Fife, Pierce County
Chimney repair in Fife starts at $375 for a small, contained fix, and the quote grows with the size of the problem, not with guesswork. Before we touch a trowel you get photos of what is wrong and a written price for putting it right. Nothing is added on the day without your say.
Typical investment
From $375
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Fife homes.
Level 1 or Level 2 as needed; Level 2 includes a camera run through the entire flue
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Top-to-bottom brushing of flue and firebox under drop cloths, with a HEPA vacuum pulling the dust
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A full-length stainless-steel or cast liner, firebox to chimney top
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A stainless cap sized to your actual flue dimensions
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Burner, pilot assembly and valve cleaned and adjusted
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Crown patched, or recast entirely if it can't be saved
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Fife's chimneys split into two families. A minority are masonry, mostly on the older farm-era and mid-century houses; census data put about one home in ten here before 1960. The rest are framed chases wrapped in siding, with a metal flue inside and a sheet-metal top, the usual build on newer homes, which is most of Fife. Brick needs mortar and crown work. A chase needs its top pan, seams and siding kept tight. We repair both and quote them differently.
Wood is the chief heat source in approximately 1.2% of occupied homes in Fife, compared with about 1.9% countywide, in five-year Census estimates for 2020 to 2024.
In those homes a damaged chimney is not an item for next summer, because the fire keeps going all winter. If the damage is tied to an old stove, a repair visit is also a good time to weigh swapping it: the regional clean air agency pays $500 to Pierce County owners who deliver a still-working old stove or insert for recycling.
In 2012, Washington Ecology notes, the Tacoma-Pierce County area stood alone in the state as the one place still failing the federal fine particle standard. The EPA had placed it on that list three years earlier.
Getting off the list, in March 2015, took stricter stove rules and firmer burn ban enforcement, and the area now lives under a maintenance plan meant to keep it clean. For a Fife homeowner that is the practical backdrop to a repair: a well-drafting chimney and a clean-burning stove are part of how the county holds on to that result.
Every chimney repair we do in Fife includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowWhat breaks here is rarely dramatic. A chase top that has rusted through lets rain run down the inside of the framing; a cracked crown lets it soak the brick below. Either one can go unnoticed for a season or two in a place where rain arrives most weeks from fall to spring. By the time a stain shows on the ceiling, the wood or mortar has usually been wet for a while.
Fife's rainy half of the year is a long one: WeatherSpark marks it from about October 9 through May 2, with November the peak at roughly 8 inches.
That is why most repairs we quote here start at the top. Beyond fixing what is broken, we check the stack against Washington's height rule: masonry must rise three feet or more above the roof it passes through and top anything within ten feet by two feet. A stack rebuilt shorter than that is a stack that will draft poorly.
We trace water or damage back to its source, since a stain inside often starts several feet away on the roof.
You get a scope, photos and a fixed quote. The work waits until you have read it and agreed.
Brick, mortar or chase materials are chosen to match what is there, so the repair does not stand out from the street.
The site is cleaned, and you get photos of the finished repair for your records or your insurer.
What this work is quoted at for Fife homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Fife | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Repair | From $375 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$449 | 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 Cap Installation | $265–$750 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Fife. 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.
Fife is a city incorporated in 1957 on farmland just south of the Port of Tacoma, along I-5, with mostly newer homes — a median build year of 2000, about 22% built before 1980.
FifePierce County, WA · 47.239, -122.357
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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.
It starts at $375 for a small, contained job such as a few bricks or a local patch. Larger work, like rebuilding a section above the roof, is quoted after we have seen it.
Yes. Many Fife homes have one. The usual repairs are a new or resealed chase top, tightened siding seams and flashing where the chase meets the roof.
If the cause is unclear, yes. The inspection is $99 plus tax, and if you approve the repair quote we take that amount off it.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
