Chimney Repair in Edison, NJ
Woodbridge Chimney Repair is a chimney repair company working in Edison, NJ, one of the towns we serve around Woodbridge. Sweeps, liners, leaks, crowns, flashing, repointing, and rebuilds, with the same crew on the roof from start to finish.
Edison was incorporated on March 17, 1870, as Raritan Township, formed from parts of Piscataway and Woodbridge Township, and took its present name on November 10, 1954, after Thomas Edison, whose main laboratory stood in the Menlo Park section. With 107,588 residents in the 2020 census it is the state's sixth-most-populous municipality, spread over 30.69 square miles that completely surround the borough of Metuchen.
Edison's housing mix by the census
Edison's houses are, on average, newer than Woodbridge Township's. The American Community Survey puts the median year built at 1975 against 1962 next door, and 56 percent of homes predate 1980, compared with 70 percent in Woodbridge. Only 6 percent date from 1939 or earlier. Fewer than half of housing units, 49 percent, are single-family detached, and owners occupy 61 percent of homes. The township counts dozens of sections and place names, from Clara Barton and Stelton to Menlo Park, Oak Tree, and New Dover.
That mix means the chimney on an Edison house may be a masonry stack on an older home or a factory-built fireplace flue in a framed chase on a newer one. Gas heats 83 percent of occupied homes and fuel oil only 2 percent, so most masonry flues now carry gas exhaust. When that exhaust vents into a clay flue sized for something larger, it condenses and wears the tile and mortar, and a camera run and a liner sized to the appliance settle the question.
Repairs we do in Edison
Common chimney repairs across Edison
Factory-built fireplaces and their chase covers
Many newer houses have a metal factory-built fireplace in a framed chase instead of a masonry chimney. The cover on top of the chase rusts and holds water, and the metal flue needs the same yearly check a masonry one does. Replacing a rusted cover keeps water out of the framing.
Conversion condensation eating original flue walls
Where an older house moved from oil to gas, the cooler, wetter exhaust of the new appliance can condense inside the original clay flue. The acidic moisture erodes tile and joint mortar quietly for years. Flue debris in the cleanout door is the tell, and a liner is the cure.
Crowns cracking with age
Crowns finished decades ago crack as they age. A crack starts hairline, wicks water with every rain, and widens each winter. Recasting the crown while the brick below is still sound keeps a one day job from becoming a rebuild.
Edison, the state's sixth most populous municipality, has a census median year built of 1975, newer than Woodbridge Township's 1962, and gas heats 83 percent of its homes.
Getting hold of us from Edison
Call us at (732) 466-7855 during working hours and you will get one of us, not a dispatcher.
Nearby
Close to Edison: chimney repair in Metuchen and chimney repair in Iselin. Every service and town is on the Woodbridge Chimney Repair home page, and flue cleaning has its own page: chimney sweep & cleaning in Woodbridge.