Level 1 sweep and inspection to the NFPA 211 annual standard - flue, crown, cap, and flashing checked and photographed
Chimney sweep logs do not sweep chimneys. They loosen some creosote - which then falls where a brush and vacuum still have to collect it.
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Chimney cleaning in Franklin Square runs $149 to $289 for a standard sweep and inspection, and because most homes here still run their oil or gas burners deep into April, the work doesn’t stop after the holidays. Top Hat Chimney is built around a simple promise: the price Wendell Pike quotes on the phone is the price on the invoice, the sweep who shows up lives in the same county you do, and the job is backed by a 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. Call (516) 963-1068 and a real person answers – it may be Wendell himself. We serve the whole Franklin Square area, from Rath Park up toward the Northern State Parkway curve and across Hempstead Turnpike’s commercial spine.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Why Franklin Square Homeowners Choose Top Hat Chimney
Ask anyone on your street. That’s how most of our Franklin Square work finds us. A neighbor off Fenworth Boulevard mentions the chimney guy who actually picked up the phone, and within a week we’re standing in three kitchens between Dogwood and Hyacinth, shaking hands and telling people the truth about their flues. Wendell Pike founded this company in 1999 and still puts his name on the work. Not a franchise that rotated in last spring. Not a call center routing a stranger to your door. A local, owner-operated sweep with a published license number, background-checked crew, and a habit of running into customers at the King Kullen or the Franklin Square Street Fair. We show up in uniform, on time, with a real arrival window – and if that window slips, you’ll get a call before you wonder where we are.
Franklin Square families tend to be direct, and they’ve earned the right to be. A lot of them got burned by a national outfit that quoted one number over the phone and produced a very different one on the doorstep. We don’t play that game. The price you hear first is the price you’ll see at the bottom of the invoice. And if the work isn’t right, one call brings us back – that’s the 90-Day Done Right Promise, stamped on every job.
Chimney Cleaning Services We Offer in Franklin Square
Chimney Cleaning & Sweep
A Franklin Square chimney cleaning removes creosote, soot, and debris from the flue, smoke chamber, and firebox, then finishes with an inspection you can actually understand because you’ll see the camera footage yourself. Oil flues that sat dirty for years need a different hand than a wood fireplace that got one season of fires – we know the difference and clean accordingly. Learn more about our chimney cleaning & sweep in Franklin Square.
Chimney Repair
When mortar joints fail or bricks spall, the fix has to match the chimney’s age and the way Nassau County weather hits it. Wendell and his crew handle everything from repointing and smoke chamber parging to full brick replacement, and every repair starts with the same question: what exactly is failing, and can the camera show you why? Learn more about our chimney repair in Franklin Square.
Fireplace Services
Gas logs, dampers that stick, fireboxes that leak smoke into the living room on a cold Saturday – fireplace trouble in Franklin Square usually gets worse the longer it’s ignored. We service gas and wood-burning fireplaces, replace dampers, and rebuild fireboxes so the fire stays where it belongs. Learn more about our fireplace services in Franklin Square.
Chimney Cap & Crown
An uncapped flue in Franklin Square is an open invitation to squirrels, starlings, and every nor’easter that blows in from the Sound. We install Chimney Cap & Crown - Franklin Square solutions including multi-flue caps, rebuild cracked crowns, and seal the chase top so water stops finding its way down the masonry and into your walls.
Chimney Liner & Rebuild
Sixty and eighty-year-old terra-cotta liners in Franklin Square often show cracks, gaps, or sulfur damage from decades of oil exhaust. We install and service DuraFlex and HeatShield liners, and when the structure itself is too far gone, we rebuild it properly – never with a patch job that fails in two winters. We also work with Gelco in Franklin Square and Olympia Chimney products where the job calls for them.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Franklin Square
We know Franklin Square block by block – the Capes along Madison and Nassau Boulevard, the ranches tucked near Rath Park, the split-levels up by the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District line. It’s a dense, close-knit community, and our typical response time is fast because we’re already working in your neighborhood most weeks.
- Rath Park area
- Fenworth Boulevard corridor
- Hempstead Turnpike commercial district
- Northern State Parkway south side
- Munson/Dogwood section
Why Franklin Square’s Climate & Housing Affect Chimney Cleaning
Franklin Square’s housing stock is almost entirely post-WWII Cape Cods and modest ranches built in the 1945-1965 suburban boom, and Long Island has one of the highest concentrations of heating-oil-dependent homes in the United States. That means most of these 60-80-year-old masonry chimneys served oil burner flues, not wood fireplaces. Oil flue chimneys accumulate sulfurous, acidic soot that attacks terra-cotta liners differently than wood creosote, and decades of deferred relining is the defining challenge for chimney professionals here. Nassau County’s maritime weather makes it worse – freeze-thaw cycles and salt-laden air work on the mortar joints every winter, and nor’easters blow water horizontally into crowns and open joints. If your chimney hasn’t been inspected since the last administration, there’s a good chance the liner is telling you something you don’t want to hear. We’ll show you the camera footage and tell you plainly what’s urgent, what can wait, and what doesn’t need doing at all.
There’s one more Franklin Square-specific quirk we see constantly: because so many homes switched from oil heat to gas over the past two decades, plenty of local chimneys now have abandoned, uncapped oil flues sitting inside a shared masonry stack, hidden from view and slowly funneling moisture and animals into the structure. Unless the sweep knows to ask about your heating history, that flue never gets looked at. We ask.
Pricing for Chimney Cleaning in Franklin Square
We believe in telling you the number before a single tool comes off the truck. Here’s what you can expect to pay for chimney work in Franklin Square:
- Standard chimney sweep & inspection: $149-$289, depending on flue condition and access
- Level 2 camera inspection (when needed): $125-$250
- Chimney cap replacement: $95-$350 for typical Franklin Square caps
- Crown repair / reseal: $300-$700 for standard two-flue crowns
- Full terra-cotta-to-stainless reline: $2,800-$6,000 for typical Cape Cod setups
Prices are honest and upfront. No trip charge inside our service county. Seniors and veterans always get 10% off. And if someone else quoted less, bring us the written estimate – Wendell will give you a free second opinion, whether that means matching the work or telling you it doesn’t need doing.
Service Area - Cities Near Franklin Square
Top Hat Chimney also works regularly in the surrounding Nassau County communities where Franklin Square families have cousins and coworkers: West Hempstead, New Hyde Park, Garden City, and Floral Park. Same crew. Same 90-Day Done Right Promise. Same direct phone line.
Serving Franklin Square, NY - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Franklin Square area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Chimney Cleaning in Franklin Square
A standard chimney sweep in Franklin Square costs $149 to $289 at Top Hat Chimney, and that includes a full inspection. The final number depends on how dirty the flue is, how many flues you have, and whether the chimney is accessible from a standard ladder or needs a taller setup. We give you the exact price before we start, and it doesn’t change at the door. Call (516) 963-1068 for a free estimate.
Once a year, burn or no burn. Chimneys break in the off-season too. That’s not a slogan – it’s the truth. In Franklin Square, where oil flues produce acidic soot and maritime moisture works on old mortar every winter, an annual sweep and inspection catches liner cracks before they become full relines and water stains before they become mold. If you burn wood regularly, twice a year isn’t overcautious. Call (516) 963-1068 and we’ll schedule it.
You should never take a liner recommendation without camera proof. At Top Hat Chimney, you’ll see the footage yourself – we don’t recommend a reline unless the terra-cotta is cracked, spalled, or so sulfur-eaten that it can’t hold a draft safely. In Franklin Square’s older Capes, it’s genuinely common to find 60-year-old liners that need replacement. But if yours doesn’t, Wendell will tell you it can wait. That’s why we offer a free second opinion on any written estimate from a competitor. Call (516) 963-1068 and we’ll show you the camera.
First-degree creosote is a brush job. Third-degree is a glaze – catch it early. In Franklin Square, skipping years of cleaning means soot and creosote keep building, moisture keeps working on the mortar, and small liner cracks become gaps that let heat reach the framing around your chimney. That’s how chimney fires start, and how carbon monoxide finds a path back into the house. The inexpensive sweep is the one you book this year. Call (516) 963-1068 and get it done before the next burn season.
Yes, and in Franklin Square we ask about this on every call because it’s extremely common around here. That abandoned oil flue keeps pulling in moisture and animals, and unless it’s properly cleaned and capped, it’ll keep doing damage inside the shared masonry stack. We’ll clean and cap it, or help you decide if the whole flue should be sealed off. Call (516) 963-1068 and tell us about your heating history – we know exactly what to look for.
Call Top Hat Chimney for Chimney Cleaning in Franklin Square
You’ll get a live person on the phone, a straight answer on pricing, and a sweep who treats your house like the 60-year-old Cape Cod it is – with respect and plain talk. Wendell Pike has been doing this since 1999, and his name is on every job we finish. Whether you’re off Hempstead Turnpike, down by Rath Park, or tucked into the side streets near the Northern State, we’re close. Call (516) 963-1068 today for a free estimate, and find out what’s actually going on inside your chimney.
Written by Wendell Pike, Owner at Top Hat Chimney, serving Franklin Square and surrounding Nassau County.
What happens when you call
- 1A real person answersNo phone trees - talk to a local chimney cleaning pro.
- 2You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched. No surprises.
- 3We come out and measureLicensed & insured, at a time that suits you - the visit and the quote are both free.
- 4You get the price in writingLine-itemed, yours to keep, and nothing starts until you say go.
What Franklin Square Customers Say
"Wendell has swept our chimney every autumn for six years now. He knows the flue better than I know it and he tells me when it does not need doing, which is not something most trades will admit to."
- Eleanor Prescott"He repointed the crown and waterproofed the stack, and two winters on there is not a damp mark on the ceiling where there used to be one every February."
- Harold Vance"Gave me the photos from inside the flue on a memory stick along with the invoice. I have never had a trade hand me evidence before."
- Priscilla Ng