Greenwood, King County
Every Greenwood chimney inspection carries one price, $99 plus tax per chimney. There is no surcharge for a camera, a two-story roof or a sale deadline. A house with two separate chimneys is billed for two. Should the report lead to work and you sign the quote, we deduct the $99 from it; decline the quote and you owe nothing more than the fee already paid.
What we charge
$99 plus tax
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$99 plus tax, deducted when you approve the repair
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Pick what you're seeing at your Greenwood home — we'll point you to the right fix.
What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Greenwood homes.
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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Measurement of each flue, or of the crown when a single cap will span several
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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.
Greenwood's ground has an unusual history for a residential district. David T. Denny laid out the 40-acre Woodland Cemetery near W 85th Street in 1891, HistoryLink recounts, and it took the name Greenwood Cemetery in 1903. Four years later a former governor, Henry McBride, bought the cemetery land and platted it for houses as the Greenwood Park Addition. Homes have stood on those lots ever since. Dates like these tell us when streets were laid out, not how each chimney was built or what has been done to it since, and that gap is what an inspection fills.
Every chimney inspection we do in Greenwood includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowTwo different rule histories meet here. The part of Greenwood below N 85th Street was inside Seattle from early on. The part above it joined in 1954, and the city's survey of commercial districts notes that annexations between 1940 and 1956 added twenty square miles to Seattle. We have no source describing how houses north of 85th were inspected when they were built, so we make no claim about them. We check every chimney against what is in front of us: is the flue lined, is it the right size for what it serves, and are the clearances to wood framing visible and adequate.
The middle of Greenwood rests on a peat deposit. Seattle placed peat bogs on its list of Environmentally Critical Areas on August 22, 2008, and N 85th Street, which crosses the old bog, was rebuilt in 2012. HistoryLink adds that drainage arrived late, with storm drain work in the neighborhood still awaited in the 1970s.
We are chimney inspectors, not soil engineers, and no source we have read links peat to damage in any particular Greenwood house. So we stay with what can be measured. A chimney is the heaviest single element of a wood-frame house and stands on its own footing. We check it for plumb, look for stepped cracks near the base and for separation from the wall, and record the measurements with the date. If a second visit years later finds the same numbers, that is useful news; if not, you have evidence to take to an engineer. Questions about what the critical-area listing means for a given lot go to SDCI.
We ask what you know: age, past repairs, appliances changed. Old permits and photos help if you have them.
The inspection starts at the base of the chimney and follows it through the house to the roof.
The inside surfaces are examined, on video when eyesight alone cannot reach.
Each observation is photographed and classed: fine, to watch, or to fix. The report says which and why.
Seattle's emergency management office describes the Seattle Fault as crossing the middle of the city from east to west and as capable of an earthquake as large as magnitude 7.5. The Washington Geological Survey lists it among the shallow crustal faults, one of three earthquake sources for the region along with deep events below 45 km and the Cascadia megathrust.
An inspection report cannot predict how a chimney will behave in any of those. It can state plainly whether the chimney is old unreinforced brick and where it stands in relation to the rooms people use. FEMA's interim advice for a masonry chimney that has not been retrofitted is modest and practical: limit the time spent right beside it, indoors and outdoors, and do not sleep next to it. Our report notes which rooms adjoin the stack so you can apply that advice.
What this work is quoted at for Greenwood homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Greenwood | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Inspection | $99 plus tax | Level 1 visual; Level 2 adds a full camera scan |
| Chimney Sweep | $209–$459 | Full flue swept, Level 1 inspection included |
| 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 |
| Chimney Cap Installation | $265–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Greenwood. 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.
Greenwood is a neighborhood platted in 1907 on a former cemetery tract, on both sides of N 85th Street, with houses on either side of the old city limit, the blocks north of N 85th Street annexed only in 1954.
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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.
$99 plus tax per chimney, with no extra for the camera. Approve our quote and the job is credited with that amount.
We cannot tell from a map, and neither can anyone else. What we can do is measure whether the stack is plumb, photograph any cracks at its base, and note the date so a later visit can show whether anything has moved.
We tell you what the city publishes. SDCI exempts repointing and says most other projects, fireplace work included, need a permit. For your specific repair we ask SDCI before work starts.
Please do. It takes about two hours, and seeing the video live answers most questions on the spot.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
