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 Clifton, NJ
Clifton’s housing didn’t wait for the postwar era to fill in: close to seven in ten homes here were standing before 1960, from Botany Village’s older streets out to the ranches near Allwood. Many of those houses started out heating with oil or coal, and the same masonry flue built for that furnace is often still the one venting a smaller gas appliance today — a mismatch worth having checked, not assumed.
5.0from 15 Google reviews
The short answer
Royal Chimney sweeps, inspects, and repairs chimneys throughout Clifton, and cleans air ducts and dryer vents in the same houses. Because Clifton sits at the far end of the drive from Cherry Hill, visits here are booked in advance, not added on short notice.
What we find on Clifton jobs
Clifton splits fairly evenly between single-family houses and small multi-family buildings, and its chimney problems split along the same line. In the single-family houses that make up just over half of Clifton’s housing, the recurring issue is a flue sized decades ago for an oil or coal furnace, now venting a much smaller gas appliance — which cools the flue gas before it clears the chimney and leaves condensate working into the mortar from the inside. In Clifton’s two- and three-family houses, the same flue is frequently doing double duty, carrying exhaust from more than one unit, so a crack or blockage becomes a shared problem rather than one household’s alone. Clifton also sits along the Garret Mountain basalt ridge that runs into Paterson, meaning some foundations here bear on shallow rock rather than deep glacial till — worth knowing before assuming a settled chimney is simply old.
Where the van goes in Clifton
- Botany Village
- Athenia
- Richfield
- Delawanna
- Allwood
- Montclair Heights
Everything we do in Clifton
- 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 Clifton
Does Royal Chimney serve Clifton, NJ?
Yes. We sweep, inspect, and repair chimneys throughout Clifton, and clean air ducts and dryer vents in the same houses. Because Clifton is on the far side of the state from our Cherry Hill base, visits here are scheduled in advance rather than fit in on short notice.
Why would a Clifton chimney need work if the furnace already runs on gas?
Because the chimney is usually older than the furnace. A flue built decades ago for an oil or coal appliance was sized for that fuel’s exhaust, not for a smaller modern gas unit, and an oversized flue can let flue gas cool and condense before it clears the top.
My Clifton house is a two-family — does that change the chimney inspection?
It can. In a two- or three-family Clifton house, one chimney sometimes vents more than one unit, so a blocked or damaged flue is not only the top-floor tenant’s problem or only the ground floor’s — an inspection needs to account for every appliance tied into it.
Do you clean dryer vents in Clifton apartments as well as houses?
Yes. Clifton has a meaningful share of two-, three-, and larger multi-unit buildings, and dryer duct work there follows the same appointment scheduling as chimney sweeping — planned ahead rather than a walk-in visit.
Find us on Google
Royal Chimney’s Google Business listing has the map, hours, and phone number for scheduling chimney or duct work anywhere in Clifton.