A black mesh chimney cap on top of a brick chimney coated in black, between shingle roofs under a grey sky.

Chimneys, dryer vents and air ducts

Chimney repair and sweeping from Bridgewater

We put a camera down the flue before we touch it, then sweep, inspect or repair what it shows, for wood, oil and gas chimneys. The same crew cleans dryer vents and air ducts.

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  • 7 am to 9 pm office hours, every day
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  • 11 New Jersey counties

Two trades, one visit

Chimneys on one side, ducts and dryer vents on the other

Royal Chimney Repair Bridgewater handles the chimney and the vents that run through the rest of the house. Book one job or put both on the same visit when the fireplace and the dryer both need attention.

An open fieldstone fireplace with an iron grate, and a boxed glass door kit still wrapped in plastic on the wood floor in front of it.

Chimney sweeping, inspection and repair

A camera look first, then a sweep, a Level 1 or Level 2 inspection, or a repair to the crown, cap, flashing or liner, matched to the fuel your chimney serves.

  • Inspection

    You see the flue on screen with us

    The camera goes down before the first brush, and the picture plays on a monitor you can watch. Under NFPA 211 a chimney gets looked at every year. The Level 2 inspection, which adds video of the whole flue, is the one called for after a fuel or appliance change, a house sale, a chimney fire or any event that could have hurt the structure.

    Chimney sweeping

  • Repair

    Fixing what the camera turns up

    Water usually gets into a chimney through a cracked crown or loose flashing long before anyone sees smoke in the room. We repair the crown, cap, flashing or liner that the inspection shows is failing.

    Chimney repair
Chimney services

Dryer vent and air duct cleaning

We pull the lint out of the whole dryer run, clean supply and return ducts, and tell you plainly when a duct cleaning would not change anything.

  • Vents and ducts

    Towels still damp after a full cycle, or ductwork that may never have been opened. We clear the line and give you an honest read on whether duct cleaning would pay off.

Air and dryer services

How a chimney is built

From the top of the stack down into the flue

The four parts of a chimney we check most, beginning on the roof and ending inside the flue the smoke climbs.

Inside a round metal flue, a rusted damper plate in the foreground and a small point of daylight far up the pipe.
Two clay flue tiles sticking up from a chimney top coated in black sealant, wet with rain, with frame houses and trees behind.
Crown
The concrete cap poured over the top of the brick. It throws rain off the masonry and away from the flue.
Cap
A hood fixed above the flue so that rain, birds, squirrels and leaves stay out.
Flashing
Metal sheet sealing the gap where the chimney meets the roof, worked in under the shingles around it.
Liner
The lining inside the chimney that guides smoke and combustion gases from the fireplace, furnace or stove to open air.

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What a visit looks like

Four steps on every job

Whether it is a yearly sweep or a fix on the crown, the order of the day does not change.

  1. Call or book online

    Tell us what you notice, like smoke drifting back, a damper that will not budge or a dryer that runs twice, and we tell you which visit fits.

  2. The camera goes in first

    Before any brush touches the flue, the camera travels its full length and the picture goes to a screen you can watch.

  3. Only the work you approve

    On a sweep, rods and brushes work up the flue while the HEPA vacuum runs. On a repair, we fix only the crown, cap, flashing or liner you saw on screen.

  4. Photos and a straight answer

    You keep the before and after photos, and anything else the camera showed is explained in plain words before it appears on an invoice.

Eleven counties served from Bridgewater, and a person on the phone from 7 am to 9 pm, every day. Book online 24/7.

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Eleven counties, one crew

Our trucks leave from Bridgewater Township in Somerset County and travel well past it. Choose any county, on the map or by name, and its towns open up.

Map of the eleven New Jersey counties Royal Chimney Repair Bridgewater serves, from Hunterdon in the west to Hudson and Union by the harborSomersetMiddlesexUnionHunterdonMorrisEssexHudsonMonmouthPassaicBergenCamden

Camden County appears in the small inset at the lower left, and each county opens a page that lists the towns we visit there.

Choose a county

All 38 towns by county

Somerset County

Middlesex County

Union County

Hunterdon County

Morris County

Essex County

Hudson County

Monmouth County

Passaic County

Bergen County

Camden County

Before you call

Common questions

Do you really cover eleven counties from Bridgewater?

Yes. The crew works out of Bridgewater Township and serves homes in Somerset, Middlesex, Union, Hunterdon, Morris, Essex, Hudson, Monmouth, Passaic, Bergen and Camden counties. Visits to the farthest counties are booked ahead.

How often should a chimney be looked at?

Once a year, per NFPA 211. Creosote that can catch fire builds up out of sight, so looking up from the hearth will not tell you how much is there.

I do not burn wood. Do I still need a sweep?

Often yes. In Bridgewater Township alone 417 households heat with fuel oil and 228 with LP, and every gas furnace or water heater still vents through a flue. A camera pass is the way to see what is inside it.

Do you clean dryer vents and air ducts too?

Yes, as two different visits. For the dryer we pull the lint from the back of the machine all the way to the hood on the outside wall. For the house we clean the heating and cooling ducts, supply side and return side, and we say so when yours are fine as they are.

What if the camera finds a problem?

You see it on the monitor, we photograph it, and we explain it before anything is repaired. Nothing gets fixed without your go-ahead.