Bellevue, King County
Masonry repair on a Bellevue chimney starts at $475, which covers a crown rebuild or a limited stretch of repointing. Larger areas of tuckpointing, replaced brick or a full crown on a wide multi-flue stack cost more, and the quote lists each piece separately. The aim is always the same: a stack that sheds water instead of soaking it up.
Typical investment
From $475
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The same crew, the same written quote — for Bellevue homes.
Level 1 or Level 2 inspection, with a camera scan where warranted
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Complete sweep of the flue and firebox, protected by drop cloths and HEPA filtration
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Restoration of brick, mortar joints and firebox
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A stainless-steel or ceramic liner run the full height of the flue
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A stainless cap fitted to your flue's exact dimensions
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Cleaning of the burner, pilot and valve assembly
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Brick chimneys in Bellevue are mostly a single-family story. They stand on houses in Lake Hills and Woodridge, on the larger homes of Somerset and Bridle Trails, and on the older lots of West Bellevue. Some were finished with a thin mortar wash on top rather than a true crown, and the joints near the top take the worst of the weather.
Bellevue's housing is split almost down the middle. The state's 2020 housing base shows 32,823 single-unit homes and 31,860 units in buildings of two or more, which is why so much of our masonry work happens on one side of that line only.
A condo with a direct-vent gas fireplace has no masonry stack to repoint: the unit exhausts through a sealed metal vent that ends at a wall or on the roof. For those owners, a mason is the wrong call, and we will point you toward a gas service instead.
Every masonry repair (crown / repointing) we do in Bellevue includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowWhat we find on the typical Bellevue stack: a crown cracked through in several places, sandy mortar in the top few courses, and brick faces that have spalled where water froze behind them on the odd cold night. Fixing the crown without the joints just moves the leak. We repoint what is soft, replace brick that is failing and pour or form a new crown with a drip edge.
Both burn ban stages carry one exception: a wood device may still be used when it is the home's only adequate source of heat, and at Stage 1 that requires an approved exemption. Households relying on it burn through the darkest weeks, when a failing crown is under the most rain.
For those homes, masonry repair is not cosmetic. Book it in the dry months so the chimney is sound before the agency starts calling bans.
Unreinforced brick does not flex. When the 2001 Nisqually earthquake shook the region, a survey from Bremerton to Mercer Island counted 1,556 damaged chimneys out of about 60,000, with the worst damage along the Seattle fault zone, the same fault the state maps beneath Bellevue.
Weak joints are where a masonry stack gives first, so repointing is also a chance to look for older cracks. If the chimney has been through felt shaking, we recommend a Level 2 inspection before any masonry quote, as CSIA does.
We go up and check crown, joints and brick course by course, marking what needs replacing and what only needs repointing.
The quote separates the crown, the repointing and any brick replacement, each with photos and a price.
Joints are ground to a sound depth and refilled, damaged brick is replaced, and the crown is rebuilt to project past the brick.
The new work is left to cure, then photographed. We note anything that should be watched over the next winter.
What this work is quoted at for Bellevue homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Bellevue | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Masonry Repair (Crown / Repointing) | From $475 | Crown work, repointing and tuckpointing by surface area |
| 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 $1,895 | Full-length stainless liner, sized to the appliance |
| Chimney Repair | From $425 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Bellevue. 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.
Western Washington's wet season opens in October and peaks in winter, and air in January typically holds 78 to 87 percent relative humidity. Brick and mortar exposed to that for months never fully dry out.
CSIA recommends a crown that extends about two inches beyond every side of the chimney, so water drips off rather than running down the joints. It is the single detail we rebuild most carefully on a Bellevue stack.
Bellevue is the Eastside's largest city and a major regional job center between Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish, on Lake Washington, with a mix of mid-century neighborhoods, older established homes and dense new construction downtown. We work every part of it — Downtown, Crossroads, Factoria, Newport, Somerset, Bridle Trails included.
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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.
From $475. A new crown or a small area of repointing sits near that figure; extensive tuckpointing or brick replacement is priced on the quote after we survey the stack.
Mortar needs a dry window to cure, so we plan exterior masonry around the forecast and do most of it between spring and early fall. Emergency work to stop an active leak is handled as a temporary fix until then.
We source the closest brick available and match mortar color and hardness to the original. A perfect match on seventy-year-old brick is not always possible, and we say so before starting.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
