Fremont, King County
A chimney cap installed in Fremont costs $265 to $850. One stainless cap on one standard flue tile, reached from a roof of moderate pitch, is the $265 job. The high end is a cap made to measure for an odd-sized or tile-less flue, or a single large cover spanning two or three flues on the same crown. Height and pitch matter as well, since reaching the top of a high chimney above a sharp pitch is slow, roped work. We measure on the roof first and order or build the cap to that measurement.
Typical investment
$265–$850
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The same crew, the same written quote — for Fremont homes.
A Level 1 review of everything reachable, raised to a Level 2 camera scan when a question stays open
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The whole flue brushed, using heads picked for the liner's size and shape
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A photo assessment that distinguishes surface wear from structural damage
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Camera survey and measurements taken before any liner is chosen
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Glass removed, cleaned and checked for a sound gasket
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Crown and all four sides photographed before any work
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Fremont climbs north from the Ship Canal, and its houses are stacked up that slope on lots laid out in 1888. The house types recorded by the city's survey range from late-Victorian cottages and American Foursquares to Craftsman bungalows, Tudor Revival houses and, later, Minimal Traditional and Ranch houses. With that many building periods on one hillside, we take nothing about the top of a stack for granted. A flue may end in a clay tile standing proud of the crown or sit flush with it, and a cap bought by nominal size at a hardware store only fits the first kind.
Seattle's windier months run from about October 15 to April 24 on WeatherSpark's calendar, with December the windiest. The city's emergency management office adds the upper bound: the big Puget Sound storms blow at a sustained 60-70 mph, gusting to 90. Fremont's southern edge is open water: Lake Union and the Fremont Cut.
A cap that merely grips the top flue tile by friction is the one found in the yard in January. We fasten into the tile's sides with stainless screws, or into the crown with masonry anchors when the tile is cracked or absent, and we check the tile first: a clamp is only as firm as the clay it squeezes. Snow counts too: the Portage Bay gauge on the lake side measured 22.5 inches in December 1996, a load a flat lid has to carry without folding.
Every chimney cap installation we do in Fremont includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowA missing cap leaves the flue open to three things: rain, animals and downdrafts. Seattle's residential code does not oblige every chimney to carry a spark arrestor, but where one is fitted, R1003.9.2 sets the mesh. It has to stop a half-inch sphere and let a three-eighths-inch one through, and the screen's clear openings must total four flue-outlet areas or more. Undersize the cap, or set its lid too close to the tile, and the draft is throttled until the fireplace smokes. The State Fire Marshal's Office, writing on home heating in September 2026, names the cap in one breath with a hearth screen, glass doors and alarms that work.
On the roof we write down how many flues there are, each tile's outer size and how far it stands proud of the crown.
Stock stainless where it fits; a made-to-measure cover where the opening is irregular or shared.
Screws through the cap's clamp or anchors into sound crown, never adhesive alone.
A draft check follows the last screw, then the photographs.
What this work is quoted at for Fremont homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Fremont | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Cap Installation | $265–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
| Chimney Sweep | $209–$459 | 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 Repair | From $425 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Fremont. 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.
Fremont is a neighborhood platted in 1888 beside what became the Ship Canal and annexed to Seattle in 1891, on Lake Union, with houses built mostly between 1902 and the end of the 1920s.
FremontKing County, WA · 47.651, -122.350
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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.
A stainless cap, by one Seattle sweep company's published estimate, is good for 15-20 years and beyond; galvanized, for 5-10. That is their figure, not a guarantee from us, but it is the reason the caps we fit are stainless.
A cap can be fitted without one. Should the crown or tile prove too damaged to hold a cap, we stop and offer an inspection instead ($99 plus tax); hire us for the repair it identifies and the repair bill swallows that fee.
Yes. A multi-flue cap sits on the crown and shelters all the openings under one lid. It costs more than a single cap and protects the crown itself from standing water.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
