Chimney and duct cleaning in Elizabeth, NJ
Elizabeth is a dense, older city about nine miles south of Bloomfield. Almost half of its 48,976 homes are two to four family houses, and gas heats 85.7 percent of households.
In brief
In Elizabeth we clean and inspect the gas flues and chimneys of multi-family houses and apartment buildings, and we clear dryer vents and ducts.
Gas flues in multi-family houses
Gas heats nearly every home in Elizabeth, and only one household in sixty still burns oil. That makes the boiler and water heater flues the core of our work here, more than wood fireplaces. In a two or three family house, those flues often share one masonry chimney, and a gas flue that is too large for its appliance or partly blocked by a fallen tile can push exhaust back into a basement. Just over half of the city was built before 1960, so clay liners and older crowns are common. The Elizabethport and downtown streets also carry a good number of large apartment buildings, where we work with the owner or superintendent on shared stacks.
Parts of Elizabeth we reach
- Elmora
- Bayway
- Peterstown
- Midtown
- North Elizabeth
- Frog Hollow
Services we bring to Elizabeth
- 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.
Elizabeth questions
Do gas furnace flues need cleaning in Elizabeth?
They need inspection every year, and cleaning when the camera shows debris, a nest or fallen liner pieces. Gas burns clean, but the flue around it can still fail or get blocked.
We are a two family house. Can you check both units?
Yes. We inspect every flue in the chimney and tell each unit what we found, with photographs, so nobody has to guess whose flue is whose.
When can you come to Elizabeth?
Call from 7 am to 9 pm any day and we will give you the first opening, or book online at any hour and we will call to confirm.
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