Split-level, colonial or lake cottage — the flue over your den has been eating Jersey winters since the Nixon administration. We sweep it, fix the brick, and give it to you straight before a single dollar changes hands.
Brush work, brick work and metal work ride the same truck. Nobody gets subbed in, and the guy on your roof is the same guy who answers for the job afterward.
Nightly fires from Thanksgiving to March pack a flue with creosote. We brush the whole run, pull and clean stove connectors, and bag every ounce of soot.
The free walkthrough covers the system top to bottom. When a sale or a doubt needs proof, the camera goes down the flue and the findings get typed.
Spalled faces, a wobbly top course, a stack the home inspector red-flagged — we rebuild from sound brick up and match what the rest of the house is wearing.
Every Jersey winter pries at the mortar a little more. We grind the failed joints clean and pack them with a mix tinted to disappear into the old work.
An open flue drinks every storm and hosts every squirrel in the neighborhood. Stainless caps and chase covers shut the door on both, for good.
That brown ring on the den ceiling started at the roofline. We find where the water actually gets in and fix that spot instead of caulking blind.
Half of Wayne switched from oil to gas and kept the old oversized flue. Condensation has been chewing the clay ever since — a sized liner stops it.
Cracked firebrick, crumbling refractory panels, a hearth that shifted — plus the backyard fireplaces and fire pits that stretch the season into October.
None of these fix themselves, and every one of them costs less this month than next spring. If something on this list sounds like your house, that's the phone call.
You will never wonder what happens next or what it costs. That's the whole system.
Tell us what the fireplace is doing. We slot you into a weekday window, 7 in the morning to 7 at night.
The tech works the system top to bottom and levels with you at the truck. Typed report with photos? $149, your call.
What's urgent, what can ride a season, and the price of each — on one sheet, before any work starts.
Cloths, sealed vacuums, debris hauled off. The workmanship carries our name and a written warranty.
October books solid every year in Wayne. Grab a weekday slot now and the fireplace is ready the first night the furnace can't keep up alone.
(862) 226-0859A season's worth of rooftops between Route 23 and the lakes — swept, sealed, capped and repointed.
The shop sits on Demarest Drive; the routes fan out across the lakes neighborhoods and the Route 23 corridor.
Town not on the board? Call (862) 226-0859 — a few extra minutes on Route 23 never stopped us.
Not a dime to look. The tech checks firebox, damper, flue, crown, cap and brick, then gives it to you straight in the driveway. Want it typed for a closing, a claim or the township file? The written report with photos is $149 — and it only gets made when you order it.
Every season, no exceptions, and heavy burners do well with a mid-winter look. Stove flues are narrower and hotter than open fireplaces, so they load up faster, and the connector elbow behind the stove is where most blockages start. We pull it and brush it as part of the job.
Because the old flue was sized for an oil burner and the new furnace exhaust runs cooler — it condenses on the way up and the acid eats the clay from the inside out. Same story for a water heater left venting alone into a big flue. A stainless liner sized to the appliance ends it, and in Wayne's 60s and 70s housing stock we install them constantly.
Roofers check shingles; the leak is usually the chimney itself — a split crown, tired flashing, a missing cap or brick gone spongy from decades of freeze-thaw. We trace where the water actually enters and repair that point, then put a breathable repellent on the masonry so it stops drinking.
Drag a key across one. If it carves out like sand, or you're seeing grit in the gutters and gaps behind the brick face, the joints are done. Repointed on time it's a modest, one-visit job; left alone, winter wedges the cracks wider until courses loosen.
Fully — and the certificate lands in your inbox before the ladder comes off the truck if you ask. Techs are background checked. Anyone who won't show you paperwork shouldn't be on your roof.
Figure an hour, a bit more with an insert. Cloths go down first, the opening is sealed, and a HEPA vacuum runs the entire time — the soot leaves in the machine, not on the rug.
Closings jump the line. Call (862) 226-0859, tell us the date, and we'll get the walkthrough done inside a couple of days — the typed $149 report usually follows within one business day. The shop runs weekdays 7 to 7; weekends the trucks stay parked, so build that into the timeline.
Weekdays from 7 in the morning until 7 at night, the phone reaches somebody who's held a brush, not a script.
Describe what the fireplace is doing — the smell, the stain, the smoke — and you'll know before hanging up whether it needs a visit and when the truck can be there.
(862) 226-0859 Tap and TalkWeekdays from 7 AM until 7 PM
Weekends the trucks stay parked