For our homeowner's insurance, we needed proof. They did a full check with photos and video, cleaned the flue, fixed some small problems with the mortar, and sent a professional report the same day. The insurance company agreed to cover…
Chimney sweep and repair in Collingswood Borough, NJ
Collingswood grew up around the Haddon Avenue trolley line in the 1910s and 1920s, and close to half its houses still date from before 1940. Those foursquares and bungalows were usually built with one interior masonry stack doing several jobs at once, carrying flues for a fireplace and a heating appliance that has likely been replaced more than once since the house went up.
5.0from 24 Google reviews
The short answer
We sweep, inspect and repair chimneys in Collingswood, working out which of the several flues in an old stack actually serves what before anything gets touched. We also clean dryer vents and air ducts for the borough's twins, duplexes and apartment buildings.
What we find on Collingswood jobs
The recurring problem in Collingswood starts with the house itself: a foursquare or bungalow from the 1910s or 1920s boom was usually built around one interior masonry stack carrying several flues, not one. Over a hundred years, the appliance connected to each flue has often changed more than once, and there is rarely a record left of which flue serves what, so the first real work on an old Collingswood chimney is figuring that out before a brush goes anywhere near it. The borough's twins and duplexes add a second pattern: one masonry stack straddling the party wall, serving two separate households, where a crack or a gap lets combustion gas move from one flue into its neighbor. Neither homeowner can see that from their own living room. And in a borough that is still mid-conversion, roughly one in twenty homes still on fuel oil against three in four on gas, we also find flues abandoned in place after a fuel switch, still open to the weather and to whatever finds its way in, connected to nothing anyone is using anymore.
Where the van goes in Collingswood Borough
- Knight Park
- Haddon Avenue corridor
- Collingswood Residential Historic District (Park Avenue, Collings Avenue, Browning Road, Haddon Avenue, Lakeview Drive)
- Newton Creek
- the PATCO Speedline station area
- Collingswood Commercial Historic District
Everything we do in Collingswood Borough
- Chimney sweepingThe camera goes down before any brush does
- Chimney inspectionTwo inspection levels, one written report
- Chimney repairCrowns, caps, flashing and liners — stopping the water
- Fireplace & stoveStubborn pilots, seized dampers, worn gaskets
- Dryer vent cleaningEvery foot of the lint run, cleared
- Air duct cleaningWith an honest no when it will not help
- Duct repair & replacementCrushed, split or dropped runs put right
What homeowners say on our Google listing
5.0
24 reviews on Google
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Excellent communication throughout the process. I received a text when the tech was on his way, and he arrived exactly when promised to do the sweep.
After it rained a lot, we saw wet spots on the wall next to the chimney. A broken crown and worn-out flashing were found by the team. They put in new lead boots instead of flashing, poured a new sloped crown, sealed all the joints, and…
Questions from Collingswood Borough
My house is from the 1920s and has one chimney with what looks like two flues. Is that normal?
It is common in Collingswood's older foursquares and bungalows. One interior stack often carries a flue for a fireplace and a separate one for the heating appliance. After a century of equipment changes, working out which flue serves what is usually the first step.
I rent out a unit in a Collingswood twin. Does that change what I need to do?
It can. A change of tenant in New Jersey requires its own fire-safety certificate covering smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, and if the building shares one chimney stack between two units, we check both flues, not just the one behind your unit's wall.
The house we're buying has an old chimney that isn't connected to anything. Is that a problem?
An abandoned flue is still open to the outside unless it has been properly capped, which means it can take on water and become a way in for animals. It's worth having it looked at even though nothing is currently venting through it.
Do you clean dryer vents in Collingswood's older houses and apartments?
Yes. Older Collingswood houses and small apartment buildings often have longer or more awkward dryer runs than newer construction, and we clean the full run from the machine to the outside termination, checking for lint buildup and kinks along the way.
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