Fremont, King County
Chimney repair in Fremont is quoted from $425. That starting figure covers a contained job: a handful of loose bricks reset, a short run of joints raked and refilled, a small leak traced and closed. The quote grows with the area of brickwork involved, with how much of the stack must come down to reach sound material, and with access: scaffolding on a narrow side yard costs more than a ladder on a low roof. Every repair price follows an on-site look, because two chimneys with the same symptom rarely have the same cause.
Typical investment
From $425
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What we do
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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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.
Three dates frame Fremont's house stock. The plat was recorded on May 8, 1888. Annexation followed in 1891. And in 1932 the Aurora Avenue bridge was finished, turning what had been a residential street into a highway that cut the eastern blocks off from the rest. Most houses on both sides of that line were already standing by then. A chimney on such a house may well have been repaired before, sometimes properly and sometimes with whatever mortar was at hand, so part of a repair visit in Fremont is reading the earlier patches.
Cold in Seattle is mild by national standards, and that mildness is what damages masonry. WeatherSpark gives December an average low of 38°F and says readings below 28°F are rare. At Portage Bay, the station on the Lake Union side of the city, the thermometer still reached freezing on roughly two dozen nights a year across 1972 to 1998, and fell to 11°F on February 4, 1989.
A brick that has soaked up rain and then freezes sheds a thin layer from its face. One night does little. A couple of dozen a year, for a century, on a stack that is wet most of the winter, produces the cupped and crumbling bricks we cut out on repair calls. This is why we replace the damaged units and then deal with how the water got in, instead of coating the surface and leaving.
Every chimney repair we do in Fremont includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowOld repairs fail in recognizable ways. Hard modern cement packed into soft original joints sheds the faces of the bricks around it. Tar or roofing cement smeared on a crown traps water underneath. A stack shortened after storm damage ends up short of R1003.9, which wants the top 3 ft clear of the roof at its point of exit and 2 ft higher than any part of the building closer than 10 ft. Seattle's permit rules name repointing among the jobs that need no permit; for anything structural we check with SDCI before work starts instead of assuming.
On the last day of February 2001 the ground slipped some 52 km under the south end of Puget Sound; PNSN, the regional seismic network, rates that Nisqually quake at 6.8 and counts about 400 people hurt. We have no published figure for chimney damage in Fremont from that day and do not suggest one.
What we can pass on is FEMA's advice for the next one. Put the same bricks back the same way, its advisory says in substance, and the next quake finds the same weakness; the agency adds that every rebuilding method in the document comes with a building permit. So when a Fremont repair turns out to involve a cracked or shifted stack above the roof, we lay out the choices FEMA lists, from capping a retired fireplace at the roofline to a lighter flue in a framed enclosure, and we take the permit question to SDCI before quoting the rebuild.
We trace the damage to its source, whether water entry, an old patch or movement, before proposing a fix.
The written quote states which courses and joints are included and what happens if more damage appears once we open it.
Unsound material is removed back to solid brick and rebuilt with mortar suited to the original masonry.
The crown and the roof joint are checked last, and you receive the photo record.
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 Repair | From $425 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
| 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 Cap Installation | $265–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
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.
Repair is measured in bricks, joints and hours of access. $425 is the smallest job we take on; the written quote gives the exact figure for your stack before anything is touched.
Yes: diagnosis is an inspection, and each chimney inspected costs $99 plus tax. A signed repair quote absorbs it, so the $99 is never paid twice.
We bring samples and match size, color and texture as closely as current supply allows. On a street-facing stack we show you the proposed brick before it goes in.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
