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 Franklin Township, NJ
Franklin Township, home to the Somerset section as well as the older canal villages, is the most structurally mixed town we cover. Less than half its housing is a detached house, the rest split between townhouses and multi-family buildings, so a Franklin visit is as likely to mean a shared roofline and a long dryer run as a stand-alone chimney.
5.0from 24 Google reviews
The short answer
We inspect and clean chimneys, chase covers and dryer/duct systems across Franklin’s mix of detached houses, townhouses and apartment buildings, verify oil and LP flues at conversion, and handle the genuine 18th- and 19th-century masonry that survives in the old canal villages.
What we find on Franklin Township jobs
Franklin is the one town in the county where the housing mix itself is the story. Less than half its units are a detached house, with roughly a fifth attached and a third multi-family, so a Franklin call is as likely to mean a chase cover on a townhouse or a shared vent stack as a stand-alone chimney. That structure type drives the dryer work too: long, roof-terminated runs measured against the same length limit everywhere, minus five feet per 90-degree elbow, tested for real in a building where the duct runs through several floors. Franklin also has the highest share of electric-heated homes of any town we cover, which means a real slice of the township has no heating flue at all, and the correct lead offer there is duct and dryer-vent cleaning, not a chimney sweep. What oil and LP heat remains, and there’s a meaningful amount of both, sits in the same conversion pattern as the rest of the county. The genuine old masonry survives only in canal villages like Griggstown, Blackwells Mills and East Millstone, predating almost everything else standing in the township.
Where the van goes in Franklin Township
- Somerset
- Franklin Park
- East Franklin
- Middlebush
- Six Mile Run
- Ten Mile Run
- Griggstown
- Blackwells Mills
- East Millstone
- Weston
- Franklin Center
- Pleasant Plains
- East Rocky Hill
- Clyde
- Kingston (partial)
- Voorhees
- Zarephath
Everything we do in Franklin Township
- 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 Franklin Township
We’re in one of the apartment buildings near Somerset. Do you work on multi-family chimneys?
Yes. Over a third of Franklin’s housing is multi-family, and shared or stacked vent systems are routine work here, not an exception. Access usually gets arranged through the building or the management office rather than a single homeowner, but the inspection and cleaning itself work the same way.
Our dryer vent runs a long way to the roof. Is that a problem in our building?
It can be. Code caps how long a dryer duct run can be, and that limit shrinks for every 90-degree elbow along the way, so a run that climbs through several floors to a roof termination is exactly the kind of installation worth measuring against the limit rather than assuming it’s fine.
We heat with electric baseboard and don’t use a fireplace. Is there anything you’d do at our house?
Likely yes, just not chimney work. Franklin has the highest share of electric-heated homes of any town we cover, and a house like that usually still has dryer venting and, in some cases, duct systems that benefit from cleaning even with no heating flue in the picture.
Our house is in Griggstown and it’s an older stone building. Does that change things?
It does. Griggstown, along with Blackwells Mills and East Millstone, holds the last of Franklin’s genuinely old masonry, built well before the modern subdivisions that make up most of the township. That kind of stack gets inspected as historic masonry, not as the framed chase common everywhere else in Franklin.
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