Georgetown, King County
Flashing work on a Georgetown chimney is priced from $325 up to $1,500. Resealing sound metal along one or two sides is the low figure. Tearing out rusted or mis-lapped flashing and installing new step pieces, counterflashing cut into the mortar and, where needed, a cricket behind the stack, is the high one. Other Seattle companies publish figures from $300 to $800 for flashing work, Mad Hatter Chimney Sweep and Homeyou among them; their scopes differ from job to job, so compare the line items, not only the total.
Typical investment
$325–$1,500
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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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Flue-by-flue measurements, or the whole crown for a multi-flue hood
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Cleaning and testing of the burner, pilot assembly and igniter
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
The city's 2014 Georgetown survey lists what usually changed on the neighborhood's old houses: replacement windows, which it ties to aircraft noise from Boeing Field, and new cladding laid over the original walls, such as brick-pattern asphalt, aluminum or vinyl siding. Each layer of new material around a chimney is another seam where water can get in. When a stack runs up an outside wall, we look at the joint between brick and siding as closely as the joint between brick and shingles, because a past re-siding job often left the old flashing buried, cut short or simply caulked over.
Every chimney flashing repair we do in Georgetown includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowWind matters as much as rain. The Boeing Field station records wind mostly from the south from mid-September to early July, and its windiest month is December. Rain pushed sideways against the uphill face of a stack finds any gap in the flashing quickly. The tell-tale signs show up indoors first: a stain spreading on the ceiling by the hearth, a soft patch of wallboard, or a musty smell the morning after a storm.
Chimneys took the worst of the 2001 earthquake for ordinary homes. Of the 30,000 houses FEMA looked at after that quake, a USGS open-file report puts chimney damage at about one house in three, and in Georgetown the shaking came with liquefied ground at Boeing Field next door. Seattle's response, Director's Rule 5-2004, spells out the acceptable ways to rebuild a damaged stack.
One of those routes matters directly for flashing: rebuilding the chimney from just below the roof line and adding an external roof brace. A rebuild that starts under the roof means the step and counterflashing come out and go back in, and a brace adds fastening points on the roof that have to be sealed too. When a repair under the rule is on the table, we plan the flashing as part of it, so the stack and the roof seam are finished together instead of in two visits.
We trace stains back to the roof and check each face of the stack, including the uphill side where water pools.
Shingles around the base are lifted and the failed metal comes off, so the new work is not built over the old problem.
Step flashing goes in course by course, then counterflashing is cut into the brick and lapped over it so water runs down and away.
Where the stack meets siding, that seam gets its own flashing and seal rather than a bead of caulk.
A water test or a full photo set shows the finished joint before we leave.
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 Flashing Repair | $325–$1,500 | Reseal at the low end, full flashing replacement at the high |
| 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
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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.
If the metal is intact and correctly lapped, a reseal works. If it is rusted, too short or was never let into the brick, new flashing is the lasting fix.
A small peaked roof behind the chimney that splits water around it. Seattle's code wants one behind a chimney whose width across the slope tops 30 inches when the stack does not reach the ridge, with flashing and counterflashing at its seams.
Yes. We take care lifting older shingles and match the flashing detail to whatever cladding sits beside the stack.
We charge $99 plus tax for the diagnostic trip, and that amount is deducted when you sign off on the flashing quote.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
