Chimney and duct cleaning in Union City, NJ
Union City is one of the densest places we work: 56.1 percent of its 27,408 homes are in buildings of five or more units, and fewer than one in ten is a single-family house.
In brief
In Union City most of our work is on boiler flues and shared chimneys in apartment buildings, plus dryer vents in buildings and individual units.
Walk-ups, tenements and one boiler stack
Union City is built tight on the Palisades, block after block of walk-ups and older apartment buildings. A typical building heats from one boiler in the basement, and its flue runs up a masonry chimney that also carries the water heater. When that flue clogs or its liner fails, exhaust can back up into the boiler room, so we check it from the bottom and the top. About a third of homes sit in two to four unit buildings, where the same layout repeats on a smaller scale. Single-family houses are rare here, so wood fireplaces are too. What every building has is laundry, and shared dryer vents on long runs are a steady part of our calls.
Parts of Union City we reach
- Central Union City
- West Hoboken
- Transfer Station
- North Hudson
Services we bring to Union City
- 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.
Union City questions
Who usually books chimney work in Union City, the owner or the tenant?
Usually the owner or the superintendent, since the boiler flue serves the whole building. Tenants are welcome to call us about a smell or a dryer vent in their own unit.
Do you need roof access for an apartment building?
When we can get it, yes. Looking at the stack from the roof shows the crown, the cap and the top of the liner. If the roof is not safe to reach, we work from the boiler room and tell you what we could and could not see.
How far is Union City from you?
About nine 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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