Gig Harbor, Pierce County
Chimney sealing in Gig Harbor runs $320 to $795 for most stacks. The product is a breathable water repellent, brushed or sprayed onto clean brick and mortar, so rain beads off the face while moisture already inside the masonry can still dry out. It pays off on sound masonry. On a stack with open joints or a split crown, the cracks get fixed first; otherwise the sealer only hides them for a season.
Typical investment
$320–$795
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$99 plus tax, deducted when you approve the repair
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Gig Harbor 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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Loose or damaged brick, open joints and firebox panels repaired
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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
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Along the roads that follow the harbor shore, plenty of chimneys have open water on one side and tall firs on the other. Up on the peninsula, in the neighborhoods built over the last few decades, some stacks are framed chases clad in siding rather than brick, and siding is not something we coat with masonry repellent. So the first question on any Gig Harbor sealing call is simply what your chimney is made of.
Gig Harbor is both a bay off Puget Sound and the town around its shore, on the peninsula you reach from Tacoma over the Narrows Bridge on SR 16. The town grew from the water: a Croatian fishing community settled the west side of the harbor and the north end was more Scandinavian, long before incorporation on July 12, 1946.
A chimney on a waterfront or view lot here stands in the open, and wind off the water pushes rain sideways into its upper courses. Those upper courses on the weather side are where we look first for saturated brick, and they are usually the faces that gain most from a repellent.
Oregon State University Extension explains that in the moist Pacific Northwest, roof moss holds soil and debris that stay wet, and can lift shingles until water gets to the layers underneath.
Around a chimney, that mat piles up on the uphill side. Washington's residential code requires a cricket, a small ridge that splits the flow, behind chimneys wider than 30 inches that do not sit on the ridge. A repellent does not replace one, so we note whether your roof has it.
Every chimney waterproofing we do in Gig Harbor includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowRain finds its way into a chimney here through a short list of places: porous brick on the weather side, hairline cracks across the crown, and mortar joints that have lost their face. A repellent answers the first. The other two need a repair, then the repellent. We tell you which case you are in before anything gets sprayed, and if your brick is shedding water fine on its own, we say so.
We look at every face of the stack, the crown and the joints, and tell you whether sealing alone will do anything.
Open joints and crown cracks are quoted separately and done first, because a repellent cannot bridge a gap.
The brick is washed of moss, dirt and bloom, then given time to dry so the repellent can soak in rather than sit on top.
Two passes of breathable repellent on the exposed faces, followed by before-and-after photos and a note on when to check it again.
NFPA 211, the national standard for chimneys, lists a weather event likely to have damaged a chimney among the reasons for a Level II inspection. CSIA's written procedure for a Level II includes scanning the flue with a video camera.
For a sealing job, that camera answers one question: has water been getting past the brick into the flue or the smoke chamber? A repellent on the outside will not fix that, and we would rather find it before the sealer goes on.
What this work is quoted at for Gig Harbor homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Gig Harbor | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Waterproofing | $320–$795 | Breathable sealer — reapplied every 3–5 years in this climate |
| 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 Repair | From $375 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Gig Harbor. 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.
Gig Harbor is a harbor town incorporated in 1946, settled early by a Croatian fishing community on the west side and Scandinavians at the north end, on the Gig Harbor bay, on Puget Sound, with mostly newer homes — a median build year of 1998, fewer than a quarter built before 1980.
Gig HarborPierce County, WA · 47.329, -122.581
Before and after
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.
Most stacks fall between $320 and $795. Height, the number of faces exposed and how much cleaning the brick needs set where yours lands, and you get the figure in writing first.
People use both words for the same job: a water repellent on the brick and mortar. What matters is that it is breathable. A coating that traps vapor can make a wet chimney worse.
It wears off gradually, faster on the faces that take the most weather. Plan on having it looked at every few years, and reapplied when water stops beading on the brick.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
