Delridge, King County
Our Delridge inspection price is fixed: $99 plus tax, counted chimney by chimney. The technician walks the outside of the stack, checks the roof joint where it can be reached safely, opens the firebox and damper, and runs a camera up the flue. You receive photos and a short written report. Approve a quote that grows out of those findings and the $99 is taken off its total. Without an approved quote, the fee simply covers the visit.
What we charge
$99 plus tax
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$99 plus tax, deducted when you approve the repair
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Pick what you're seeing at your Delridge home — we'll point you to the right fix.
What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Delridge homes.
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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Measurement of each flue tile, or of the whole crown for a multi-flue cap
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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.
The valley floor and the slopes above it carry a wide range of building dates. The Census estimates for the ZIP code area that follows the Delridge corridor (an area that also extends south beyond the city limit) put about one unit in eight before 1940, about one in five between 1940 and 1959, and close to a third in 2000 or later. A house from each of those periods vents its fire differently, so the camera run is where we stop guessing and start describing what is actually inside your flue.
Shannon & Wilson's landslide study for the city records 24 slides on the west-facing slope between 21st Avenue SW and Delridge Way SW, with trouble reported there as early as 1914. In January 1997 a slide damaged 23rd Avenue SW at SW Dakota Street, and the city answered with a buried soldier-pile wall 110 feet long. The same study found that 86 percent of the slides it could date fell between December and March.
That calendar is useful for chimney owners on the slope and in the valley below it. Ground movement after a soaked winter shows up as small things: mortar joints opening, a crown cracked through, a flue tile that has shifted against its neighbor. Booking the inspection in spring, after the wettest months, lets the camera catch what the winter moved before the next burning season.
The Southwest Seattle Historical Society adds the long view, naming landslide potential and periodic flooding among the reasons the valley was slow to fill with houses.
Every chimney inspection we do in Delridge includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowThe ground matters here as much as the weather. The Southwest Seattle Historical Society writes that landslide potential, periodic flooding, ravines and creeks long held back development in the valley. A masonry chimney is a heavy, rigid column; when the soil under one corner of a house settles, the stack tends to show it first, as a lean at the top, a crack that follows the mortar joints, or daylight appearing where brick meets siding. Those are details an inspection records with a level and a photo, not with a glance from the sidewalk.
We look at the stack from the ground and, where the roof allows, from up close: crown, cap, flashing, mortar and whether the column still stands straight.
Firebox walls, damper action, smoke chamber and any visible clearance to wood framing are checked from inside the room.
A camera travels the length of the flue so we can see liner joints, cracks, offsets and deposits that a flashlight never reaches.
You get the images and a plain summary: safe to use as is, use after a sweep, or a specific repair with its reason, ready for a quote.
HistoryLink's account of the Seattle Housing Authority records a 450-unit temporary project for defense workers built in Delridge in 1943 and turned into low-income housing by 1953. The historical society remembers that period as one when war-worker housing filled playfields and vacant lots across the valley.
The result is a neighborhood where a chimney's age cannot be read from the block. A postwar flue may have had a stove connected to it long after it was built, and nobody may have recorded whether a liner went in at the same time. A house finished after 2000 may vent a factory-built fireplace up a metal pipe hidden in a boxed chase. The inspection report states which you have and what condition it is in.
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 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 |
| Chimney Cap Installation | $235–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
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
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.
Two. Every flue gets its own camera run, so a fireplace plus a separate stove or furnace vent counts as a pair, and we say so before starting.
Yes. Metal chimneys and prefabricated fireboxes are checked against what the manufacturer allows, which is not the same list as for brick and tile.
It can add time for access, and it makes the plumb check worth more. A chimney that has shifted with the ground needs a closer look at its connection to the house.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
