Wedgwood, King County
Creosote removal in Wedgwood is quoted from $245. The grade of the deposit sets the price more than the house does: a crusty layer comes away with rotary tools in one visit, while a shiny, tar-like glaze needs a chemical treatment and sometimes a return trip. The camera shows which you have before a figure is given.
Typical investment
From $245
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Wedgwood 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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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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Fire protection in Wedgwood began as a neighborhood effort. On November 11, 1943, before any of the area had been annexed to Seattle, residents formed their own fire district, and its volunteers answered calls with a Ford Model A pumper. The houses they were protecting were new then. The same houses are past eighty now, and a fire inside a flue remains one of the few emergencies an owner can prevent with maintenance alone.
The Chimney Safety Institute of America separates creosote by what it takes to remove it. Crusty deposits yield to rotary cleaning. Gummy or glazed creosote does not; its makeup has to be altered by a chemical treatment before a brush can take it out. CSIA also sets the threshold for acting: an eighth of an inch in a masonry fireplace, and sooner whenever glaze is present.
In a neighborhood where homes from the 1940s and 1950s form 28.5 percent of the surrounding ZIP area, a wood insert, where there is one, may have been fitted long after the fireplace was built. The Seattle Mechanical Code wants an insert installed to its listing and its maker's instructions. When one was instead slid into the firebox with no liner, smoke cools in the large old flue and condenses there, behind the insert's surround, out of sight. Pulling the unit to look is part of our removal work on any insert that has not been opened in years.
Every creosote removal we do in Wedgwood includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowHeavy creosote is less a matter of how much a fireplace is used than of how it is used. Small smoldering fires, damp wood and a flue that stays cool all leave more residue than a hot, brief blaze. For the 98115 ZIP area that Wedgwood belongs to, the Census estimates that no home at all uses wood as its main fuel, so fires here are occasional ones lit in a cold chimney, a pattern that can glaze a flue without anyone noticing.
The camera travels the flue and the deposit is classed as sooty, crusty or glazed. You see the footage.
Rotary heads take off the loose and crusty layers while a vacuum holds the dust at the firebox.
Glazed patches get a coat of remover and time for it to act. It alters the deposit so that it can be brushed away.
With the walls clean, the flue is filmed again. Cracks hidden under creosote are reported with pictures.
Two of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency's rules hold on all 365 days, whether a ban is on or not. The first is about fuel. Only seasoned dry firewood and manufactured logs may be burned; garbage, treated wood and plastics are prohibited, as is paper in any quantity beyond a fire-starter, under the agency's regulation and WAC 173-433-120.
The second is about what leaves the chimney. Smoke must stay at or below 20 percent opacity, judged over six consecutive minutes in any hour. Thick smoke at the top means unburned material going up the flue, and some of it stays on the walls. So the habits that keep a household inside the air rules, dry wood and a fire with enough air, are the same ones we recommend after scraping a flue clean.
What this work is quoted at for Wedgwood homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Wedgwood | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Creosote Removal | From $245 | Priced by creosote stage — glazed stage 3 is the heavy end |
| 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 Wedgwood. 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.
Wedgwood is a neighborhood first platted by developer Albert Balch in 1941, between NE 75th and NE 95th streets, with one-story houses of the 1940s next to Craftsman homes of the 1920s and 1930s.
WedgwoodKing County, WA · 47.687, -122.290
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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.
No. A sweep handles soot and light deposits with a brush. Removal is for the hardened or glazed layers a brush slides over, and it uses rotary equipment and chemical treatment.
Please do not try. Lighting a hot fire under a glazed flue is how chimney fires start. The deposit has to be changed chemically and then removed mechanically.
Through a camera inspection, billed at $99 plus tax per chimney. Should you go ahead with the removal quote, the inspection amount is credited on that invoice.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
