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 Parsippany, NJ
Parsippany-Troy Hills went up mostly in one long stretch through the 1960s, split-levels and ranches lining curved streets across the township, and that’s still most of what we see: a factory-built metal chimney or a single brick flue pushing sixty years old, either one due for a real look. Mount Tabor is the exception, a pocket of small Victorian cottages built for a parlor stove, not a furnace.
5.0from 24 Google reviews
The short answer
In Parsippany-Troy Hills we sweep and inspect both factory-built and masonry chimneys, reline and repair flues on homes decades past their original installation, and handle air duct and dryer vent cleaning for the township’s houses, garden apartments, and larger buildings alike.
What we find on Parsippany jobs
Most Parsippany-Troy Hills chimneys are working through their fifties and sixties, not their hundreds. The township’s biggest single decade of construction is the 1960s, and put together, six in ten homes here went up between 1950 and 1979, split-level and ranch construction that mostly used factory-built metal chimneys, not site-built masonry. A metal chimney is a listed, labeled assembly, and after fifty or sixty years the failure is usually at the joints and the chase, not the mortar: a corroded chase cover, a failed storm collar, or water finding its way down the outside of the pipe instead of staying inside. Where the flue is brick, expect the same freeze-thaw wear any masonry stack takes at that age. The gas-heat majority here, roughly 74 percent of households, still leaves a real minority on fuel oil and a sizable slice on electric heat, where a fireplace or wood insert used only on cold nights won’t show up in any heating count. And in the apartment and garden-complex buildings that make up four in ten units, the job is dryer-vent and duct runs serving a shared roofline, not one household’s flue.
Where the van goes in Parsippany
- Lake Hiawatha
- Mount Tabor
- Powder Mill
- Troy Hills
- Lake Parsippany
- Rainbow Lakes
Everything we do in Parsippany
- 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 Parsippany
We have a split-level from the 1960s with a metal chimney. Is that different from a brick one?
Yes. A factory-built metal chimney is a listed assembly with its own installation rules, not a masonry structure, so what goes wrong is different too: chase cover corrosion, a failed storm collar, or gaps at the roof line, rather than mortar loss. Most of Parsippany-Troy Hills’ 1960s and 1970s housing uses this type, so we check for it first.
Do you work on the older cottages in Mount Tabor?
Yes. Mount Tabor’s Victorian cottages predate the township’s mid-century building boom and were built for a parlor stove or an open fireplace, not a modern furnace, so the flues are smaller and older. Because the village is listed on the National Register, exterior chimney work there may need review beyond a standard permit, worth confirming first.
I heat with electricity but still use my fireplace on cold nights. Does that count as heating fuel?
No, and that’s worth knowing: census figures for the township count only a home’s primary heating fuel, so an electric-heated house with a wood-burning fireplace or insert used occasionally shows up as all-electric with no wood use recorded at all. The fireplace still needs the same inspection and sweeping as any other.
I live in a larger apartment building. Do you handle that, or just single houses?
Both. A meaningful share of Parsippany-Troy Hills housing sits in buildings of 20, 50, or more units, and those buildings need dryer-vent and duct service across shared runs, not a single flue. We work with building management as well as individual homeowners.
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