Chimney sweep and repair in Flemington Borough, NJ

What we find on Flemington jobs

Flemington’s oldest problem is also its simplest: houses built before 1940 went up with no chimney clearance rule at all, so it is routine to find a joist or a header framed hard against masonry that was never meant to sit that close to heat. On a rebuild or a crown replacement visible from the street, expect an extra layer of review too, since a large share of the borough was placed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places decades ago, and exterior changes to a contributing building usually need sign-off beyond the ordinary construction permit. The fuel picture flips the usual Hunterdon pattern: this is a natural-gas town, and almost nobody here reports wood as a primary heat source, so the actual work is gas liner sizing and the orphaned water heater problem that shows up when a furnace gets replaced but the water heater is left venting alone into a flue sized for both appliances. In the borough’s larger buildings, long interior dryer runs routinely blow past the length a duct is meant to carry before lint has nowhere left to go.

Where the van goes in Flemington Borough

• Flemington Historic District — NRHP #80002493, listed 17 September 1980; NJ Register #1587, 27 February 1980; roughly bounded by NJ 12, NJ 31, N. Main St, Shields Ave and Hopewell Ave; buildings from 1756 onward in Late Victorian, Greek Revival and Cottage styles
• Main Street / the courthouse and Union Hotel block (hotel reached its present form 1877, originated as a stagecoach stop 1814)
• Broad Street
• North Main Street
• Shields Avenue
• Hopewell Avenue
• Note: ZIP 08822 also carries every Raritan Township locality — Copper Hill, Croton, Reaville, Cloverhill, Klinesville, Larisons Corners, Voorhees Corner, Flemington Junction