Wallingford, King County
Repair work on a Wallingford chimney is quoted from $425 upward. We do not publish an upper figure because the upper jobs differ so much: twenty bricks swapped at shoulder height on a single-story roof is one thing, and dismantling a chimney as far as the shingles, then relaying it, is another. Between those, price follows the count of bricks and courses, the height we work at, and whether the damage stops at the surface. The written quote names a single figure and what it includes.
Typical investment
From $425
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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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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.
In 1909 the city graded many of Wallingford's streets and gave them curbs and sidewalks, part of the improvements made for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Streetcars linked the neighborhood to the rest of Seattle that same year. Builders followed the pavement. Half a century later the freeway arrived: Interstate 5 construction started along Wallingford's east edge in the late 1950s, and the full Seattle Freeway opened in 1965. A chimney original to a house of the streetcar years was already middle-aged when the freeway opened, and it has stood through sixty more winters since.
The University of Washington weather station recorded 33.1 freezing nights a year on average between 1909 and 1983, 11.0 of them in January, and bottomed out at 5°F one December night in 1919 (the 12th). It also recorded what came before the frost: December was its wettest month, at 5.65 inches. Wallingford, on the hill above Lake Union's north shore, belongs to the area that record describes.
Rain followed by frost is the sequence that takes brick apart, and December and January supply both. The parts of a chimney that are wet when the temperature drops are the parts we end up replacing: the uppermost courses and the shoulders. Swap the bricks and leave the top open, and the same repair comes due again. So ours ends with the top closed properly, which keeps the new brick from starting the winter soaked.
Every chimney repair we do in Wallingford includes:
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Book nowChimney damage is easier to describe than to see from the street. The top three or four courses go first, because they are wet from above and from all sides. Next is the shoulder, where a wide fireplace base narrows to the flue and water sits on the slope. Last is the base at grade, where splashing rain and soil keep brick damp. A lean usually starts at the roofline, where the stack loses the support of the house. Each of these has a different repair, which is why we will not price one by telephone.
For a masonry chimney built today in Seattle's seismic design categories, the residential code requires vertical steel, four continuous No. 4 bars for a chimney up to 40 inches wide (R1003.3.1), and anchorage: a pair of steel straps measuring 3/16 inch by 1 inch, which R1003.4.1 wants fixed to four joists apiece so that stack and frame move together.
Those sections govern new construction. They are a useful yardstick for an old stack all the same, because FEMA's advisory identifies the opposite case, aged unreinforced brick with weakened mortar, as the chimney with the worst prospects in a quake, and warns that even code-compliant modern masonry chimneys can be significantly damaged. During repair we see inside the stack. If there is no steel and no tie to the house, we tell you, and we do not describe a patched chimney as an earthquake-resistant one.
Every face we can reach is tapped and the joints are tested for depth of sound mortar.
Repair stops at the first course that is solid all the way around; the quote says which one.
New work is bonded to old, coursed to match, and kept damp while it cures.
A repaired stack gets a sound crown before we leave it to the weather.
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 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 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
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.
For repointing, no: Seattle's exemption list names it. For partial or full rebuilding we will not answer from memory. We describe the scope to SDCI and pass on what the department says for your address.
The inspection rate: $99 plus tax, multiplied by the number of chimneys looked at. Approve the repair and you are not charged it again: the $99 is netted out of the repair price.
If the other faces test sound, yes. We would rather fix one face properly than skim four.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
