Chimney sweep and repair in Essex County, NJ

What we find across Essex County

The four Essex County towns we serve share a climate and a permitting map, but not a housing type, and that split decides the job. Irvington and Newark are dominated by two-to-four-unit rowhouses, where a chimney chase often runs between two households, so a problem on one side can turn up on the other. East Orange runs to larger buildings — more than a quarter of its housing sits in structures of fifty units or more — so the venting is often a shared riser or a roof-terminated stack rather than one flue per family. Bloomfield breaks the pattern: it carries the oldest housing and the most single-family homes, with construction from before 1950 more common there than anywhere else we serve. Gas is the majority fuel everywhere, from the high fifties to the high seventies percent depending on the town, but fuel oil never disappears — lowest in Newark, highest in Bloomfield. Every town keeps its own construction office rather than routing through the county, and New Jersey’s one- and two-family code now runs on the 2024 IRC, the standard any chimney or liner work gets checked against.