Chimney Inspection & Cleaning in Bloomfield, NJ
Serving Brookdale, Watsessing, Bloomfield Center, Brookside, North Center. $49 inspection, $99 inspection plus a full cleaning, and photographs of everything we find.
Inspection
Full Cleaning
✓ Free inspection included with every cleaning
Bloomfield, Essex County
What chimneys are like in Bloomfield
Bloomfield is mostly a 1920s-to-1950s town, and the chimney work reflects that. Brookdale and the streets north of Broad are full of center-hall colonials and Cape Cods from the twenties and thirties, and the majority of them still have the original clay-tile-lined masonry chimney serving a fireplace on one flue and the heating system on the other.
The single most common thing we find in Bloomfield is the orphaned flue. A house that once burned oil got converted to a high-efficiency gas furnace that vents out a PVC pipe through the sidewall, and the water heater was left venting alone into a masonry flue sized for a much bigger appliance. That water heater cannot produce enough heat to keep a chimney that size warm. The exhaust condenses, the condensate is mildly acidic, and it works on the clay tiles and the mortar year after year. By the time we scope it, the tiles are often flaking and the flue is partially blocked by its own debris -- which is a carbon monoxide problem, not just a masonry problem.
Watsessing and the blocks near the Newark line have more two-family houses and tighter lots, and there we spend more time confirming that each unit's appliances are venting where the homeowner thinks they are. It is not unusual to find that a previous owner tied two appliances into one undersized flue during a renovation.
On our Bloomfield calls
What we find here most
- Orphaned water heater flues left after high-efficiency furnace conversions
- Flaking and shifting clay tile liners in 1920s-40s colonials
- Debris blockage at the smoke shelf restricting draft
- Improperly combined appliance venting in two-family homes
None of that is unusual for the housing stock here, and most of it is cheaper to deal with early. The $49 inspection tells you which of these you actually have.
Book in Bloomfield
$49 inspection · $99 with a full cleaning.
$49 means $49.
You have probably read that a cheap chimney offer is bait, and that the number changes once the technician is standing in your living room. That happens, and it is a fair thing to be wary of.
So here is our commitment in plain language. The price you booked is the price you pay for the inspection or the cleaning. Our technician does not arrive and rewrite it. If we find something that genuinely needs repair, you get photographs of the problem and a written price, and you are free to say no, think about it, or get two other quotes. Nobody will push you.
If your chimney is fine, our report will say so and we will go home. That is a normal outcome.
Services in Bloomfield
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Bloomfield questions
Straight answers
Do you actually come out to Bloomfield?
Yes. Bloomfield is inside our core service area in Essex County and we work there regularly. Same-day is often available if you call before noon.
Is it still $49 in Bloomfield?
Yes. The $49 inspection and the $99 inspection-plus-cleaning are the same everywhere we work. There is no travel surcharge for Bloomfield.
Is the $49 inspection really $49?
Yes. It is a flat price for the inspection visit and it does not change when the technician arrives. If we find repairs you need, we photograph them and give you a written price you are free to decline.
What is included in the $99?
A full chimney sweep — brushing the entire flue, cleaning the smoke shelf, smoke chamber and firebox, with HEPA containment — plus the complete inspection, which is free when you book a cleaning. You get a written report with before and after photographs.
How long does it take?
An inspection on a typical single-flue house is about forty-five minutes to an hour. An inspection plus a full cleaning is usually ninety minutes to two hours depending on the condition of the flue and roof access.