Chimney sweeping and liner checks in Edison, NJ
Edison grew mostly between 1950 and 1989, when 71 percent of its homes were built, and it is far more of a single-family town than the cities around it. Gas now heats 83 percent of households, and many of those homes have had more than one heating system since they were built.
In brief
We sweep and inspect chimneys, check liners after fuel conversions, service factory-built fireplaces and clean dryer vents and air ducts from Menlo Park, Stelton and Clara Barton to Oak Tree, North Edison and Bonhamtown.
Postwar houses on their second or third furnace
Most Edison houses come from four decades of suburban building, from the 1950s through the 1980s, and many have a single chimney, brick or factory-built, serving the furnace, the fireplace or both. With gas now the fuel in more than eight homes in ten, many of those flues are venting something different from what they started with. When a smaller or more efficient gas appliance takes the place of an older one, the flue can end up too large and too cold, and moisture collects inside. We check the liner against the appliance it serves now. About three in ten Edison homes are in buildings of five or more units, many of them apartment complexes, where the venting work is mostly dryers and ducts.
Neighborhoods on our route in Edison
- Bonhamtown
- Clara Barton
- Menlo Park
- North Edison
- Oak Tree
- Stelton
Services we offer in Edison
- Chimney sweepingCamera first, brushes second
- Chimney inspectionLevel 1 or Level 2, written up for you
- Chimney repairCrowns, caps, flashing and liners where water gets in
- Fireplaces & stovesPilots, dampers and door gaskets
- Dryer vent cleaningThe full run cleaned, dryer to outside hood
- Air duct cleaningIf cleaning will not help, we say so
- Duct repair & replacementCrushed, torn or sagging runs fixed
Reviews from our Google listing
A selection of our 5-star reviews on Google.
Polishing the ceramic glass and unblocking the air-wash intake passages turned our heavily used woodstove back into an effective heat source.
Static-cling barriers locked the aperture tight, so that high soot agitation inside the top flue never wandered into the next-door kitchen.
The entire sweep was completed with engineering precision and purity never before witnessed from meticulous pre-setup to HD inside camera feature.
What Edison homeowners ask us
We replaced our furnace last year. Should the chimney have been checked?
The installer should have verified the flue for the new appliance. If you are not sure that happened, an inspection shows whether the liner suits the furnace you have now.
Our 1960s house has a brick chimney and a gas boiler. What could go wrong?
If the flue is larger than the boiler needs, the exhaust cools and condenses inside it, which wears the mortar and the tile. A camera inspection shows the condition and whether a liner would help.
Do you clean dryer vents in Edison apartment complexes?
Yes. We clean each run from the dryer to the outside and can work through a whole building with the property manager.
We still heat with oil. How often should the flue be cleaned?
Inspect it every year and expect it to need cleaning at most visits, since oil scale keeps building up in the flue.
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