Chimney service in Little Silver, NJ

Chimney Repair is priced from $350, scoped once our inspection finds what's actually wrong — resealing a crown costs far less than rebuilding a stack. Chimney Sweep runs $179–$399, and on the borough's smaller number of older houses that sweep sometimes turns up a clay-tile liner sized differently than a modern factory-built one.

Homes closest to the river tend to take a little longer to look over, simply because there's more moisture working into the masonry there than on a block set back from the water. The on-site inspection is $99 plus tax, deducted in full from the quote if you approve the work.

Gas Fireplace Service, $150–$400, covers cleaning the burner, checking ignition, and confirming the flue vents and seals properly — whether the unit sits in a newer prefabricated firebox or an older masonry opening.

Dryer Vent Cleaning runs $89–$250, priced mainly by how far the duct has to travel to reach open air and how many turns it makes along the way; an addition built onto an older home sometimes stretches that run further than a straightforward ranch layout would.

Shrewsbury Township gave up this stretch of land in 1923, when Little Silver became its own borough — meaning most of the houses standing here today, and most of their chimneys, are products of the century since, not of an earlier era. Ranches and capes from the decades that followed make up the bulk of what we work on.

The town's real outlier is the Parker Homestead: New Jersey sources point to it as one of the state's oldest surviving houses, built around 1725 and now owned by the borough. It's a genuine piece of local history, not a stand-in for what a typical Little Silver chimney looks like — most jobs here involve 20th-century masonry or a clay-tile flue, with an actual 18th-century hearth being the rare exception.

Search the National Register of Historic Places for Little Silver and one listing comes up: the borough's own train station, individually added on June 22, 1984 — a sandstone building with a slate roof, designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Monmouth County's full register carries no residential historic district that covers the town's houses.

Practically, that means an ordinary home's exterior chimney or masonry work isn't shown to need a historic-commission sign-off — it goes through the standard New Jersey Uniform Construction Code permit process, same as any other repair in the county. We pull that permit before starting; we just aren't scoping around a landmark review most homeowners here will never run into.