Brighton, King County
A chimney cap installed on a Brighton roof costs $235 to $850. At $235 you get an off-the-shelf stainless hood that slips over one round or square flue tile. Toward $850 sit the caps that straddle two or three flues on one crown, caps with a damper door in the lid, and caps we have fabricated for a crown of unusual size. Mad Hatter Chimney Sweep, quoting its own work in the Seattle market, publishes $200 to $350 for an ordinary cap over a single flue; we cite it so you can compare, and it is not our quote.
Typical investment
$235–$850
Book an inspection
Book your $99 inspection
$99 plus tax, deducted when you approve the repair
Not sure where to start
Pick what you're seeing at your Brighton home — we'll point you to the right fix.
What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Brighton homes.
Level 1: every reachable component checked, with a Level 2 camera run added if something stays unclear
Learn more
Full-height brushing with a head chosen for clay tile or metal liner
Learn more
Photo assessment sorting surface wear from structural failure
Learn more
Video survey and flue measurements taken before ordering anything
Learn more
Cleaning and testing of the burner, pilot assembly and igniter
Learn more
Starting photos: crown on top, then each side of the stack
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Wikipedia counts Brighton among the Rainier Valley's neighborhoods, south of Hillman City and north of Rainier Beach, with light rail along Martin Luther King Jr. Way South a few blocks away. Weather here comes the way it does across Seattle. In WeatherSpark's records, southerly wind prevails for all but the stretch from early July to late September, when it swings around to the north. That southerly wind arrives with the rain, and an open flue simply collects it: the water runs down the tile, rusts the damper and soaks the smoke chamber.
HistoryLink's 98118 essay ties the 1960s transformation of this part of the city to the valley's building rush after World War II, and the census figures match: 5,373 of the area's housing units, roughly a quarter, date from 1950 to 1969. Brighton's markers of that time are civic rather than residential, land set aside for a junior high in 1948 and Graham Hill School opened in 1960.
For a cap, the age of the house matters because of what may have been added since. On a house of that period we count the flues before ordering anything: a fireplace flue, a furnace or water heater flue, sometimes a flue for an insert added later. Each needs to be covered, the cap must clear each one by the height its maker specifies, and a gas appliance's flue must not be fitted with a fine spark screen that can clog.
Every chimney cap installation we do in Brighton includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowTwo things share the word cap. Under Seattle's Residential Code, a masonry chimney ends in a slab of concrete, metal or stone, pitched to throw water off, its edge undercut to drip, and caulked apart from the flue tile; masons usually call that slab the crown. The stainless hood with a screen that sits on top of the flue is the second kind, and it is what this page prices. It keeps rain, leaves and nesting birds out, and the mesh stops sparks from leaving the flue. If the crown under it is cracked, we say so in writing, since a hood bolted onto a crumbling slab just covers the damage from view.
Each flue and the crown are measured; a stock cap is chosen or a custom one ordered.
Nests and debris are removed so nothing is trapped under the new cap.
The cap is set, screwed or clamped down, and checked for clearance above the flue.
Photos of the installed cap and the crown beneath it go to you the same day.
What this work is quoted at for Brighton homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Brighton | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Cap Installation | $235–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | 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 Brighton. 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.
Brighton is a Rainier Valley neighborhood of Seattle settled in the 1880s and named after the English seaside town, with homes in a part of the valley whose postwar growth brought a junior high site in 1948 and Graham Hill School in 1960.
BrightonKing County, WA · 47.535, -122.279
Before and after
Illustrations of what each repair changes on a typical chimney — not photos of a specific job.
Before
After
Before
After
Before
After
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.
One cap per flue works when the flues stand apart. If two or three tiles sit close together on one crown, a single cap spanning them is often simpler; we measure before suggesting either.
It rusts in a wet climate. We install stainless steel, which costs more up front and does not need replacing every few years.
If the cap is a stock size and on the truck, yes. The inspection, $99 plus tax, is then taken off the cap's price as soon as you say yes to it.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
