Delridge, King County
Putting a stainless cap on a Delridge chimney costs between $235 and $850, installed. One flue, one stock-size stainless hood: that job stays close to $235. Several flues under one cover, a custom-measured cap that spans the whole crown, or a stack we can only reach with extra ladder work brings the price up. Every cap we fit has a mesh screen and a hood wide enough to keep vertical rain off the flue opening, and it is fastened so a winter gust will not lift it off.
Typical investment
$235–$850
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Delridge 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.
An uncovered flue mouth invites everything overhead: rain drops straight down it, leaves and needles collect at the damper, and birds or raccoons find a dry, sheltered shaft. Wikipedia credits this peninsula with a full third of Seattle's parkland and city forest, a big piece of it in the West Duwamish Greenbelt; the city's windstorm study likewise ranks West Seattle high for tree cover. Tall trees near a roof put more litter on it each fall, and a cap screen is what keeps that litter out of the flue.
WeatherSpark's Seattle profile ranks November first for rain, roughly seven and a half inches falling on some 17 separate wet days, and puts the wetter half of the year between October 10 and April 30. The Western Regional Climate Center adds the direction: during the wet season the prevailing winds in the Puget Sound lowlands come from the south and southwest, usually under 10 miles an hour.
Moderate wind and steady rain are the conditions in which an open flue takes on the most water, because the drops fall almost vertically into the opening. In a valley where the ground already stays damp, water inside the chimney has little chance to dry before the next storm. A hooded cap sheds that rain past the flue mouth, and the crown below it stays drier for it.
Every chimney cap installation we do in Delridge includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowThe cap also has to fit what is under it. A masonry flue takes a cap clamped to the tile or a cover that sits on the crown. A factory-built metal chimney needs the termination its manufacturer lists, and a generic cap can change how it drafts or void its listing. Where a newer house vents its fireplace through a metal pipe inside a framed chase, and there the chase cover and the cap work together. We look before we order, never ordering from a photo alone.
We climb to the flue, measure each opening and note whether the chimney is masonry or a listed metal system.
A single-flue cap, a multi-flue cover or the manufacturer's listed termination, with mesh sized to stop animals without choking draft.
The cap is fastened to tile, crown or pipe so wind cannot shift it, and anything that has fallen in is cleared from the damper.
Afterward you receive a photo of the cap in place plus a note on anything else we saw up there, such as a cracked crown.
For the postal-code tabulation covering Delridge, the Census dates close to a third of homes as built in 2000 or later, and about one in eight before 1940. Spread like that, two neighboring roofs can carry very different tops, perhaps clay tile set in a brick crown on one and a round metal pipe through a chase cover on the other.
Seattle's residential code governs the height of the top in either case. Under R1003.9 the top must clear the roof penetration's high side by three feet or more, and must also stand two feet or more over any portion of the house lying closer than ten feet. A cap does not change that requirement, but when we are up there we note whether the existing stack meets it.
What this work is quoted at for Delridge homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Delridge | 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 Delridge. 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.
Delridge is a valley neighborhood between the two ridges of West Seattle, on Longfellow Creek, with homes of mixed ages, about a fifth of those in its ZIP code area from the 1940s and 1950s and nearly a third built since 2000. We work every part of it — Pigeon Point, Youngstown, Cottage Grove, Puget Ridge, Riverview included.
DelridgeKing County, WA · 47.547, -122.362
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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.
Seattle's residential code fixes the minimum height of a chimney top over the roof, and a listed metal chimney keeps its listed termination. A cap on a masonry flue is a protective choice we recommend, not a rule we cite.
Not if it fits the flue. Draft suffers when the screen gets plugged by soot or leaf matter, which is why we check the screen at every sweep.
Not until it is out. Once we have confirmed the shaft is vacant, the screen goes on, never with an occupant still below it.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
