Chimney, dryer vent and duct service in Franklin Township, NJ
Franklin is the largest township in Somerset County, and its main community is simply called Somerset. Fewer than half its homes are detached houses. The rest are townhouses and apartment or condo buildings, much of it built from 1980 on, with a small core of older homes along the Delaware and Raritan Canal.
In brief
We clean dryer vents and air ducts, replace chase covers, service factory-built fireplaces and sweep and repair masonry chimneys from Somerset and Franklin Park to Griggstown, East Millstone and Blackwells Mills.
A township of townhouses, condos and canal villages
With so much of Franklin built as townhouses, condos and apartments, the typical job here is a dryer vent or a duct system more often than a brick chimney. Dryer exhaust in these buildings tends to travel a long way, sometimes up to a roof or across a ceiling to a gable, and the code limit of 35 feet, reduced for every elbow, comes into play often. The newer houses with fireplaces almost always have a factory-built unit and a manufacturer's chimney system, so the weak points are the chase cover and the clearance to framing rather than the mortar. The exceptions are the canal and Millstone River villages, Griggstown, Blackwells Mills, East Millstone and the Franklin part of Kingston, which hold most of the township's 957 homes built before 1940. The Kingston Mill Historic District there includes structures from 1683, and those older stacks are often masonry without a liner.
Neighborhoods on our route in Franklin Township
- Blackwells Mills
- Clyde
- East Franklin
- East Millstone
- East Rocky Hill
- Franklin Center
- Franklin Park
- Griggstown
- Kingston
- Middlebush
- Pleasant Plains
- Six Mile Run
- Somerset
- Ten Mile Run
- Voorhees
- Weston
- Zarephath
Services we offer in Franklin Township
- 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 Franklin Township homeowners ask us
Our condo dryer vents through the roof. Can you clean it?
Yes. Roof-terminated dryer runs are common in Franklin's newer buildings. We clean from the dryer and, where the roof can be reached safely, from the top, and we check the roof cap screen, which tends to trap lint.
We heat with electricity. What venting do we still have?
Usually a dryer vent, bath and kitchen fans and possibly a fireplace or a gas water heater. The dryer vent is the one that needs regular cleaning.
Our house is in Griggstown and very old. Is the chimney lined?
Many older canal-village chimneys are not. A camera inspection shows whether there is a liner and what condition it is in, and we can fit one sized for your appliance.
Do you work in Somerset and Franklin Park?
Yes. Both are part of Franklin Township, and we cover the whole township.
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