Georgetown, King County
Caps for Georgetown chimneys are priced $235 to $850. The low figure means a stock stainless cap for a single flue, round or square. A cap spanning two or three flues, one with a damper built in, or a custom piece for an irregular crown sits toward the top. Either way it is fastened to the flue or the crown, not just pressed on, and the screen is sized to keep birds and embers where they belong.
Typical investment
$235–$850
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Georgetown homes.
Level 1: every reachable component checked, with a Level 2 camera run added if something stays unclear
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Full-height brushing with a head chosen for clay tile or metal liner
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Photo assessment sorting surface wear from structural failure
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Video survey and flue measurements taken before ordering anything
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Cleaning and testing of the burner, pilot assembly and igniter
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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.
Boeing Field, which opened beside Georgetown in 1928 as Seattle's first municipal airport, also hosts the weather station right next to the neighborhood. WeatherSpark's station summary gives a rain season that opens around October 9 and does not let go until May 1, with November alone averaging some 7.6 inches across 16.6 wet days. An uncapped flue takes that rain straight down into the smoke chamber and the damper, where it rusts metal and wets mortar from the inside.
Every chimney cap installation we do in Georgetown includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowThe common calls are simple: a cap the winter wind tore away, one rusted through, a screen packed with leaves, or a flue that never had a cap at all. The windier half of the year at the airfield lasts from mid-October into late April, and December is the gustiest month on the station's record. Nesting birds and squirrels are a further reason to close the top before spring.
When EERI and the University of Washington surveyed damage after the 2001 earthquake, the most frequent failure on older unreinforced brick buildings was brick shaken loose from parapets and chimneys. Wood-frame houses did well overall; their trouble was mostly the chimney. Georgetown sits next to Boeing Field, where the same reconnaissance found sand ejected along the eastern runway and ground that settled by up to 9 inches.
Seattle's 2004 chimney rule treats the topmost part of a stack differently from the rest. Its last two feet, at the very top of an old unreinforced stack, may be relaid just as they were. Anything lower that gets rebuilt must carry steel, or give way to a listed metal flue. For a cap job this matters in a practical way: if the top courses under the crown are loose, we rebuild those few feet first, and only then fasten a cap to something that will hold it.
We take flue sizes and crown dimensions on site, since a cap that is a half-inch off will rattle loose.
Old fasteners, a broken cap or a nest are taken off and the flue top cleaned.
The new cap is set square, screwed or clamped to the flue, or anchored into a sound crown.
We look under the cap at the crown one more time and send you photos of the finished top.
What this work is quoted at for Georgetown homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Georgetown | 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 Georgetown. 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.
Georgetown is a Duwamish valley neighborhood of Seattle that ran its own city government from 1904 to 1910, with small one-story workers' houses from the boom years of 1890 to 1916, many of them remodeled around World War II.
GeorgetownKing County, WA · 47.547, -122.320
Before and after
Illustrations of what each repair changes on a typical chimney — not photos of a specific job.
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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.
$235 to $850. One flue with a standard cap costs least; a cap covering several flues or built to measure costs most.
The city's code requires every masonry chimney to have a cap, meaning a top of concrete, stone or metal that is pitched for runoff, carries a drip lip, and is isolated from the liners by a caulked joint. A metal rain cap with a screen sits above that and is what we install here.
A correctly sized cap does not. We match the opening to the flue so the smoke path stays as large as the flue itself.
We tell you before fitting. A cap on a failing crown hides the problem; crown repair is quoted separately.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
