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 Gloucester Township, NJ
Gloucester Township’s houses date mostly from the 1960s through the 1990s, and the hearth most of them were built with is a listed factory-built unit set into a framed chase, not a masonry fireplace. The recurring call is a chase cover rusted through or a crown cracked at the seam, and in the township’s townhouse rows one failed cover can wet more than one household’s flue at once.
5.0from 15 Google reviews
The short answer
Royal Chimney services chase covers, flashing, and listed chimney sections on Gloucester Township’s factory-built fireplaces, checks the shared chases running through its townhouse rows, and cleans dryer vents and air ducts across the township’s tract homes and mobile homes alike.
What we find on Gloucester Township jobs
Gloucester Township’s housing runs a decade newer than Cherry Hill Township’s, built mostly through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and its dominant hearth reflects that: a listed factory-built unit set into a framed and sided chase rather than a site-built masonry fireplace. The recurring finding is at the chase itself — a cover rusted through, flashing that has pulled away, or a crown seam cracked open — and in the township’s townhouse rows, which hold the largest count of attached houses among the six towns on this route, a single failed cover at the roofline can let water into more than one household’s flue before anyone notices. Gloucester Township also has the most mobile homes of the six towns, which run listed metal chimney systems with their own clearance and support requirements entirely apart from masonry work. And because the township’s build-out mostly postdates 1970, a house still heating with fuel oil or propane today is more often a later replacement than the original equipment, venting into a flue that may have been sized for something else.
Where the van goes in Gloucester Township
- Blackwood
- Glendora
- Grenloch
- Blenheim
- Chews Landing
- Erial
- Hilltop
- Lambs Terrace
- Little Gloucester
- Davisville
- Glen Oaks
- Lakeland
- Turkey Foot
- Nashs Mill
- Point Pleasant
Everything we do in Gloucester 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
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 Gloucester Township
What is a chase cover, and why does it fail so often?
The chase cover is the metal cap over the framed enclosure that houses a factory-built fireplace’s chimney sections, and it is the part most exposed to weather. Rust-through and corrosion are the most common findings in Gloucester Township, where this style of fireplace is the standard, and a failed cover lets water track down into the chase and the appliance below it.
I live in a townhouse row in Gloucester Township — can a neighbor’s chimney problem affect mine?
It can. Gloucester Township has the largest count of attached, single-family houses among the six towns we serve, and townhouse rows often share a roofline chase between units. A cover or crown that fails at one point on that shared structure can let water travel to a neighboring flue before it shows up as a problem inside your own house.
Do mobile homes need a different kind of chimney inspection?
Yes. Gloucester Township has the most mobile homes of the six towns we serve, and they use listed metal chimney systems with clearance and support requirements specific to that type of construction, not the masonry rules that apply to a site-built house. We check those systems on their own terms.
Our house looks fairly new, but the furnace runs on oil — is that unusual for Gloucester Township?
It is not unusual, but it is worth a look. Gloucester Township was mostly built after 1970, so an oil or propane appliance in a house from that era is often a later replacement rather than the original equipment, and the existing flue may have been sized for something else entirely.
Find us on Google
Find Royal Chimney Sweep Repair Cherry Hill on Google for our Gloucester Township service area and to reach us at (856) 606-0212.