Chimney Service in Camden County

Camden County's older towns sit close to Philadelphia. Collingswood has 49 percent of its homes from before 1940, according to the Census Bureau's 2024 survey, and its median home dates to 1941. In Camden city, 38 percent of homes predate 1940 and 53 percent are row homes. Haddonfield, where the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in North America was dug up in 1858, became in 1971 the second New Jersey town, after Cape May, to set up a historic preservation district.

Cherry Hill and Voorhees are newer. Only 4 percent of Cherry Hill homes predate 1940, and the median home dates to 1968, mostly ranches, split-levels and colonials. Across the county, 77 percent of homes heat with gas. In the old towns, that gas often vents through a masonry chimney built long before modern furnaces, with an old clay liner or none at all. Cracked tile and open joints let exhaust reach the brick and, sometimes, the house.

Collingswood and Haddonfield: old unlined flues

The New Jersey fire code says an unlined masonry chimney with open mortar joints that could let smoke or gases into the house shall be repaired or relined. Prewar chimneys in Collingswood and Haddonfield can fit that description. A stainless liner typically runs $1,500 to $5,000 and a cast-in-place liner $2,000 to $7,000. In Haddonfield's historic district, check with the town before any visible change to a chimney.

Camden row homes and Cherry Hill ranches

Row-home chimneys in Camden often sit on the party wall and serve a gas furnace or water heater. Loose top bricks and missing caps are common; rebuilding the top few courses typically runs $1,000 to $3,500. In Cherry Hill, the 1960s chimneys we see most need crowns, flashing and liners for new furnaces. A furnace or water-heater liner typically runs $625 to $2,250, and New Jersey's F-370 chimney verification comes first.