Chimney service
in Bloomfield
Serving Brookdale, Watsessing, Bloomfield Center, Brookside, North Center. Inspections, cleaning and masonry repair, all documented with pictures.
on site
included
Bloomfield, Essex County
What we see
on these houses
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 can't 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's not unusual to find that a previous owner tied two appliances into one undersized flue during a renovation.
On our Bloomfield calls
What turns up here
- 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
That list is ordinary for the buildings around here. Which of them applies to your chimney is exactly what the $49 scan answers.
Book in Bloomfield
Inspection $49 · Cleaning $99
What happens on the visit
- We protect your floor and hearth before anything else
- A camera goes in the flue, bottom to top — not a flashlight
- We check the firebox, damper, smoke shelf and the crown above the roofline
- We confirm which appliances vent into which flue
- You get a written report with photographs the same day
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Straight answers
Do you actually come out to Bloomfield?
We do. Bloomfield and every other New Jersey town; give us the zip code and we'll confirm a time.
What does it cost in Bloomfield?
Inspection $49, cleaning $99, inspection included with the cleaning. No separate charge for reaching Bloomfield.
Our chimney only serves the furnace. Does that matter?
Yes. A flue serving a furnace or a water heater gets the same $49 inspection, and it's usually overdue.
How old are the houses you usually work on around here?
A good share of Bloomfield is mid-century or older, which means clay-lined masonry and mortar that has had decades of freeze and thaw. That's the housing stock this service is built around.