimney and duct cleaning in Fair Lawn, NJ
Fair Lawn is a borough of single-family houses: 75.6 percent of its 12,500 homes are detached, and a third of them were built in the 1950s alone. It is about eleven miles north of our Bloomfield base.
In brief
In Fair Lawn we sweep and inspect the chimneys of mid-century single-family houses, service their gas, oil and propane flues, and clean dryer vents and ducts.
Mid-century houses, one chimney each
Most of Fair Lawn went up between 1940 and 1960, and a typical house from those years has one brick chimney with a fireplace flue and a furnace or boiler flue beside it. Those chimneys are now seventy years old or more, so the crown, the cap and the clay liner are where we start. Gas heats about 81 percent of the borough, but oil and propane together still heat close to one home in eleven, and an oil flue needs cleaning more often than a gas one. Fair Lawn is also home to Radburn, a planned community laid out in 1929, whose houses are older than most of the town around them.
Parts of Fair Lawn we reach
- Radburn
- Memorial Park
- Warren Point
- Columbia Heights
- Broadway
- Dunkerhook
Services we bring to Fair Lawn
- Chimney sweepingFlue brushed and vacuumed, firebox left clean
- Chimney inspectionLevel 1 or Level 2, explained before any work
- Chimney repairCrowns, caps, flashing, liners and brickwork
- Fireplace & stoveDampers, doors, gaskets and the flue behind them
- Dryer vent cleaningLint pulled out from the dryer to the wall hood
- Air duct cleaningSupply and return runs, registers and grilles
- Duct repair & replacementLoose, crushed or torn runs fixed or replaced
Reviews from our Google listing
A selection of our 5-star reviews on Google.
A hundred years of lime mortar requires a careful, low-RPM touch, and that antique sensibility was obvious in the preservation-grade sweeping of our 1910 hearth.
Soot was cleaned from the flue lining with non-abrasive polymer heads, leaving the critical structural integrity of the ceramic glaze undamaged.
Before any damage to the fundamental integrity of the ceiling, we were able to fix the outside chimney leaks after identifying significant water damage behind the lead counter-flashing.
Fair Lawn questions
Our Fair Lawn cape has a fireplace we use every weekend. How often should it be swept?
At least once a year, and an inspection every year either way, as NFPA 211 recommends. If you burn a lot or burn wood that is not fully dry, a mid-season check is worth it.
Do you work on propane flues too?
Yes. Propane appliances vent through a flue or a direct vent like gas ones, and we inspect them the same way.
How far are you from Fair Lawn?
About eleven miles from our base in Bloomfield. Call from 7 am to 9 pm any day, or book online at any hour.
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