Seward Park, King County
Seward Park chimney repairs start at $425 with us. For that opening figure you get one limited job: a short run of rattling top bricks relaid, say, or a single split firebox panel swapped out. Rebuilding the section above the roof, adding a brace or reinforcing the stack is priced item by item once we have been up there and measured. Nothing is quoted from the street.
Typical investment
From $425
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Seward Park 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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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.
Seattle keeps a list of unreinforced masonry buildings, around 1,160 of them citywide, mostly put up before 1945 with bearing walls of plain red brick or clay tile. The city's own validation report finds just two in the Seward Park reporting area, one rated high risk and one medium. That count is about buildings with masonry walls; houses with a brick chimney are not on it, and no public record says how the chimneys on these streets were built. So when we climb to an older brick stack here we treat it as unreinforced until we see steel inside it, and we measure before we price.
The neighborhood takes its name from a 300-acre park that fills a peninsula reaching into the lake, and Wikipedia notes that some 120 acres of it are surviving old-growth forest with trees over 250 years old. Big trees stand on many nearby lots too. Seattle's emergency management office lists falling trees as the most expensive windstorm damage to buildings, and says the region's strongest storms push gusts as high as 90 miles an hour.
It also notes close to 90,000 Seattle houses predate 1939 and the wind standards in use now. For a repair that changes the order of work. Before any repointing on a tall stack, we check that the brick above the roofline has not loosened as a single block, that the chimney is tied to the framing, and that no heavy limb hangs within reach of it.
Every chimney repair we do in Seward Park includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowChimney repair is one of the few home jobs in this city with its own written rule. Director's Rule 5-2004 begins by recalling that the 2001 earthquake broke many unreinforced chimneys and left them as falling hazards; the cure it allows for a damaged one is to reinforce it, brace it, take it down, or replace it with a factory-built metal chimney. In kind, only the top two feet may be relaid. On permits, two figures are in print and they disagree: the 2004 rule lets repairs below 4,000 dollars go unpermitted, while R105.2 in the 2021 Seattle Residential Code sets the bar for minor work at 6,000 dollars per six months. Below the chamber's top, every repair needs a permit regardless of cost. Rather than guess, we ask SDCI about your specific address.
Water, heat and movement crack masonry in different ways; we work out which one did it before naming a cure.
Separate lines for separate defects, so the urgent ones stand apart from what could hold until spring.
Brick and mortar are matched as closely as current supply allows, and steel goes in where the rule calls for it.
Debris leaves with us, and you get the photo record together with any permit paperwork.
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 Repair | From $425 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
| 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 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.
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.
It depends on cost and depth. The two published thresholds differ, and work below the smoke chamber always requires one, so we check with SDCI and pass the answer on.
No. A stack that has moved comes down to sound masonry and goes back up, or it gets braced, as the city rule sets out. If the lean hints at the ground moving, we will suggest an engineer.
A visit to the roof and the flue first. It costs $99, sales tax on top, for each chimney; say yes to the repair we then quote and the visit is netted out of the bill.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
