Chimney sweep and repair in Bloomfield, NJ

What we find on Bloomfield jobs

Bloomfield’s housing is the oldest we work with in this county — just over half the stock predates 1950, and nearly three-quarters predates 1970. That’s original brick behind most of these walls, laid before today’s clearance and lining rules existed, and it’s also the town with the highest fuel-oil share we cover here, at five percent of households. An oil-fired system running through decades-old masonry produces cooler, wetter exhaust than a lot of these flues were rebuilt to expect, and that moisture condenses on the way up and works on the mortar joints from the inside, long before a crack shows on the face of the stack. Bloomfield is also the most single-family town of the four we serve — nearly forty-five percent detached or attached houses, more than in Newark, East Orange or Irvington. Bloomfield Green and East Bloomfield are both federally listed historic districts, concentrating Greek Revival, Late Victorian and Gothic Revival construction from the 1800s, where a chimney rebuilt above the roofline counts as exterior work and is worth checking against the district’s rules before it starts.

Where the van goes in Bloomfield

• Watsessing
• Brookdale
• Oak View
• Brookside
• Bloomfield Center
• Broughton Avenue
• North of the Green