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 Pennsauken Township, NJ
Pennsauken sits at the Camden County edge of our service area, low along the Delaware River, so a visit here is arranged ahead rather than fitted into a day already underway elsewhere. It's worth knowing the township well: two distinct chimney ages sit side by side on the same streets, a pre-1940 layer built for coal and a 1950s layer built right after it.
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The short answer
Pennsauken's oldest stacks were built for coal, and the finding we write up more than any other is a single gas water heater left alone in a flue three or four times too large for it.
The stack that outlived its furnace
Pennsauken carries two building eras on the same blocks, and both change what a visit here looks like. Close to a fifth of the township's houses went up before 1940, in the original river settlements — solid masonry chimneys built for coal, handed an oil burner and, in plenty of cases, a gas appliance after that, with nobody resizing the flue in between. Right alongside that stock sits a wave of thinner 1950s brick and clay tile, built at a time when one chimney routinely carried both a fireplace and the house's heating plant. What a camera turns up most often here is the older pattern taken to its endpoint: a gas water heater sitting by itself in a shaft built for a coal or oil furnace several times its size, exhaust cooling and condensing on the way up rather than clearing the top, and years of that condensate working on the mortar from the inside before anything shows outside. In the township's converted two- and three-family houses it gets more tangled still — one stack, several flues, and no way to say which serves which until somebody looks.
Where the van goes in Pennsauken Township
- Delair
- Fish House
- Merchantville Park
- Morris
- Morrisville
- Bethel
- Wellwood
- Delaware Gardens
- Amon Heights
- East Pennsauken
- Hillcrest
- Homesteadville
- Jordantown
- Dudley
- Biedemon
- North Pennsville
Everything we do in Pennsauken Township
- 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
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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 Pennsauken Township
My furnace was switched from oil to gas years ago — does the old chimney still matter?
It matters more than most people think. The flue was sized for the oil burner, not the smaller gas appliance now feeding it, so the exhaust cools and turns to moisture partway up instead of clearing the top. That moisture is what eats at the mortar from the inside, and a liner sized to the actual appliance is usually the fix.
We're a two-family near the avenue. How do we know which flue is which?
Nobody can tell from inside either apartment, which is exactly why the camera runs each flue from the top while somebody watches the appliance below before anything gets swept. In a lot of Pennsauken's older converted houses, one stack was built to carry more than one flue, and settling that first saves confusion later.
Our basement smells damp near the chimney base. Is that normal for this area?
It's common enough here to ask about directly. Pennsauken sits on the lowest ground in Camden County, right along the Delaware, and older basement masonry in this part of town holds onto moisture longer than it would further inland. Worth mentioning when you call, since it can point to where the water is actually getting in.
Is fall the best time to book a sweep in Pennsauken?
It tends to be, mostly because everybody else has the same idea once the weather turns, and being this far into Camden County we would rather set a date than promise a same-day slot we can't actually keep. Calling before the first cold week gives you the pick of the calendar instead of whatever's left on it.
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