Whole-Flue Sweeping
Brush and rod, top of the tile to the smoke shelf, until soot stops coming. The dirty part rides out inside a sealed canister.
- Brush type matched to the liner material
- Shelf and damper done by hand
- Hearth sheeted, floors clothed
Menlo Park • Clara Barton • Oak Tree • North Edison
This Town Gave the World Light. We Mind the Older Kind.
Before the bulb, every Edison household ran on a flame and a flue — and thousands of local chimneys still do. Our crew sweeps, repoints and rebuilds them across Middlesex County, with a phone that has no closing time.
- Insured & vetted crew
- Line live 168 hours a week
- Spoken verdict, no charge
- Prices named before tools move
168Hours a week somebody answers
23+Years on Middlesex County brick
3250+Flues swept, sealed or rebuilt
$149The typed report — if you order it
The Service Board
Every Trade a Chimney Calls For, Under One Roof
Eight lines on the board, one crew behind all of them. Nothing gets farmed out, so the person quoting the work is the person doing it.
Once-Throughs & Camera Runs
The no-charge look, top to bottom — and when a sale or a stubborn symptom wants proof, a camera travels the flue and brings back pictures.
- Spoken verdict costs nothing
- Camera work for closings & oddball flues
- Typed $149 report made to order
Rebuilds from the Roofline
When the top of the stack has given up — leaning, shedding, or crumbled past pointing — it comes down to solid brick and goes back up true.
- Tear-down only as far as the rot goes
- New crown poured to shed water
- Brick chosen to sit right with the house
Mortar Joint Renewal
Jersey's freeze-thaw seesaw empties joints from the inside. We cut the failed mortar out clean and press new material in, matched in color and strength.
- Joints cut to firm depth, no face scars
- Mix blended against the existing wall
- Soft lime mortar where old brick wants it
Caps, Crowns & Screens
An uncapped flue swallows rain, leaves and the occasional squirrel. Stainless caps sized to the tile, crowns re-poured, screens fitted against nests and stray sparks.
- Single and multi-flue stainless caps
- Crown crack repair & full re-pours
- Mesh sized for critters and embers alike
Water Entry & Flashing Repair
A stain by the chimney breast means water found a door. We test until the actual opening shows itself, then shut that door — not five guesses around it.
- Entry point proven before repair starts
- Step flashing cut in fresh where it failed
- Masonry sealed so it still breathes
Stainless Liner Installs
Split tiles and unlined flues leak heat and fumes into the framing. A new stainless run, sized to what it vents, closes the circuit safely.
- Sized to stove, insert, furnace or boiler
- Insulation jacket where the spec asks
- Old heating flues brought up to code
Firebox Masonry & Gas Hearths
Cracked back walls rebuilt in heat-rated brick, smoke chambers smoothed, hearths brought back to daily-use shape — wood or gas alike.
- Fire brick set in the right mortar
- Chamber parged for clean draw
- Gas log sets serviced & corrected
Trouble Signals
Seven Signals a Chimney Sends Before It Fails
Chimneys telegraph their problems early. Read the signal, make the call, and the fix stays small.
- Smoke drifting back into the roomThe draw has failed somewhere — blockage, damper or a flue out of proportion.
- Mortar dust collecting below the stackJoints are emptying themselves. Winter water is next in line.
- Pale streaks bleeding down the brickDissolved salts surfacing — the wall is holding water it shouldn't.
- Damp patches near the chimney breastFlashing, crown or cap has been breached. The framing is drinking it.
- A black glaze inside the flueLate-stage creosote — the form that feeds flue fires. Park the fireplace and call.
- Brick flakes on the shinglesFaces are popping off with each freeze. The wall is losing its armor.
- Nobody can name the last sweep yearThat answer is a date, and it's overdue. Ten minutes on the phone fixes it.
How the Circuit Closes
From First Ring to Finished Work in Four Moves
A simple circuit: call, look, number, fix. Current flows one direction and nothing skips a contact.
1
Close the Switch
Dial at any hour of any day. Describe what the chimney is doing and pick an arrival window on the same call.
2
The Once-Through
A tech works the whole system, inside then out, and says exactly what was found — free of charge, free of theater.
3
Numbers in Black & White
Each finding gets its own line and its own price, ordered by urgency. What happens next, and on what schedule, stays your call.
4
Current Restored
The work is done to spec, the site left spotless, and the fix stands behind a written workmanship promise.
Always On
In the Town That Never Let the Lights Go Out, the Phone Doesn't Either
Cold snap coming, closing date looming, or a smell you can't place after last night's fire — the number below works right now, whatever the hour is where you're standing.
(732) 562-2493
The Job Notebook
Pages from Recent Middlesex County Work
Every job gets logged. Here's a leaf through the recent entries — sweeps, seals, caps and courses.
Territory
Wired Into Every Corner of Edison — and the Towns Touching It
The shop sits on Brunswick Ave in 08817; the trucks run a loop that covers most of Middlesex County's heart.
- Menlo Park
- Clara Barton
- North Edison
- Oak Tree
- Edison
- Metuchen
- Highland Park
- Piscataway
- South Plainfield
- Woodbridge
- Iselin
- Colonia
- Fords
- New Brunswick
- Dunellen
- Middlesex Borough
Town not on the list? Call (732) 562-2493 — the loop stretches for the right job.
Asked Under the Porch Light
Edison Chimney Questions, Answered Without Static
Is the first look really free?
Really. The once-through carries no charge — a tech goes through firebox, damper, flue, crown, cap and the outside brick, then gives you the verdict out loud in plain words. Money only enters the picture if you want it typed: findings plus photographs, $149, made strictly to order for closings, insurers or your own records.
Who picks up at 3 a.m.?
Somebody who works on chimneys — this line has no closing time, no weekend setting, no holiday message. Strange smells after a fire, a damper stuck shut, a stack shedding in a storm: call when it happens, not when it's convenient. Flames in view or carbon monoxide suspected? Out of the house and 911 first, always.
How often should the flue get swept?
A season of steady burning earns a sweep — that's the working rule in this county. Skip two or three winters and creosote graduates from dust to crust to glass, and the glass form is what flue fires live on. Oil and gas flues want a yearly look as well; when they clog, the product is fumes, and fumes don't smell like danger.
What do our winters actually do to brick?
The freeze-thaw seesaw does the damage. Water slides into a hairline joint, freezes, and jacks the crack wider — then repeats the trick every cold night. A few seasons of that and mortar runs out like sand while brick faces flake away. Early on it's a pointing job; left alone it becomes staging and scaffold money.
There's a sale deadline on the house. How fast can you move?
Sale deadlines cut to the front of the schedule. The once-through lands inside a couple of days, and the $149 typed report follows the next business day after you order it — laid out so the attorney, the lender and the buyer each find their answer without hunting.
Insured? Vetted?
Insured top to bottom, and the certificate shows up in your inbox ahead of the appointment if you ask. Every tech on the crew is vetted before the first job, and the house gets left the way it was found — minus the soot.
Does a sweep make a mess indoors?
Not in this town. The hearth is sheeted off, cloths run along the working path, and a sealed-filter vacuum hums from the first stroke to the last. Budget about an hour for a standard sweep; the only trace left behind is a flue that draws better.
How far do the trucks range?
Home base is Brunswick Ave, and the standing loop covers Menlo Park, Clara Barton, North Edison, Oak Tree, Metuchen, Highland Park, Piscataway, South Plainfield, Woodbridge, Iselin, Fords, Colonia and New Brunswick. Near the edge of that map? One call settles it.
Get Connected
One Number, Live Every Hour You'll Ever Need It
No hold music maze, no form that goes nowhere. The voice on the line can read a flue and see the schedule.
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The line(732) 562-2493
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The shop40 Brunswick Ave Ste 100
Edison, NJ 08817 -
The loopEdison & the surrounding Middlesex County towns
Switchboard
- Mon – Sun
- Always on
- Holidays
- Still on
A tech on the wire
Describe It Once. Hear the Plan Before You Hang Up.
The smell, the stain, the lean, the closing date — say it once and you'll leave the call knowing whether it needs a visit and roughly what the remedy runs.
(732) 562-2493 Tap — It's RingingLive 24 hours, all seven days
The lab down the road never slept either
What the call sounds like
- You describe the chimney — or the deadline attached to it.
- You hear whether it genuinely needs a truck.
- An arrival window gets set around your day.
- The once-through is free; every price is named before work.