Chimney and Duct Work Across Eleven New Jersey Counties
Royal Chimney Repair Bridgewater handles chimney sweeps, inspections and repairs, along with dryer vent and air duct cleaning, out of Bridgewater Township in Somerset County. The truck reaches thirty-eight towns across eleven counties, from the Somerset core outward into Hunterdon, Middlesex, Union, Essex, Morris, Monmouth, Hudson, Passaic, Bergen and Camden.
The service area
Somerset County sets the pattern and the rest of the map follows from it. Bridgewater itself is the clearest example: 71.6 percent of the township’s houses went up between 1960 and 1999, which means a single truck routinely finds a site-built masonry fireplace and a factory-built metal chimney on the same block. Move outward and the housing changes with the distance — Somerville’s downtown blocks predate 1940, Hillsborough and Bernards are 1980s subdivision country, and the Hunterdon hamlets past Raritan Township are still standing on stone. The seven clusters below sort that out by shape, not by town name, because the shape of the house is what decides the job.
Seven Housing Patterns, From Bridgewater Outward
Prewar Downtown Blocks
Somerville’s downtown rows and the old county-seat cores predate 1940, so the flue behind the wall was built before any modern lining or clearance code and often needs a liner before a new appliance can go in.
Somerville · Jersey City · Hoboken · Union City · West New York
Multifamily and Party-Wall Blocks
Flemington’s rowhouses and the dense Essex County blocks put more than one household on a shared chase, so a blocked or leaking flue is rarely just one family’s problem.
Flemington Borough · Irvington · East Orange · Newark · Passaic · Paterson
Postwar Ranch and Cape Blocks
The ranches and Capes raised in the two decades after the war carry a short chimney sized for the furnace that stood there in the 1950s, not necessarily the one running today.
Manville · Plainfield · New Brunswick · Edison · Parsippany · Clifton · Fair Lawn · Pennsauken Township · Cherry Hill Township
Coastal and Tidal Neighborhoods
Towns near the Raritan Bay and the Arthur Kill put salt air and damp ground against every cap and flashing, and the corrosion shows up on a schedule the inland towns do not see.
Perth Amboy · Elizabeth · Bayonne · Middletown Township
Streetcar-Era Suburbs
Bloomfield’s early-twentieth-century blocks, laid out along the old trolley lines, are full masonry construction built decades before today’s clearance and lining rules existed.
Bloomfield · Collingswood Borough · Haddonfield Borough
Hunterdon Mill-Hamlet Villages
The Hunterdon mill-hamlet townships west of Raritan Township still stand on stone and fieldstone stacks raised beside an old mill or rail stop, spaced far enough apart that a visit gets scheduled rather than same-day.
Readington Township · Tewksbury Township · Lebanon Township
The Tract Belt Around Bridgewater
The 1970s-90s tract build-out that surrounds Bridgewater itself is factory-built-fireplace country, where the real first question on arrival is which era of listed metal chimney is behind the wall.
Bridgewater Township · Bernards Township · Hillsborough Township · Franklin Township · Clinton Township · Raritan Township · Voorhees Township · Gloucester Township
All Eleven Counties, All Thirty-Eight Towns
Don’t See Your Town Listed?
The map below is centered on Bridgewater Township, with the eleven counties above marking the outer edge of the truck’s regular run. If your town isn’t named on this page, it is very likely still inside that circle. Call and we’ll confirm before anyone drives out.