The technician showed me exactly what he was doing, step by step, while he worked. It was really interesting to look inside the flue with his tablet camera. Very open service!
Chimney sweep and repair in Collingswood Borough, NJ
Collingswood grew up around the Haddon Avenue trolley line a century ago, and roughly half its houses still carry the single masonry stack that generation of builders favored — one chimney, several flues, serving whatever combination of stove, furnace, and fireplace a hundred years of owners have connected to it. Working out which flue does what is often the first job on the ticket.
5.0from 15 Google reviews
The short answer
Royal Chimney traces multi-flue masonry stacks in Collingswood Borough’s Foursquares and bungalows, checks the party-wall chimneys shared by the borough’s twins and duplexes, and handles the inspections that come with the borough’s frequent rental turnover.
What we find on Collingswood Borough jobs
Collingswood Borough’s defining feature is age: nearly half its houses predate 1940, built during the trolley-line boom in the Foursquare, Dutch Colonial Revival, and bungalow styles that favored one masonry stack carrying several flues at once. A hundred years of owners connecting and disconnecting stoves, furnaces, and fireplaces to that single stack means the first real job is often figuring out which flue serves what, since old records rarely say. The borough’s two-family houses and attached twins add a second pattern: one chimney straddling a party wall, serving two households whose only sign of a problem might be a smell or stain that seems to come from nowhere. Collingswood Borough is also mid-conversion on fuel — most households are on gas now, but a meaningful share still burns oil through flues built generations ago — and it has the highest renter share of the six towns, which means chimney and CO alarm checks tied to occupancy changes happen here more often than anywhere else on the route.
Where the van goes in Collingswood Borough
- Knight Park
- Haddon Avenue corridor
- Collingswood Residential Historic District (Park Avenue, Collings Avenue, Browning Road, Haddon Avenue, Lakeview Drive)
- Newton Creek
- the PATCO Speedline station area
- Collingswood Commercial Historic District
Everything we do in Collingswood Borough
- 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
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15 reviews on Google
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I have an ancient farm home with an unlined brick chimney. They cleaned the soot away with soft brushing without disturbing any of the ancient interior mortar joints.
The tech pointed out a small fracture in our firebrick that I would have overlooked entirely. Patched it up there for a very fair amount.
Questions from Collingswood Borough
My house has one chimney with more than one flue inside it — is that normal for Collingswood Borough?
Very common. Houses built here during the trolley-suburb boom of the 1910s and 20s often ran a stove, a furnace, and a fireplace all off flues in the same masonry stack. Figuring out which flue connects to which appliance is routine work in this borough, and it matters before any repair or relining decision is made.
I live in a twin — could a chimney problem start on my neighbor’s side?
Yes, if the two houses share a single stack, which many of Collingswood Borough’s twins and duplexes do. A blocked flue or a cracked liner on one side can show up as a smell, a stain, or even smoke on the other, since the two flues sit in the same masonry the whole way up.
I just moved into a rental — does the chimney need to be checked before I move in?
It depends on the property, but occupancy changes are one of the more common reasons a chimney and CO alarm inspection happens in Collingswood Borough, which has the highest renter share of the six towns we serve. If you are unsure whether yours has been done, it is worth asking your landlord or having us take a look.
Our house still has an old, unused fireplace flue — does it need attention even if we never use it?
Yes. An unused flue in an older Collingswood Borough house can still let water and animals in from the top, and a cap or crown that has failed will not announce itself until there is already damage inside the chimney or the wall around it. It is worth a look even on a flue you never light.
Find us on Google
Find Royal Chimney Sweep Repair Cherry Hill on Google for our Collingswood Borough service area and to reach us directly at (856) 606-0212.