Wallingford, King County
Fitting a chimney cap in Wallingford costs from $265 for a single standard flue to $850 at the top of our range. Size and number of flues account for most of the spread: a cap that shelters a whole crown with two or three flues under it is a larger piece of metal, fabricated to order. The remainder is the roof. A cap is light, but carrying it up a steep, mossy pitch and working at the top of a tall stack is the slow part of the job, and the price reflects that honestly.
Typical investment
$265–$850
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Wallingford 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.
Before Wallingford had its name, maps showed two shoreline settlements between Fremont and the university: Edgewater to the west and Latona to the east. The Latona Bridge was dedicated on July 1, 1891, the year the area joined Seattle. Houses spread over the hill behind them in the decades that followed. They did so long before modern wind-load rules: Seattle's emergency management office puts the city's pre-1939 homes at close to 90,000, and observes that today's code sets the design gust for anything newly built at 85 mph, held three seconds. A chimney cap is a small thing to hold to that standard, but it is the highest object on the house.
Wallingford's slope faces Lake Union, with Gas Works Park on the shore where the gas plant stood from 1907. In the rainy months the lowland wind is a southerly or a southwesterly, WRCC's state narrative says, and its average speed stays below 10 mph. The averages hide the events: Seattle's windstorm profile describes major storms with gusts up to 90 mph.
Snow belongs in the picture too. January 1950 brought 25.1 inches to the University of Washington station, whose long-run average is only 5.9 inches a year. A cap has to shed that weight and stay put in a gale that arrives across open water. That is why we refuse to rely on a friction fit, why the lid overhangs, and why the hardware is stainless: a screw that rusts through is a screw that lets go.
Every chimney cap installation we do in Wallingford includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowLeave the cap off and the flue is a vertical pipe with its mouth open to the weather. Rain enters it directly. Birds nest on the smoke shelf, and a raccoon will treat a wide flue as a hollow tree. Wind crossing the opening can push smoke back down. A cap answers all four with a lid, a screen and a little height. For a screen doing duty as a spark arrestor the city's residential code turns specific (R1003.9.2). The mesh has to stop a ball half an inch across yet admit one of three-eighths; and the openings, summed, must come to no less than quadruple the outlet of the flue, which protects the draft.
Flue count, tile dimensions and crown size are noted, along with anything that is loose.
A stock cap for a standard tile; a custom cover when flues are paired or the tile is missing.
The cap is fixed with stainless hardware and tugged hard by hand to test it.
We look up the flue to confirm a clear outlet and send you the photos.
What this work is quoted at for Wallingford homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Wallingford | 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 Wallingford. 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.
Wallingford is a hillside neighborhood north of Lake Union, annexed to Seattle in 1891, on Lake Union, with bungalows and box houses, most of them built between 1906 and the end of the 1920s.
WallingfordKing County, WA · 47.661, -122.334
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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.
Going by service lives one Seattle chimney company publishes, galvanized steel is the short-lived choice (5-10 years), stainless the long one (15-20 and up), copper the longest (30 and up). We fit stainless as standard and copper on request.
Not for a straightforward cap. An inspection, $99 plus tax per chimney, is offered only if the roof visit shows damage that needs a proper look, and then the fee is credited to any repair you accept.
Only the share of the leak that comes down the flue opening. Water also gets in by a cracked crown, by porous brick, by tired flashing, and a cap does nothing for those; we name the route we find.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
