Seward Park, King County
We inspect Seward Park chimneys for $99 plus tax each. Should the visit turn up work and you sign the quote that follows, that fee is deducted from it. Indoors we go over firebox, damper and smoke chamber by lamp and the flue is filmed end to end; outside, we climb to the crown, the cap and the flashing. What you get at the end is a dated set of photos and a short written verdict.
What we charge
$99 plus tax
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$99 plus tax, deducted when you approve the repair
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Seward Park homes.
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
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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.
Public records will not say what kind of chimney stands on a particular Seward Park house. Housing statistics come only at the level of ZIP 98118, which also covers Columbia City, Brighton, Othello and Rainier Beach. For that area, the American Community Survey of 2020 to 2024 gives 1968 as the median build year, about 18 percent of units from 1939 or earlier, and roughly a quarter from the two postwar decades. With that range, the first job on any visit is to learn what the house really has: brick, a metal flue boxed in a wood chase, or an old masonry opening later fitted for gas.
Wikipedia draws the neighborhood with the lake on its east and north sides and South Kenyon Street along its southern edge. The shore is not where the first settlers knew it: a drop of roughly nine feet in the lake's level, a side effect of the canal finished in 1917, redrew the park's margin. Nobody has published wind readings for these particular blocks, and we will not make one up.
What the city does publish explains why exposure is worth recording. Seattle's emergency management office places the start of structural wind damage at about 32 miles an hour, notes gusts to 90 in the worst regional storms, and names falling trees as the costliest harm to buildings. So on an inspection we write down the stack's height over the roof, whether anything braces it, and whether a tree stands close enough to strike it.
Every chimney inspection we do in Seward Park includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowCSIA, the chimney safety institute, sends homeowners to NFPA 211, under which every chimney, fireplace and vent gets an annual check for soundness, deposits and clearance to combustibles; the State Fire Marshal in Washington recommends the same yearly routine. Seattle layers its own rule on top. Director's Rule 5-2004 dates from the years after the 2001 earthquake, after which a great many brick chimneys built without steel stood broken over people's roofs. So an inspection in this city has a second purpose beyond safety: if something is wrong, it tells you which of the repairs the city permits would apply.
Book online or by phone. One chimney normally takes us less than two hours.
The damper is opened, the firebox lit with a work lamp, and the camera fed upward joint by joint.
We photograph the top of the chimney and the roofing around it, along with any limb or moss in contact.
The report arrives first. A quote follows only if something needs doing, and it already shows the fee subtracted.
What this work is quoted at for Seward Park homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Seward Park | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Inspection | $99 plus tax | Level 1 visual; Level 2 adds a full camera scan |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | Full flue swept, Level 1 inspection included |
| 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 |
| Chimney Cap Installation | $235–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Seward Park. 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.
Oregon State University Extension draws a distinction worth knowing: moss does not consume roofing, but it can pry asphalt shingles upward at their lower edge and let rain run in underneath. On a shaded lot by the park's forest, the first place that tends to happen is the uphill side of the chimney, where needles gather and stay wet.
So the roof half of our inspection covers the shingles around the stack as well as the masonry. If moss has raised a course beside the flashing, it goes in the photo report; sometimes the cure belongs to a roofer rather than to us, and we will say which.
Seward Park is a Seattle neighborhood named for the 300-acre park on its peninsula, on the lakeshore, with homes in a ZIP code area (98118) where about six in ten housing units are detached houses and the median build year is 1968.
Seward ParkKing County, WA · 47.551, -122.258
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.
Yes, the fee is per chimney. A fireplace and a furnace venting through separate flues count as two, and we say so when you book, not on the day.
It is. In a sale the costly defects sit inside the flue, where only the camera reaches, and our report reads clearly for buyer and seller alike.
You keep a dated record showing the chimney was sound on that day, which an insurer or a future buyer may well ask to see.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
