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, on the National Register (#80002493) since September 17, 1980 and the New Jersey Register (#1587) since February 27, 1980. Roughly bounded by NJ 12, NJ 31, N. Main St, Shields Ave and Hopewell Ave, with buildings from 1756 on in Late Victorian, Greek Revival and Cottage styles
• Main Street, with the courthouse and the Union Hotel block (the hotel began as a stagecoach stop in 1814 and took its present form in 1877)
• Broad Street
• North Main Street
• Shields Avenue
• Hopewell Avenue
• ZIP 08822, which also covers Raritan Township’s Copper Hill, Croton, Reaville, Cloverhill, Klinesville, Larisons Corners, Voorhees Corner and Flemington Junction