Chimney and duct cleaning in Newark, NJ
Newark is the largest city we serve, with 121,546 homes, and four in ten of them are in buildings of two to four units. A shared stack between floors or next-door neighbors is the normal starting point here.
In brief
In Newark we sweep, inspect and repair chimneys in row houses, two and three family homes and larger buildings, and we clean the dryer vents and ducts inside them.
Two and three family houses, one chimney
In a Newark two or three family house, each apartment usually has its own boiler or water heater, and their flues often run up the same masonry stack. When one tenant reports a smell or a stain, the cause can sit in a flue that belongs to another floor, so we identify each flue and what feeds it before cleaning anything. Gas heats about two thirds of the city, and only 2.5 percent of households still burn oil, which means many old flues now vent much cooler gas exhaust than they were built for. The city also has seven historic districts on the National Register, from Forest Hill to Weequahic Park, where brick and brownstone row houses date from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Parts of Newark we reach
- Ironbound
- Forest Hill
- Vailsburg
- Weequahic
- North Ward
- Roseville
- University Heights
Services we bring to Newark
- 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.
Newark questions
We share a chimney with the apartment upstairs. Who should call?
Either of you can. We inspect the whole stack and tell you which flue serves which unit, so the owner and each tenant know where a problem sits. If the building has one owner, that is usually the person who books.
Do you handle row houses in Newark?
Yes. Attached houses share walls and sometimes chimney chases, so we check both sides of a shared stack when we can reach them and note anything that crosses the party wall.
Is Newark within your regular area?
Yes, it is about four miles from our Bloomfield base. Call any day from 7 am to 9 pm, or book online at any hour.
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