Honest good working local company. The amount they quoted me on the phone was the price I paid after the service was completed.
Chimney sweep and duct cleaning in Bernards Township, NJ
Bernards Township, most people’s Basking Ridge, is a planned trip out from the home base rather than a stop we make on the way to somewhere closer. It’s also the least likely Somerset township to have a real masonry chimney: more than half its housing went up in the 1980s and 90s alone, in named developments like The Hills and Spring Ridge, where the fireplace is almost always a factory-built unit inside a framed chase.
5.0from 38 Google reviews
The short answer
Sweeping still happens here, but on housing this new the more common call is a factory-built fireplace needing its chase and clearances checked, or a dryer vent routed further than a straight shot out the back wall.
What we find on Bernards jobs
Bernards is the county’s clearest post-1980 township: more than half its housing was built in the 1980s and 90s in a run of named developments, from The Hills to Spring Ridge to Society Hill, and another sixth arrived after 2000. On that stock the standing chimney is almost always a factory-built metal firebox inside a framed, sided chase, so the recurring finding is chase-cover condition and clearance to combustibles rather than mortar joints or a cracked flue tile. A large share of the housing is also attached or multi-family, townhouses and condos rather than standalone houses, which routes dryer exhaust further than a straight shot out the back wall, often up through a wall cavity to a roof or gable termination, where the state’s duct-length limit actually matters. The exception sits in two small historic pockets, Franklin Corners and Liberty Corner, plus the old Basking Ridge village core, where genuinely old masonry still stands among the newer stock.
Where the van goes in Bernards Township
- Basking Ridge
- Liberty Corner
- Lyons
- The Hills
- Franklin Corners
- West Millington
- Mount Horeb
- Madisonville
- Hardscrabble
- Stone House
- White Bridge
- Somerset Mills
Everything we do in Bernards Township
- Chimney sweepingCamera up first, brush second, photographs yours to keep
- Chimney inspectionLevel 1 or Level 2, and a report you can hand over
- Chimney repairCrown, cap, flashing, liner — whichever is letting water in
- Fireplace & stovePilots that will not hold, dampers that will not move
- Dryer vent cleaningLint out of the whole run, wall to hood
- Air duct cleaningThe honest answer, including when to skip it
- Duct repair & replacementCrushed, disconnected, or too far gone to clean
What Bloomfield homeowners say
5.0
38 reviews on Google
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Expert setup, high-powered vacuums, and absolutely no dust residue. Excellent work.
Water had been leaking around the chimney flashing, but the repair solved it completely. The crew sealed and reinforced the affected area with precision. Rain is no longer a concern. The workmanship looks strong and durable.
Questions from Bernards Township
Do you cover Basking Ridge specifically, or just Bernards Township as a whole?
Basking Ridge is the community, and Bernards Township is the municipal name it sits inside; they’re the same coverage area, so either way you reach us it’s the same service and the same schedule. Most of what people call Basking Ridge is the township’s older, denser core; the newer developments further out carry the township name more often.
Our development is from the 1980s. Is our fireplace even brick?
Probably not. More than half of Bernards’ housing, including most of the well-known developments like The Hills and Spring Ridge, was built in the 1980s and 90s, right when factory-built metal fireboxes had mostly replaced site-built brick fireplaces in new construction. A camera check confirms it either way, but the odds in a development from that decade favor a framed chase over a masonry stack.
We’re in a townhouse. Why does our dryer take three cycles to finish?
A long or awkward duct run is the first thing to check. Attached housing like yours often routes the dryer exhaust up through a wall cavity to a roof or gable vent instead of out the back, and New Jersey’s residential code caps how long that run can be. A duct that’s too long, has too many bends, or is clogged with lint will all produce the same slow-drying symptom.
Is Franklin Corners actually old, or just an old-sounding name?
It’s genuinely old. Franklin Corners and Liberty Corner are two small historic districts holding much of what little pre-1940 housing Bernards Township has, real masonry chimneys in a township where the newer developments almost never have one. If your address is in either district, a masonry inspection is the right starting point rather than a chase-and-clearance check.
Find us on Google
The Google listing the 5.0 rating comes from. A minute of reading confirms we’re a real outfit already working around Basking Ridge.