Newark earned its nickname one kiln at a time, and the chimneys on its Victorians, rowhouses and three-families are showing their century. Our crew cleans, repoints and relines them from a shop on Oraton Street — with the trucks out weekdays, seven to seven.
Cleaning crews that can lay brick, masons who understand draft — in a city of shared flues and boiler stacks, you want both skills on the same truck.
Creosote in the fireplace flue, scale in the boiler run — both come out with full-length brushing and sealed vacuum recovery, leaving the passage clear and the draft honest.
The assessment costs nothing and hides nothing: what's sound, what's failing, what can wait. Owners who need it on paper — closings, claims, tenant files — order the $149 written record.
When a century-old stack is past patching, we take it down to sound masonry and rebuild it true — matched brick, reinforced crown, and venting that finally meets today's code.
Newark brick is famously durable; its mortar is not. We grind failing joints to solid depth, repack them with a matched mix, and swap out the spalled units before water claims the wall.
An uncapped Newark flue collects rain, leaves, pigeons and the occasional squirrel family. Stainless caps and top-mounted dampers seal the opening without starving the draft.
Chimney leaks travel — the stain in the second-floor bedroom often starts at a flashing seam ten feet away. We track the water to its entry, then fix the entry, not the symptom.
Half this city's chimneys vent heating equipment through passages older than the equipment's grandparents. Insulated stainless liners bring fireplace and boiler runs up to code, sized right.
Painted-shut Victorians, cracked fireboxes, hearths that haven't glowed since the seventies — we bring them back to working order and make sure the flue upstairs deserves the fire below.
Every expensive chimney failure in this city announced itself first. These are the announcements.
Owners and landlords get the same deal: see everything, approve everything, pay for exactly what was agreed.
Weekdays seven to seven, someone who works the trucks answers. Homeowner or property manager — describe the building and the symptom.
Every flue and the full exterior get assessed, and the findings reviewed with you on site. Paper version for files & closings: $149.
Anything needing work is itemized in writing with safety items flagged first. The quote you approve is the invoice you get.
Work done, debris hauled, floors spotless, warranty documented. Tenants barely know we came through.
By the first cold week the calendar fills with emergencies. Book the free assessment while it's still a choice, not a crisis — the call takes ten minutes.
(973) 210-4701Cleanings, cap sets, rebuilds and revived hearths from around the county.
Every Newark ward daily, with regular runs through Essex and western Hudson County.
Your town missing? (973) 210-4701 settles it in thirty seconds.
Nothing, once you read it: the technician's assessment and the on-site walkthrough of findings cost zero, full stop. The $149 applies only to compiling those findings into a written record with photographs — the document closings, insurance claims and landlord files run on. Checking your own chimney? Skip the paper and pay nothing. Selling the building or filing a claim? The record earns its fee.
Monday through Friday the phones and trucks run from seven in the morning until seven at night — twelve working hours, five days. Weekends the shop stays dark; urgent weekend messages get Monday's first slot. Active fire or suspected carbon monoxide is a 911 matter before it's a contractor matter, any day of the week.
They're our bread and butter. A classic Newark three-family can run four flues up one stack — two boilers, a water heater and a fireplace, each needing its own path. We trace and service them individually, and give owners per-flue findings so nothing gets billed by guesswork.
Especially then. Boiler flues fail silently — no smoke smell, no drama, just scale and debris narrowing the passage until exhaust starts wandering into the basement. An annual check on any heating flue is cheap insurance against the one gas you can't smell, and here the check itself is free.
You mostly don't; the wall decides. Sandy joints with sound brick means repointing wins, at a small fraction of rebuild money. Water already behind the faces, brick spalling in sheets — the decision has been made for you. The free assessment tells you which side of the line your stack stands on, with no incentive for us to exaggerate: we do both jobs either way.
Before the visit, by email, naming the entity you specify — liability and workers' comp both. Multi-family owners use the $149 written record for their compliance files; that's precisely the use it was designed for.
Minimal by design. Each opening gets sealed under containment before brushing, floor protection runs through common areas, and the filtered vacuum keeps soot inside the machine. A single flue takes about an hour; a full three-family morning. We coordinate access so tenants get one clear notice, not four.
During working hours, call (973) 210-4701 and open with the word urgent — falling brick, indoor smoke and fume complaints reshuffle the day's board. Nights and weekends, leave the same message for the first Monday truck. And if there's live fire or anyone feels sick from possible carbon monoxide, get people out and dial 911 before you dial us.
Homeowner with one flue or manager with forty — the number is the same and the person answering knows the difference.
Single-family, three-family or a small portfolio — the person on the line has serviced all of them and won't need a script to help you.
(973) 210-4701 Ring Oraton StreetMonday to Friday, 7 in the morning – 7 at night
Weekends the shop is closed