Hillman City, King County
Hillman City cap jobs fall between $235 and $850. One flue, one standard stainless cap, an easy roof: that is the $235 end. Spanning a crown that holds several flues, adding a damper that seals at the top, or bending a cap to fit an irregular crown brings the figure toward $850. Each one is screwed or clamped down, never just dropped on.
Typical investment
$235–$850
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$99 plus tax, deducted when you approve the repair
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Pick what you're seeing at your Hillman City home — we'll point you to the right fix.
What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Hillman City 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.
Many houses in this part of the city stand on their own lot with their own chimney. Census data for 98118, the ZIP area Hillman City belongs to, counts detached single-family houses at 59.2% of homes, against 36.8% for Seattle as a whole. That figure belongs to the entire ZIP area, but it describes the job well: on most calls here, one household owns one stack, sees the top of it from the sidewalk, and decides alone what goes on it.
Every chimney cap installation we do in Hillman City includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowUncapped, a flue here is a rain gauge with a fireplace at the bottom. WeatherSpark's Seattle summary has the wet season running from about October 10 to April 30, with November alone bringing some 7.5 inches of rain across nearly 17 wet days. Whatever falls in runs to the damper and the smoke shelf, corroding the plate and leaching mortar from the shelf. When the weather warms, starlings and squirrels go looking for a dry hollow, and a nest left in the flue becomes fuel for the first fire of the season.
In Seattle's code book, a brick chimney is not finished until its top is. Section R1003.9.1 lists stone, concrete or metal for that top piece, and asks that it be sloped to drain, edged with a drip, and isolated from the flue liner by a caulked bond break, so liner and crown can each expand with heat on their own.
Adding a spark arrestor brings section R1003.9.2 into play. Its net free opening has to reach four times the flue outlet, or more, so the draft is not choked. Code asks the screen to match the heat and rust resistance of galvanized wire at 19 gage, or stainless at 24. And the mesh is sized from both sides: a half-inch ball must not pass, a three-eighths-inch ball must. That last rule is a balance: too fine a mesh plugs with soot, too coarse a mesh lets embers out. The caps we fit are sized against those numbers.
A cap does not fix a stack that is too short, either. The same chapter sets a minimum of three feet of masonry visible over its roof exit, plus two feet of rise over any roof surface or wall closer than ten feet.
We record the flue size and shape, the crown condition and the height above the roof.
Sticks, leaves and anything an animal carried up there come out by hand before the new cap is set.
The cap is set square over the flue and secured so wind cannot lift it.
You get photos of the cap from above and from the side.
What this work is quoted at for Hillman City homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Hillman City | 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 Hillman City. 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.
Hillman City is a Rainier Valley neighborhood of Seattle platted in 1888 and renamed by its developer in 1902, with homes on streets laid out in the electric-railway era, in a ZIP code area (98118) where 18 percent of the housing predates 1940.
Hillman CityKing County, WA · 47.551, -122.287
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.
Seattle's residential code wants the top of a brick chimney closed off and drained. A screened stainless cap handles rain and wildlife together, and on site we show you what your stack has now.
Yes. Because a multi-flue cap covers and anchors to the entire crown, it costs more than one for a single flue.
For a cap alone we can often quote after measuring. When we do inspect first, the Hillman City visit is $99 plus tax and is removed from the cap price once you say yes to it.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
