Honest good working local company. The amount they quoted me on the phone was the price I paid after the service was completed.
Chimney and duct work in Bloomfield, NJ
The van lives here, so a Bloomfield address is the one we can usually reach soonest. It is also the town that taught us what to look for: nearly everything here predates 1940, which means chimneys designed around coal that have since been handed an oil burner and then a gas boiler, with nobody resizing anything in between.
5.0from 38 Google reviews
The short answer
Everything we do — sweeping, camera work, repairs, duct and dryer runs — happens across this township, and on housing this old the screen goes on before the tools come out.
What we find on Bloomfield jobs
Nine times out of ten the thing worth writing down has nothing to do with dirt. It is a shaft built to carry coal smoke now handling a modern gas boiler that produces perhaps a tenth of the volume and none of the heat. Exhaust that slow gives up its warmth to a lot of cold brick, turns back into water somewhere below the crown, and that water is mildly acidic. Give it fifteen winters and it eats the bedding between the tiles; give it thirty and it comes through to the outside of the stack as white bloom or brick faces shedding like old paint. Next in frequency is the smoke chamber nobody ever rendered smooth — stepped brick, enormous surface area, and the reason a proper sweep here takes longer than people expect. Cross the township towards the newer streets and none of that applies: there the work is crowns, caps and the metalwork where the stack comes through the roof.
Where the van goes in Bloomfield
- Watsessing
- Brookdale
- Oak View
- Brookside
- Bloomfield Center
- Broughton Avenue
- North of the Green
Everything we do in Bloomfield
- 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 Bloomfield
How quickly can you get to a Bloomfield address?
Sooner than anywhere else we cover, because this is where the day starts. Rather than assuming there is a waiting list, phone and ask what is open — quite often something is, particularly outside the fortnight after the first hard frost.
My boiler was switched from oil to gas. Does that matter?
More than almost anything else about your chimney, and it is what we write up most often in this township. The shaft is now oversized for what feeds it, the exhaust turns to water partway up, and that water goes to work on the brickwork from the inside. What fixes it is a steel liner cut to the appliance, not to the hole.
Our house is in the historic district. Does that change the work?
Only what happens on the outside. Sweeping, scanning and lining go on as normal, since none of it alters the elevation. Anything that would change how the stack reads from the street is worth clearing with the district first, and we will raise it when we see it rather than after the invoice.
We are a two-family off the avenue. Which flue is ours?
Nobody can answer that from the living room, which is why the camera runs each shaft from the crown while somebody watches the appliance below. Settle it before anything is swept. What the previous owner told you is right roughly half the time, and half is not a useful number here.
Find us on Google
The same listing those 38 reviews sit on. Thirty seconds to confirm we are a real outfit in this town before you dial.