Chimney Sweep in Andover, NJ
Chimney sweep service in Andover, NJ for the old village houses along Route 206 and the lake and hillside homes spread across the township around them.
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An iron village with a township of lakes around it
Andover is two places with one name. The borough is a small village on Route 206 that grew up around an eighteenth-century iron forge, and its historic district still includes a stone grist mill from 1760. Andover Township surrounds it, a much larger area of hills, ponds and lake communities such as Lake Lenape and Lake Iliff.
The two have different chimneys. The village has tall, narrow brick stacks on houses that are well over a century old, often with more than one flue and with fireplaces that were closed up and later reopened. Out in the township, many homes heat with a wood stove through the winter, vented into a masonry chimney or a metal one.
Both kinds need the same thing from a sweep: a flue cleared from top to bottom and an honest look at what the brushing reveals.
Sweeping old village flues and stove chimneys
An old multi-flue stack takes care. Each flue is identified and swept on its own, because a brush sent down the wrong one can push soot into a room that has not seen a fire in fifty years.
For a wood stove, the connector pipe comes apart and is cleaned along with the chimney. That short run of pipe is where creosote gathers fastest, since it is the first place the smoke cools.
When the work is finished the firebox or stove is left clean, and you are told whether the liner, the cap and the crown are in good order.
Chimney services for Andover homes
Andover, New Jersey
Service reaches both the borough on Route 206 and the township around it, including the Lake Lenape and Lake Iliff areas. The map marks the area served. There is no office in Andover.