Level 1 sweep and inspection to the NFPA 211 annual standard - flue, crown, cap, and flashing checked and photographed
Chimney sweep logs do not sweep chimneys. They loosen some creosote - which then falls where a brush and vacuum still have to collect it.
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Chimney cleaning in Borough Park typically costs between $189 and $329 for a standard sweep and inspection, depending on the number of flues and how long it’s been since the last cleaning. Most jobs are done in a single visit, usually under two hours. If you live in one of the attached brick row houses that line 13th Avenue or New Utrecht Avenue, you’re dealing with chimneys that have been standing since before the Great Depression, and they need a sweep who understands how this neighborhood’s housing stock behaves. Call Top Hat Chimney at (516) 289-9316 for a straight answer on pricing before anyone rings your bell.
Wendell Pike founded Top Hat Chimney in 1999, and he still answers the phone himself more often than not. That matters in Borough Park, where trust travels by word of mouth faster than a chimney fire on a windy night.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Why Borough Park Homeowners Choose Top Hat Chimney
Borough Park is not a neighborhood where you gamble on a random name from a search ad. Homeowners here ask their neighbors, their rabbi, their landlord, their brother-in-law. Reputation is earned street by street, and a bad review travels down 16th Avenue before the truck has even pulled away.
Wendell and his crew show up in uniform, background-checked, and they give you a real arrival window, not a four-hour “sometime today.” If the window slips, the phone rings. You’ll know before you’re left waiting. Homeowners near Maimonides Medical Center and down toward 50th Street keep our number because the price quoted on the phone is the price on the invoice. Nobody likes a surprise when the ladder comes off the truck. Every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing: if it’s not right, one call brings the crew back, no charge, no argument. Seniors and veterans always save 10%.
Chimney Cleaning Services We Offer in Borough Park
Chimney Cleaning & Sweep
A proper sweep removes creosote and soot from the flue liner, smoke chamber, and firebox so your chimney draws the way it should. In Borough Park’s older homes, we also clear the kind of blockages that come from decades of use: nests, fallen brick chips, and hardened creosote glaze. Learn more about our chimney cleaning and sweep service in Borough Park.
Chimney Repair
Crumbling mortar joints and spalled brick are common in Borough Park’s 1920s and 1930s row house chimneys. We repair what’s broken, flag what can wait, and show you camera footage of every problem before recommending any work. Learn more about our chimney repair in Borough Park.
Fireplace Services
Whether you light the fireplace for warmth during a January freeze or mostly for the look of it, the firebox and damper need to be sound. We service dampers, fireboxes, and the surrounding masonry so the fire stays where it belongs. Learn more about our fireplace services in Borough Park.
Chimney Cap & Crown
A cracked crown lets water into the chimney, and water destroys brick and mortar from the inside out. We install and replace Chimney Cap & Crown - Borough Park systems to keep rain, snow, and birds out of your flue, which matters when a nor’easter rolls through in February.
Chimney Liner & Rebuild
Cracked terra-cotta liners are common in Borough Park homes built before 1950. We handle Chimney Liner & Rebuild - Borough Park work with stainless steel liners from Gelco and Olympia Chimney, and we rebuild flues when the original masonry has simply reached the end of its life. No liner recommendation happens without camera evidence you can watch on our screen.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Borough Park
We work throughout Borough Park, from the blocks around 13th Avenue’s shopping district to the quieter residential streets near 18th Avenue and down toward Fort Hamilton Parkway. Typical scheduling runs one to three days out during the fall rush, faster in summer.
- The 13th Avenue corridor
- Blocks around Maimonides Medical Center
- Streets off 18th Avenue near the F train
- Homes near Fort Hamilton Parkway and 50th Street
- The residential blocks east of New Utrecht Avenue
Why Borough Park’s Climate & Housing Affect Chimney Cleaning
Borough Park’s housing stock is dense and old. Row after row of attached brick homes built between the 1910s and 1950s share party walls, and many of them also share chimney stacks. A single stack often carries separate flues for two or three units. When one flue’s liner collapses or a blockage forms, the neighboring unit’s draw can suffer too. That’s a carbon monoxide risk that doesn’t stop at the property line, and it’s one of the first things Wendell checks when he inspects any attached home in the neighborhood.
Brooklyn’s freeze-thaw cycle does real damage here. Water gets into hairline cracks in brick and mortar, freezes, expands, and widens the crack. Repeat that a few hundred times over a decade and you get spalled brick faces and failing joints. Add the salt-laden air that drifts in from New York Harbor and the exterior masonry takes a beating year after year. The heating season in Borough Park runs roughly October through April, and the smart time to schedule a cleaning is before the first serious cold snap, not after the first fire of the season.
There’s another factor here that no other neighborhood in Brooklyn shares at this scale. Borough Park is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States. That means scheduling a chimney sweep is not like booking an appointment anywhere else. Work stops for Shabbat from Friday sundown through Saturday night, and the Jewish calendar removes more than thirty days a year from normal scheduling windows: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Passover, and the rest. A sweep who doesn’t know this will show up when you can’t open the door. Wendell has worked around this calendar for decades, and he plans his Borough Park routes around it without ever making you explain why Tuesday works and Saturday doesn’t. Word travels fast in this community. A sweep who respects the calendar gets recommended. One who doesn’t gets talked about.
Pricing for Chimney Cleaning in Borough Park
Expect a standard single-flue cleaning and inspection to run $189 to $249. A multi-flue job on a two-family home usually falls between $249 and $329. If the chimney hasn’t been cleaned in years and there’s significant creosote buildup or a blockage, the price may run higher once we’re inside and see what we’re working with. Every quote is flat and upfront before a single tool comes off the truck. You’ll also want to know about standing offers: $40 off any repair over $200, a free second opinion on any competing written estimate, and 10% off for seniors and veterans, always.
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Service Area - Cities Near Borough Park
Beyond Borough Park, we regularly work in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Ridgewood, and Glendale. If you’re just outside the neighborhood, call and ask. The answer is probably yes.
Serving Borough Park, NY - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Borough Park area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Chimney Cleaning in Borough Park
A standard chimney sweep in Borough Park costs $189 to $249 for a single flue, with multi-flue row house jobs running $249 to $329 depending on condition and buildup. Call (516) 289-9316 for an exact quote, estimates are free.
You’ll see the camera footage yourself before anyone recommends a liner. In Borough Park’s pre-1950 homes, cracked terra-cotta liners are genuinely common, but Wendell will tell you plainly when a liner can wait another season. If he wouldn’t do it in his own house, he won’t recommend it for yours. Call (516) 289-9316 and ask for the camera before you agree to anything.
Once a year, burn or no burn. Chimneys break in the off-season too, and an annual visit catches small problems before they become expensive ones. In attached row houses with shared stacks, the annual check matters even more.
Yes. We schedule around Shabbat and the full Jewish holiday calendar without making you explain a thing. Wendell has been serving Borough Park’s Orthodox community for years and plans routes around the calendar as a matter of course. Just tell the person on the phone what works for you.
Creosote builds up, and creosote is fuel. A chimney fire can crack a liner and spread heat through a party wall into the neighbor’s home. Even without a fire, a blocked flue can push carbon monoxide back into the house. In attached row houses, the risk is never just yours. Annual cleaning is the cheapest insurance against all of it. Call (516) 289-9316 to book before the heating season fills the calendar.
Call Top Hat Chimney in Borough Park
If you live in Borough Park and haven’t had your chimney looked at in over a year, call before the first real freeze. You’ll get a live person on the phone, an honest price, and a sweep who knows this neighborhood’s chimneys as well as you know your own block. Call (516) 289-9316 for a free estimate.
Written by Wendell Pike, Owner at Top Hat Chimney, serving Brooklyn and surrounding communities since 1999.
What happens when you call
- 1A real person answersNo phone trees - talk to a local chimney cleaning pro.
- 2You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched. No surprises.
- 3We come out and measureLicensed & insured, at a time that suits you - the visit and the quote are both free.
- 4You get the price in writingLine-itemed, yours to keep, and nothing starts until you say go.
What Borough Park Customers Say
"Gave me the photos from inside the flue on a memory stick along with the invoice. I have never had a trade hand me evidence before."
- Priscilla Ng"Honest work and a fair price. The masonry repair took longer than the two weeks he first said because of the weather, which I understand, but I would have liked being told rather than having to ask."
- Isaiah Brantley"Turns up in the hat, which the children thought was the best thing that had ever happened, and left the hearth cleaner than he found it."
- Josefina Aranda