Chimney and duct cleaning in Union Township, NJ
Union Township is mostly single-family houses, and most of them went up in the 1940s and 1950s. Of its 22,068 homes, 60.6 percent were built before 1960, and the 1950s alone account for a quarter of the town.
In brief
In Union Township we sweep and inspect the chimneys of postwar single-family houses, service their gas and oil flues, and clean dryer vents and ducts.
Capes, colonials and the chimney between them
Union grew into a suburb after the Second World War, and its streets show it: nearly two thirds of the homes are detached houses, built mostly between 1940 and 1960. A typical one has a brick chimney with a fireplace flue and a second flue for the furnace or boiler. Gas heats about 80 percent of the township now, and 741 households still use fuel oil, so we see both kinds of soot. Chimneys this age often need work at the top: crowns crack, caps rust, and flashing at the roof line lets water in long before anything shows inside. The town is older than its houses, too. In Connecticut Farms, one of its neighborhoods, the Presbyterian church dates back to 1730.
Parts of Union Township we reach
- Vauxhall
- Connecticut Farms
- Townley
- Putnam Manor
- Galloping Hill
- Battle Hill
Services we bring to Union Township
- 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 Township questions
Our Union house has a fireplace and a furnace flue. Do you clean both?
Yes. We inspect both flues, clean the one that needs it, and tell you separately what we found in each, with photographs.
Is Union Township in your regular area?
Yes. It is about eight miles from our Bloomfield base. Call from 7 am to 9 pm any day, or book online at any hour.
We still heat with oil. How often should the flue be looked at?
Every year. Oil leaves soot and scale in the flue, and a yearly inspection with cleaning as needed keeps the burner venting the way it should.
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