Arbor Heights, King County
A stainless steel chimney cap in Arbor Heights costs $235 to $850 fitted. Price climbs with crown size and flue count: a lone round tile takes a stock model, whereas a broad crown carrying a furnace flue beside the fireplace one may want a hood made to measure. The cap keeps rain out of the flue, stops birds and squirrels from nesting in it, and its mesh catches embers before they reach the roof or the trees. We measure the flue tops, then fit and fasten the cap so a winter gust cannot lift it.
Typical investment
$235–$850
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Arbor Heights homes.
Level 1 examination of everything reachable, with a Level 2 camera pass when the reachable parts leave a question open
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Full-height brushing of the flue with a head sized to its shape and material
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Assessment of the stack from roofline to crown, with a photo of each defect
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Camera survey and measurement of the existing flue before anything is ordered
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Burner, pilot assembly and firebox cleaned; logs or media put back in the layout the manual shows
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Joints cut back to firm mortar and repointed (tuckpointing) to match the existing profile
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Arbor Heights has two patches of public woodland on its edges, both run by Seattle Parks: the 7.5-acre Arroyos Natural Area off SW Arroyo Drive, left undeveloped, and Seola Park on Seola Beach Drive SW, a wooded ravine with a grove of madronas. The city's windstorm analysis ranks West Seattle among Seattle's most heavily forested areas. More trees mean more leaves, twigs and nesting animals, and an uncapped flue collects all three.
Of the 10,617 occupied homes in the Census ZIP area around Arbor Heights, 849 rely chiefly on fuel oil, 8.0 percent, a peninsula high; electricity heats 53.0 percent and gas 37.4 percent. Very few households call wood their main heat. The area runs past the city limit, so these numbers describe the neighborhood and its surroundings together.
The practical point is that plenty of chimneys here vent a furnace that runs daily through the cold months, whether or not a fireplace is lit. That flue needs a cap as much as the fireplace one. When a cap carries a spark arrestor, Seattle's residential code governs the mesh. Its holes must stop a ball of 1/2 inch yet admit one of 3/8 inch, the wire has to hold up as well as 24-gage stainless would, and the open area through the screen must total four or more times that of the flue outlet. We fit within those numbers, so embers stay in while exhaust still leaves easily.
Every chimney cap installation we do in Arbor Heights includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowGusty months, by WeatherSpark's count for Seattle, begin in mid-October and last into late April, and the prevailing direction then is southerly. A loose cap rattles, then shifts, then ends up in the gutter. A cap with clogged mesh, on the other hand, chokes the draft and pushes smoke back into the room. Both problems show up on our visits, and both are cheaper to prevent than to fix after the roof or the flue has taken water.
We record the outside size of every flue tile or liner on the crown, and the crown itself if a full-width hood makes more sense.
Single-flue caps, multi-flue hoods and taller models for wind-prone spots each have their price; you choose with the numbers in front of you.
Any nest or debris is pulled from the flue top first, then the cap is set square and fixed in place.
Where a fireplace or stove is in use, a small test fire shows us the smoke climbing out past the new hood.
What this work is quoted at for Arbor Heights homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Arbor Heights | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Cap Installation | $235–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | Full flue swept, Level 1 inspection included |
| Chimney Inspection | $99 plus tax | Level 1 visual; Level 2 adds a full camera scan |
| Chimney Relining | From $1,900 | Full-length stainless liner, sized to the appliance |
| Chimney Repair | From $425 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Arbor Heights. The exact figure is set on site after a $99 inspection (credited toward the job if you go ahead), and you approve it before any work starts.
Arbor Heights is the southernmost part of West Seattle, south of SW Roxbury Street, annexed to Seattle in 1954, with mostly detached houses, about half of those in its ZIP code area built between 1940 and 1969. We work every part of it — Arroyo Heights, Seola Beach included.
Arbor HeightsKing County, WA · 47.509, -122.378
Before and after
Illustrations of what each repair changes on a typical chimney — not photos of a specific job.
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Four steps, each one on paper — so you always know what happens next.
Choose a genuine opening on the crew's calendar. Confirmation is immediate.
Liner, crown, cap, flashing and masonry examined in order — each finding photographed.
One document, plain numbers, covering only the work your chimney genuinely needs.
The repair is completed, then handed over with before-and-after photos of every item.
Fitted, $235 to $850. Count your flues and look at the crown: one small opening keeps you toward $235, and a made-to-measure hood over several pushes toward $850.
Yes. Any open flue takes in rain and debris, whatever burns below it. We cap every flue on the crown unless one is sealed off.
We show you before fitting anything. If a closer look is warranted, an inspection costs $99 plus tax, and approving the repair quote that follows removes that $99 from your total.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
