Chimney Repair, Sweep & Inspection in Gig Harbor, WA

Local Conditions

Chimney problems we see in Gig Harbor

The peninsula sits in the same wet regime measured at Sea-Tac: about 40.34 inches a year, roughly 73% of it from October through March. Winter lows average near 37°F and the region touches freezing about 60 days a year, so water pooled on a chase cover or sitting in a crown crack freezes at night and thaws by day through the winter. Sheet metal does not crack the way saturated brick does, but standing water rusts it through, and the rot underneath spreads unseen inside the chase.

Moss in the PNW flourishes in wet winters and springs and spreads fastest October through April on shaded, slow-drying surfaces; the fir and madrone cover on Gig Harbor's lots keeps the shaded side of a chase damp most of the year.

Gig Harbor's median home was built in 1998, the newest stock of any city on our route, driven by the 1990s–2010s subdivisions north of SR 16 in Harbor Hill and Gig Harbor North. Homes of that age typically have factory-built fireplaces: a metal flue inside a framed, sided chase topped with a sheet-metal cover. The small historic village on the harbor and the older homes on the peninsula roads and Fox Island typically have brick masonry chimneys.

So most of our calls here are rusted chase covers, rotted chase siding and cracked refractory panels, with crowns and repointing on the waterfront brick.

• Rusted, pooling chase covers on 1990s–2010s homes: chase cover replacement
• Rotted chase framing and siding at the roofline: chase rebuild
• Cracked refractory panels in prefab fireboxes: fireplace crack repair
• Cracked crowns on older waterfront brick: crown rebuild
• Leaks at the chase-to-roof flashing: flashing repair
• Creosote in wood-burning fireplaces: chimney sweep

Neighborhoods & Scheduling

Areas we cover in Gig Harbor

• Downtown waterfront and Finholm
• Uptown and Gig Harbor North
• Harbor Hill
• Artondale and Wollochet
• Rosedale and Crescent Valley
• Purdy
• Fox Island (via the Fox Island Bridge)

Scheduling & arrival in Gig Harbor

Gig Harbor is about 48 minutes from Renton across the Narrows, so we book peninsula days that combine Gig Harbor, Purdy and Fox Island, with University Place and west Tacoma on the way. Call 206-453-2045 with your area and whether the chimney is brick or a sided chase; we will give you the next peninsula date, and same-day is possible when a crew is already west of the bridge.