Honest good working local company. The amount they quoted me on the phone was the price I paid after the service was completed.
Chimney sweep and duct cleaning in Collingswood Borough, NJ
Collingswood is a streetcar suburb built almost entirely between 1910 and 1930 around the old Haddon Avenue trolley line, and close to half its houses still date from before 1940. It's also the far side of the county from Bloomfield, so a visit here goes on the calendar rather than into someone else's day. What that older stock means in practice is single stacks doing more work than they were ever meant to.
5.0from 38 Google reviews
The short answer
A lot of Collingswood's prewar houses were built with one masonry stack carrying several flues, and where two homes share a wall, that stack sometimes serves both — so a problem on one side can surface in the house next door.
One stack, two households, one problem
Collingswood grew up almost overnight, a streetcar suburb that went from around sixteen hundred people in 1900 to nearly nine thousand by 1920, built out around the Haddon Avenue trolley line in a rush of Foursquares, bungalows and Dutch Colonial Revivals. Close to half its housing predates 1940, and the building habit of the era was a single interior masonry stack carrying several flues rather than one flue per appliance — practical for one owner and one furnace, less so a century later, and especially so in the borough's twins and duplexes, where two households share what was built as one chimney. That shared arrangement is the finding that matters most here: a crack or a failed joint on one side of a party-wall stack can let exhaust or moisture reach the flue next door, and neither household can see it from their own living room. Add the borough's high renter turnover, which means every change of tenant — not only a sale — brings a required smoke and carbon monoxide check, and an old, undocumented stack gets far more official attention here than in a town of long-term owners.
Where the van goes in Collingswood Borough
- Knight Park
- Haddon Avenue corridor
- Collingswood Residential Historic District (Park Avenue, Collings Avenue, Browning Road, Haddon Avenue, Lakeview Drive)
- Newton Creek
- the PATCO Speedline station area
- Collingswood Commercial Historic District
Everything we do in Collingswood Borough
- Chimney sweepingCamera up first, brush second, photographs yours to keep
- Chimney inspectionLevel 1 or Level 2, and a report you can hand over
- Chimney repairCrown, cap, flashing, liner — whichever is letting water in
- Fireplace & stovePilots that will not hold, dampers that will not move
- Dryer vent cleaningLint out of the whole run, wall to hood
- Air duct cleaningThe honest answer, including when to skip it
- Duct repair & replacementCrushed, disconnected, or too far gone to clean
What Bloomfield homeowners say
5.0
38 reviews on Google
Read on
Expert setup, high-powered vacuums, and absolutely no dust residue. Excellent work.
Water had been leaking around the chimney flashing, but the repair solved it completely. The crew sealed and reinforced the affected area with precision. Rain is no longer a concern. The workmanship looks strong and durable.
Questions from Collingswood Borough
We're a duplex sharing a wall with our neighbor. Do we share a chimney too?
Often, yes, in Collingswood's older twins — one stack was built to serve both sides, with a separate flue for each. A crack or a failed joint on one side can let exhaust or water reach your neighbor's flue without either household noticing, so a camera scan of both flues is worth doing together rather than one at a time.
Our house is a Foursquare from the 1920s. Is one chimney normal for the whole house?
Very normal here — that era of Collingswood housing was mostly built with a single interior stack carrying flues for the fireplace and whatever heated the house, rather than a separate chimney for each. It's not a problem by itself, but it does mean a camera scan is the only real way to confirm which flue serves what.
We just moved into a rental here. Does the landlord need an inspection because of us?
Yes, most likely. Collingswood has one of the higher renter turnover rates we see, and a change of tenant — not just a change of owner — triggers a required smoke and carbon monoxide compliance check where any fuel-burning appliance is present. Worth asking the landlord directly if that's already been scheduled.
Our chimney hasn't been used in years — the house runs on electric heat. Does it still need attention?
It's worth a look even so. An old flue that's been abandoned in place doesn't stop admitting water or the occasional animal just because nothing's burning in it, and Collingswood has a fair number of houses in exactly that position. A scan settles whether it's fine as-is or worth capping properly.
Find us on Google
The Google listing behind those reviews is one tap away, and worth checking before you set a date for a visit this far south.