High Point, King County
Repairs to a High Point chimney begin at $425. We set the price from pictures taken on your roof, never from a phone description. On this hill the word chimney covers two different structures. One is the framed chase that carries a metal flue up the side or through the roof of a recent home. The other is the brick stack of an older house on the streets around the redevelopment. They fail in different ways and are fixed with different trades.
Typical investment
From $425
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for High Point 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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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.
If your home has a framed chase, the usual repairs are at the very top: a metal cover that has started to pond water, a storm collar whose sealant has let go, or a termination knocked out of line. If your chimney is brick, the list is the familiar one of loose bricks, open mortar joints and a cracked crown. We photograph the fault, explain it in plain terms and quote the specific repair.
The wartime apartments did not last into this century. By HistoryLink's account, they had become low-income housing by 1953 and were cut back to 1,100 units; the neighborhood's history page says the count had fallen to 716 by the late 1970s. All of that was cleared, and today's buildings were completed between 2003 and 2020.
The practical point for repairs: inside the redevelopment we do not expect seventy-year-old mortar. We expect the wear of a system in its first or second decade, which is mostly sealant, sheet metal and fasteners. Old-brick repairs belong to the houses outside the rebuilt blocks, and we quote those as masonry work.
Every chimney repair we do in High Point includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowRain finds any opening. Decades of readings at the weather station closest to the peninsula add up to 38.29 inches of precipitation for the average year, with November, December and January each near six inches. A gap at the top of a chase lets that water run down inside the framing where nobody sees it until a stain appears on a ceiling. On brick, the same water soaks open joints and works on them every time the night temperature dips below freezing.
We go to the roof, photograph the damaged part and trace where the water or movement started.
On paper you get the fix we propose, what it is made of and its cost, alongside the roof pictures.
Metal parts are replaced or refastened; brick is reset and joints are repacked with mortar suited to the existing work.
Where water was the complaint, we verify the path is closed before we leave the roof.
By Wikipedia's reckoning, West Seattle holds a third of all the green space and urban forest Seattle has. High Point adds its own canopy: the housing authority counts more than 100 mature trees kept through the rebuild. Shade is pleasant at street level and hard on anything that sits on a roof.
In this damp corner of the country roof moss cannot be avoided, says Oregon State University Extension, which names one lasting remedy: more sunlight, by trimming nearby trees. A chase cover or crown that never dries collects the same growth, and the growth holds water against seams and joints. When we repair a top, we clear what is growing on it and tell you if overhanging limbs are the cause.
What this work is quoted at for High Point homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in High Point | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Repair | From $425 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
| 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 Cap Installation | $235–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in High Point. 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.
High Point is a 120-acre hilltop community east of 35th Avenue SW, built as defense housing in 1942 and rebuilt from 2004, with homes completed between 2003 and 2020 across the redeveloped site.
High PointKing County, WA · 47.545, -122.372
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.
That depends on your association's or landlord's documents, which we cannot read for you. We can send our photos and quote to the owner, the manager or the board so the right party decides.
Some small jobs are exempt under the Seattle Residential Code, repointing among them. For anything structural, we put the permit question to SDCI ahead of scheduling.
No. Looking over one chimney costs $99 plus tax; accept the repair quote and the bill drops by that $99.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
