Greenwood, King County
In Greenwood a chimney repair costs $425 or more. At $425 we are talking about one contained defect: a handful of bricks reset, a short crack stitched. Costs rise with the number of courses that must come down, with the height at which the work happens, and with what lies under the damage, because a repair that ignores its cause does not last. You get the cause, the scope and the price on one written page.
Typical investment
From $425
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Greenwood 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.
Greenwood Avenue shows what masons were building here a century ago. HistoryLink notes that Greenwood State Bank opened in 1925 and that brick and stone storefronts rose along the avenue through the 1920s and 1930s. The city's commercial survey adds the Masonic Lodge at N 79th Street, dated 1924, and a plain wood-clad church of 1907 that ranks among the oldest buildings in the neighborhood. A house chimney laid in those same decades is now roughly a hundred years old, the age at which joints give out and tops loosen whatever the care taken since.
Every chimney repair we do in Greenwood includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowA repaired top still has to meet the height rule. Seattle Residential Code R1003.9 sets the minimum: the chimney ends no less than 3 feet above the point where it leaves the roof, and it must also clear by 2 feet anything the building puts within a 10-foot radius. We measure before rebuilding, since older stacks and later additions do not always agree. On permits, repointing is exempt by name on SDCI's list; for a partial rebuild we do not guess. The department says that most projects off the exemption list need a permit and counts fireplace work among them, so we put the question to SDCI with the scope in hand.
Greenwood has more history with water than most of North Seattle. Its center lies on peat, a material the city has treated as an Environmentally Critical Area since 2008, and N 85th Street was rebuilt across it in 2012. Overhead, the regional picture applies: on the lowlands up to Seattle, the Western Regional Climate Center's yearly precipitation range is 32 to 35 inches.
Most of the chimney damage we repair starts with water, from whichever direction it comes. Rain enters through a failed crown and works downward, loosening the upper courses. Moisture at the base of a stack wicks upward into soft old brick. We look at both ends before quoting, because rebuilding the top of a chimney whose base stays wet, or the reverse, only postpones the next repair. We do not attribute any particular crack to the peat; that is a question for an engineer, and we tell you when we think one should be asked.
Water, movement at the base, a past chimney fire or simple age: each leaves a signature, and the repair differs for each.
The quote lists what will be taken down, what will be rebuilt and with which materials.
If the work exceeds repointing, we ask whether a permit applies and tell you before scheduling.
Work proceeds from the lowest damaged course upward, with joints tooled to shed rain.
Photos of each stage are sent with the invoice.
Seattle's emergency management office expects deep earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or more about every 30 to 50 years. The last three were in 1949, at magnitude 7.1, in 1965, at 6.7, and the Nisqually event of 2001. A Greenwood chimney from the 1920s has been through all of them. No survey we could read reports what happened to chimneys in this neighborhood, so past repairs are something we look for on the stack itself: mismatched brick, a rebuilt top, an old crack filled with newer mortar.
When earthquake damage is the reason for a repair, FEMA's advisory is direct. Rebuilding a damaged masonry chimney to its old design is what it advises against, since the next earthquake would find the same weakness, and it notes that its reconstruction options always require a building permit. We bring that guidance, and the permit question, into the quote from the start.
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 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 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.
$425 and up. A small reset of loose brick is at that level; partial rebuilds are priced by the courses involved and the access required.
We inspect and photograph the chimney for $99 plus tax. If you hire us for the repair, the $99 already paid is subtracted from the invoice.
It can be either. We measure the gap and check the base. If the footing appears to be moving, we say so and recommend an engineer before any money goes into the brick above.
Usually closely. We reuse sound originals first and source reclaimed brick of similar size and color for the rest.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
