Kirkland, King County
A chimney sweep in Kirkland runs $189 to $459 per flue. Where you land in that range depends on how steep the roof is, how tall the stack runs and how much soot has collected since the flue was last brushed. We brush the whole flue from the firebox to the cap, clear the smoke shelf, and leave the room as we found it.
Typical investment
$189–$459
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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 Kirkland homes.
Level 1, or a Level 2 when needed, which means a video camera travels the full flue
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Replacement of cracked or spalled brick with a close color match
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Camera scan and flue measurement before anything is ordered
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Measurement of each flue and of the crown before fitting
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Burner, pilot assembly and thermocouple or thermopile cleaned and checked
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Crown rebuilt with a slope and a drip edge that throws water off
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Kirkland is mostly a city of houses from the 1960s, 70s and 80s: census estimates put the median home at 1984, and more than a third of the housing stock went up between 1960 and 1979. Many of those homes were built with a wood-burning fireplace, even though about half of Kirkland households now heat mainly with electricity and most of the rest with natural gas. The fireplace is usually the evening fire, not the furnace, and it tends to be forgotten between winters.
WeatherSpark puts the breezier half of Kirkland's year between mid-October and late April, with December the windiest month, and the wind blowing mostly out of the south from mid-September to late June. Across western Washington, the hardest late-fall and winter blows come out of the south or southwest, in the Western Regional Climate Center's summary.
For a flue on a lake-facing roof, gusts across the top can push smoke back down instead of letting it rise. A slow, cool draft leaves more soot on the flue walls, so homes with an open view to the water often need brushing sooner than a sheltered house a few streets inland.
Oregon State University Extension calls roof moss inevitable in the moist Pacific Northwest and notes that it thrives in shade. WSU Extension adds that moss gathers mostly under or right next to the eaves, and that cutting back overhanging branches is part of keeping it down.
The same tall trees that shade a Kirkland roof drop needles and twigs onto the chimney. They collect on the cap's mesh and choke the draft, so every sweep includes clearing the screen, and we tell you if a limb over the stack is making the job come back each year.
Every chimney sweep we do in Kirkland includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowThe two sweeps we see most here are opposites. One is a fireplace that sat unused for several years, with a nest or a mat of fir needles resting on the damper when someone lights the first fire of the fall. The other is a stove or insert that burns most winter evenings on wood that never fully dried, leaving a hard, shiny coat that takes scraping tools, not bristles.
Canvas covers the route from your entry to the hearth. Our HEPA unit gets taped across the fireplace mouth before the first rod goes up.
Up on the roof we check the cap, the crown and the flue to learn whether the brush will run through clay tile, a steel liner or factory-built pipe.
Rods and a brush matched to the flue size work the entire length. Afterward the damper plate and the sloped smoke chamber above it are scraped and wiped by hand.
You get the photos we took going in and coming out, plus a line or two about anything worth watching.
Between early October and the opening days of May, Kirkland is in what WeatherSpark calls its wetter season, and November alone averages about 8.2 inches of rain. Midwinter hardly lets up; climate records kept by the Western Regional Climate Center show many western Washington towns logging some precipitation on 20-plus days of both December and January.
Firewood left outdoors over those months seldom dries completely. Damp logs burn cool and smoky, and what does not leave the chimney sticks to it, which is why a Kirkland stove that runs all winter builds up faster than the same stove would in a drier climate.
What this work is quoted at for Kirkland homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Kirkland | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$459 | 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 |
| Chimney Cap Installation | $235–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Kirkland. 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.
After the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, USGS researchers went block by block through about 60,000 chimneys in the metro area around the Sound and counted 1,556 damaged ones. Another USGS study rates the southern Whidbey Island fault able to produce a magnitude 7 or larger quake.
A brush pulled through a flue is also a good look at its walls. If we see a cracked tile, a gap in the mortar or a shifted crown while cleaning, we photograph it and tell you, because a damaged flue should not simply be swept and put back in service.
Kirkland is an 18-square-mile city on the east shore of Lake Washington, on Lake Washington, with homes with a median build year of 1984, more than a third of them put up in the 1960s and 1970s. We work every part of it — Houghton, Juanita, Rose Hill, Finn Hill, Kingsgate included.
KirklandKing County, WA · 47.677, -122.206
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.
Expect $189 to $459 per flue. Ranch roofs and a light dusting of soot keep it low; two stories of steep pitch or a glazed crust move it up.
The national chimney standard, NFPA 211, sets a yearly inspection and a sweep whenever deposits turn up. A fireplace lit a handful of times a winter may only need brushing every other year; a stove burned nightly needs it every season.
Late summer and early fall. The roof is usually dry, and you avoid the rush that follows the first cold weekend in October.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
