Chimney and duct cleaning in Clifton, NJ
Clifton starts just north of Bloomfield, about five miles from our base. More than half of its 34,611 homes are single-family houses, and nearly seven in ten were built before 1960.
In brief
In Clifton we sweep and inspect the chimneys of single-family and two family houses, service the gas flues most of them now use, and clean dryer vents and ducts.
Postwar houses with original chimneys
Clifton grew fast in the 1940s and 1950s: more than a fifth of today's homes were built in the 1950s alone. Many of those houses still have their first masonry chimney, now venting a gas furnace or boiler, since gas heats about 84 percent of the city. The liner in a chimney that age is often clay tile, and a cracked or offset tile is one of the most common findings on our camera. Close to three in ten homes are two to four family houses, where a chimney can serve two units at once. Fireplaces in the older capes and colonials get regular use in winter, and a yearly look at the flue is what NFPA 211 recommends for any of them.
Parts of Clifton we reach
- Botany Village
- Athenia
- Richfield
- Delawanna
- Allwood
- Montclair Heights
Services we bring to Clifton
- 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.
Clifton questions
Our Clifton house is from the 1950s. What do you usually find?
Often a clay tile liner with a crack or a gap at a joint, a crown that has started to crack, or a furnace flue that needs cleaning. The camera shows us which, and you see the same picture we do.
Do you clean dryer vents in Clifton?
Yes. We clear the full run from the dryer to the outside hood. In many split-levels and capes the vent goes through a basement wall, and those runs are easy for us to reach.
How quickly can you get to Clifton?
Clifton is about five miles from our Bloomfield base. Call from 7 am to 9 pm, or book online at any hour and we will call to confirm.
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