Chimneys are the most weather-exposed feature on your house. We rebuild crumbling crowns, tuck-point mortar joints, install stainless-steel liners, replace rusted caps, and waterproof masonry with vapor-permeable sealers. Every job starts with a 25-point inspection. Serving Clifton and neighborhoods like Athenia, Allwood, Botany Village.
Clifton's mid-century homes were built with the chimney inside the envelope more often than not, which is good for draft and bad for detection: when the crown or the flashing fails, the water runs down inside the chase and shows up as a stain on a bedroom ceiling far from the chimney. We inspect the crown, the cap, and the flashing as a set on Clifton homes because the visible symptom rarely points at the actual entry point.
Botany Village and the older sections of Clifton still have plenty of original clay-lined stacks serving converted heating systems. Cracked tiles in those liners are common and cannot be seen from the roof or the firebox — it takes a camera scan. Where we find them, a stainless liner sized to the appliance restores both safety and draft without rebuilding the exterior brick.
Beyond Botany Village's original clay-lined stacks, Athenia's Cape Cods commonly have a single interior chimney serving both a fireplace and the furnace through separate flues in the same brick chase, and Allwood's split-levels often added a second exterior stack when a family room fireplace was tacked on in the 1970s. Dutch Hill's older triple-deckers see the most flue-sharing violations we find anywhere in our territory, with two units historically tied into one undersized flue.
Clifton requires a construction permit for reline and rebuild work and inspects new liners before the chase or firebox is closed. Multi-family flue-sharing corrections in Dutch Hill and similar sections typically need fire subcode sign-off given the life-safety issue involved. Clifton's larger footprint means permit turnaround varies a bit by which zoning office handles the block, so we confirm timelines at the estimate rather than quoting a blanket number.
Clifton pricing splits along its two building eras — postwar single-family repairs (crown, cap, minor tuckpointing) run toward the lower half, while correcting an illegal flue-share in an older Dutch Hill multi-family, which usually means running two separate liners where one existed, pushes into the upper half. Camera scans to find cracked clay tile add a modest flat fee but usually save money by targeting the actual repair.
Price your own Clifton roof with our NJ cost calculatorTwo units were sharing one flue for separate gas water heaters, a code violation flagged during a sale inspection. We installed two independent stainless liners in the existing masonry chase and rebuilt the crown to accommodate both terminations. Three days, roughly $5,400.
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Frequently, yes. On Clifton homes with an interior chimney chase, water entering at the crown or flashing travels down inside the chase and emerges well away from the stack. We trace it rather than guess.
A camera scan of the flue. Cracked clay tile is invisible from the roof and from the firebox, and it is the finding that most often turns a routine inspection into a relining recommendation.
Not for two active fuel-burning appliances — that's a carbon monoxide risk if either backdrafts. We see this often in Dutch Hill's older buildings and correct it by installing separate liners sized to each appliance within the same masonry stack.
A camera scan run down the flue from the top. It shows cracked or missing tile sections clearly and lets us quote an exact reline rather than guessing. Most Clifton camera inspections take under an hour.
Both should be swept and inspected, since the added family-room fireplace flue is just as exposed to weather as the original. We typically service both in one visit to save a second trip.