You will not find a price list on this page, and that is deliberate. No flat rate gets quoted from this counter, because no two chimneys are twins: a stack that has stood since the streetcar days and a builder-grade flue from the nineties may want the same trade and be entirely different jobs. What you will find here is something better than a list: the whole method by which a price gets made, so you know exactly what you are agreeing to before you agree to anything.
The rule of the counter: look first, price second
Every job here starts with a tradesman actually seeing the work. The inspection is free, genuinely and completely: no trip fee, no report fee, no obligation. One of the crew climbs up, reads the stack from cap to flashing, runs the camera up the flue, and tells you plainly what needs doing now, what can wait a season, and what is simply fine. Only then does a price get written, because a number invented before the look is a guess dressed up as a quote.
One written number, and the number holds
When work is called for, you get the price on paper before the ladder goes up again, and that is the price you pay. The written number is the number: it does not grow in the driveway, it does not sprout line items halfway through, and if we open the work up and find something we did not quote, we stop and talk before anything changes. A trade lives on its name, and ours is over the door.
What moves a price up or down
Residential chimney pricing turns on a few honest measures, and knowing them tells you most of what a quote will say:
- The size of the job itself. A few joints repointed is modest work; a full crown recast or a firebox rebuild is a proper undertaking. Most jobs sit plainly somewhere on that line, and the quote says where.
- Height and access. A single-story ranch and a steep three-story Victorian ask very different things of a ladder and the tradesman on it.
- The condition the first look uncovers. Sound masonry takes repairs quickly; neglected masonry asks for more preparation before the real work can start.
- Materials. A stainless cap and a copper shroud do the same duty at different cost, and mortar matched to heritage brick takes more care than the common mix. You choose with the numbers in front of you.
Where each trade tends to sit
Without pretending to numbers we have not measured for, the trades sort themselves honestly by weight. The inspection is free, always. Sweeping, dryer vent cleaning and cap fittings sit at the modest end of the book. Repointing, crown work, firebox repair and animal removal scale with what the look uncovers. Relining, gas insert fitting, fireplace installation and full masonry restoration are the proper undertakings of the trade, and they get quoted with the care proper undertakings deserve. Commercial buildings run by their own measures, told plainly on the commercial page.
What you will never meet here
- A price invented over the phone for a chimney nobody has seen.
- A quote that grows once the work is underway.
- Work sold that the stack does not need. If the flue is clean and the joints are sound, you will be told so, and that visit costs nothing.
- Pressure. The written quote is yours to sit with, compare and think over. It does not expire on a handshake timer.
Frequently asked about pricing
Why is there no price list with dollar figures?
Because an honest number needs a look first. Two chimneys wanting the same trade can differ by height, condition, access and materials, and a list flat enough to cover both would be wrong for each. The method here is better for you: a free look, then one written number for your actual chimney, and the number holds.
Is the inspection really free even if I book no work?
Really free, whatever comes of it. Some looks end with a quote, some end with a handshake and the news that nothing is wrong. Both are good days at this shop. The free look is how we would want to be treated, so it is how we treat you.
Can the written quote change once work starts?
Not on its own, it cannot. The written number is the number for the work quoted. On the rare day a chimney hides something the look could not reach, the work stops and you hear about it before anything is added, priced in writing like everything else. Nothing gets decided in your driveway without you.
How do I get my number?
Start the way every job starts: get in touch and book the no-charge look. A tradesman reads the stack, you get the findings straight, and if work is called for, the price arrives in writing before a tool comes off the truck.