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 New Brunswick, NJ
New Brunswick runs differently than the rest of Middlesex County. It’s a dense city built around Rutgers and two hospital campuses, and most of what we work on is rental — an apartment building, a rowhouse split into units, a landlord’s whole portfolio. A third of the city heats with electricity alone, so plenty of fireplaces here are ornamental, sealed for years, and easy to forget until an inspection turns one up.
5.0from 15 Google reviews
The short answer
Royal Chimney serves New Brunswick with sweeping, inspection and repair for the buildings that still burn something, plus dryer vent cleaning for the many that don’t. Landlords, property managers and homeowners all get the same written findings.
What we find on New Brunswick jobs
The defining fact about New Brunswick housing is that a third of it runs on electric heat with no furnace flue at all, which means the chimney a homeowner points to is often a fireplace only — unused for a decade, capped or not, and never inspected because nobody thought of it as part of the heating system. In the older blocks near downtown and the Rutgers campus, roughly a quarter of the housing predates 1939, packed into rowhouses and small multi-family conversions where one building can hold several units and, sometimes, one flue serving more than one of them. On rental property specifically, the work usually has a second purpose beyond the chimney itself: a landlord needs a written record before renewing insurance or turning over a unit, and a dryer vent that’s been fighting a long run through a shared wall is a fire-code question as much as a comfort one.
Where the van goes in New Brunswick
- Fifth Ward
- Sixth Ward
- Edgebrook
- Lincoln Gardens
- Douglass
Everything we do in New Brunswick
- 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 New Brunswick
Do you work on rental properties in New Brunswick, or only owner-occupied homes?
Both, and a large share of what we see in New Brunswick is rental. We can write findings addressed to a landlord or property manager, walk a tenant through what a report means, or hand a homeowner the same inspection anyone else gets — the visit itself doesn’t change based on who holds the deed.
My apartment heats with electricity — why would I need a chimney inspection?
If the building still has a fireplace, it’s worth a look even with no furnace tied to it. An unused flue can still let rain, animals or debris in through an open or damaged cap, and that’s a maintenance issue whether or not anyone ever lights a fire in it.
Do you serve the older buildings near downtown and the Rutgers campus?
Yes — that’s a meaningful part of the New Brunswick work. Buildings from before 1940 and the multi-family conversions around them tend to need a closer look at shared flues and older masonry than a newer building would, and we schedule for that difference rather than treating every stop the same.
How soon can you get to a New Brunswick job?
We schedule New Brunswick the same as the rest of Middlesex County — as a planned visit, not a same-day promise. Call the number on this page and we’ll find the appointment that fits, whether it’s one unit or several in the same building.
Find us on Google
See our current hours, service area and directions on the Google Business listing, or call the number above to schedule a New Brunswick visit.