Chimney and duct cleaning in Passaic, NJ
Passaic has the oldest housing of any town we cover: 58.4 percent of its 21,693 homes were built before 1940. The city is about six miles north of our Bloomfield base.
In brief
In Passaic we inspect and clean the chimneys and boiler flues of prewar apartment buildings and multi-family houses, and we clear the dryer vents in them.
Prewar masonry, mostly apartments
More than half of Passaic was standing before 1940, and four homes in five were built before 1970. Fewer than one in five homes is a single-family house: the rest are walk-ups and larger apartment buildings, many of them brick, with a boiler in the basement and a tall masonry chimney carrying its exhaust. Masonry that old has been through decades of freeze and thaw, so the crown, the mortar near the top and the clay liner inside get most of our attention. Gas heats about 84 percent of households now, and the boiler flue is where we look first, since a blockage there sends exhaust back into the building.
Parts of Passaic we reach
- Dundee
- Third Ward
- Passaic Park
- Lakeview
Services we bring to Passaic
- 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.
Passaic questions
Do you work on boiler chimneys for apartment buildings in Passaic?
Yes. We inspect and clean boiler and water heater flues, check the crown and the top of the stack, and give the owner a written list of what we found, with photographs.
Our building is from the 1920s. Is the chimney safe to keep using?
Age alone does not decide that. We put a camera down the flue and look at the liner, the joints and the top of the stack, then tell you plainly if anything needs work before the heating season.
How far is Passaic from you?
About six miles from our base in Bloomfield. We are on the phone from 7 am to 9 pm every day, and online booking is open 24/7.
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