West Seattle, WA
A chimney inspection in West Seattle puts the state of flue, liner, crown, cap and flashing into photos and a written report you can act on.
What we charge
$99 plus tax
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What we do
Sweeping, inspection, relining and masonry — one local crew for the whole chimney.
A chimney inspection in West Seattle puts the state of flue, liner, crown, cap and flashing into photos and a written report you can act on.
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A chimney sweep in West Seattle clears the season's soot and creosote from the flue and ends with photos of the liner once the brushes are done.
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Chimney repair in West Seattle fixes the stack as a structure: leaning or cracked brickwork, a failed crown, a damaged firebox, a rusted chase top.
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Chimney relining in West Seattle replaces a cracked or wrongly sized flue liner with a continuous, listed one matched to the appliance it serves.
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Chimney cap installation in West Seattle fits a stainless cap over the flue to keep rain, leaves, birds and animals out while smoke leaves freely.
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Gas fireplace service in West Seattle is the yearly cleaning and safety check of gas fireplaces, inserts and log sets, plus repairs when a unit won't light.
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Few places have had their chimneys counted as carefully as this peninsula. By HistoryLink's telling, a survey covered 188 blocks of West Seattle once the April 29, 1965 earthquake had passed, tallied 5,005 chimneys and marked 1,712 as damaged, or 34 percent. When Nisqually struck in 2001, Booth, Wells and Givler mapped roughly 60,000 chimneys across greater Seattle, found 1,556 visibly damaged, and reported that the damage clustered in West Seattle above all. A chimney that predates those events may carry an old patch, a rebuilt top or a crack nobody has looked at since. Our visit starts by identifying the system (masonry, factory-built or gas) and then documents each part.
Age varies sharply from one side of the peninsula to the other. Take the Census ZIP code area drawn around Gatewood, Fauntleroy and Seaview's southern shore: 30.1% of housing units date from 1939 or earlier; in the area covering most of the Delridge valley the share is 12.9%, and Seattle as a whole stands at 22.8%. Census areas of that kind ignore neighborhood lines and record nothing about fireplaces, so the figures tell us where to expect older construction, never what is inside a given house.
NFPA 211, quoted by CSIA, wants chimneys, fireplaces and vents looked at every twelve months for three things: soundness, deposits and clearances. The local record explains why soundness leads that list here. Work published through the USGS by Booth and colleagues describes unreinforced brick chimneys around Seattle as repeat casualties of the deep earthquakes that struck in 1949, in 1965 and again in 2001, and each time the heavy damage gathered in pockets on this peninsula.
The 2001 survey found that damage did not follow distance from the epicenter, soft ground, terrain or the way a slope faces; the hardest-hit pockets sat along strands of the Seattle fault zone that geologists had already mapped, and a block or two past the zone's edge the damage dropped away. In practice, a neighbor's intact chimney tells you little about yours. A crack above the roofline can be seen from a ladder. A cracked flue tile or a gap between tiles cannot, and those are the paths by which heat and carbon monoxide reach framing or rooms. That is the case for a camera when the history is unknown. We describe what we see; we do not assign a seismic rating to an address.
How it works
What burns, how often, what has been repaired, and the reason for calling, be it an odor, a ceiling stain or a pending sale.
Brick with clay tile, a metal factory-built unit and a gas appliance on its own vent each get a different checklist.
The hearth, then the roof; the camera travels the flue when the two ends disagree or a change of appliance is planned.
The photos and findings are yours to keep whether or not you hire us for anything further.
Licensed& insured Washington chimney contractor
10 neighborhoodsFrom Alki and Admiral south to Arbor Heights
$99 plus taxInspection, credited toward an approved quote
Every jobDocumented with before-and-after photos
If any of these sound familiar, book the $99 plus tax inspection — credited toward the work if you approve the quote:
By town
The 10 West Seattle communities we serve. Pick yours for local scheduling and the chimney issues we see there.
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.
Before you let anyone in
Every fact below is one you can check yourself before we ever set foot on your roof.
The on-site inspection is $99 plus tax, and it is credited toward the work when you approve the written quote. Booking online asks for no card.
You get the price in writing, for the work your chimney actually needs, and nothing starts until you have approved it.
Each item we inspect or repair is photographed before and after, so the condition of your chimney is on record.
Call (206) 589-5029 — a local West Seattle number, the same one on every page of this site.
Licensed& insured Washington chimney contractor
10 neighborhoodsFrom Alki and Admiral south to Arbor Heights
$99 plus taxInspection, credited toward an approved quote
Every jobDocumented with before-and-after photos
Serving Alki, Admiral, the Junction & all of West Seattle
$99 plus tax per chimney, whichever level the visit ends up requiring. Approve our written quote and that amount comes off the work; decline the quote and it does not.
Level 1 is a look at whatever can be reached on the chimney and the appliance, with no camera involved. Level 2 sends a video camera up the flue and adds a look at the accessible attic, crawlspace or basement spaces the chimney passes through. We step up to Level 2 for a sale, a change of appliance or fuel, or after an event such as an earthquake or a chimney fire.
If nobody has scanned the flue since, yes. According to USGS Open-File Report 03-211, FEMA inspected 30,000 houses after Nisqually and found chimney damage in one of every three. That is a regional figure, not a West Seattle one, but it shows how common the problem was, and damage inside a flue does not announce itself.
Yes. A clean report with dated photos is worth keeping: it becomes the baseline for the next visit and a useful document when the house changes hands.
Its vent does. The NFPA 211 passage that CSIA quotes names vents alongside chimneys and fireplaces. We check the vent path, the termination and the firebox, and measure carbon monoxide while the burner is lit.
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A chimney sweep in West Seattle clears the season's soot and creosote from the flue and ends with photos of the liner once the brushes are done.
Learn moreChimney relining in West Seattle replaces a cracked or wrongly sized flue liner with a continuous, listed one matched to the appliance it serves.
Learn moreChimney repair in West Seattle fixes the stack as a structure: leaning or cracked brickwork, a failed crown, a damaged firebox, a rusted chase top.
Learn more| Service | Price in West Seattle | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Inspection | $99 plus tax | Level 1 visual; Level 2 adds a full camera scan |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | Full flue swept, Level 1 inspection included |
| 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 West Seattle. 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.
Licensed local crews, a $99 on-site inspection credited toward repairs, and a written quote before any work. Book a real open slot on our calendar.
