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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AfterFast, Reliable Chimney Liner & Rebuild Across Sellersville
Chimney liner and rebuild work in Sellersville runs $1,800 to $9,500 depending on whether we’re dropping a new stainless liner into an existing flue or tearing down and rebuilding a shared masonry stack on a pre-1920 row home. Most liner replacements take one day; full rebuilds run two to five days. We’ve worked the tight streets and historic blocks of Sellersville long enough to know that the chimney behind your house doesn’t act like the chimneys in Perkasie or Telford, and it sure doesn’t act like the ones in the new developments. Call (484) 600-2977 and Wendell or one of his crew will talk you through what you actually have before you spend a dime.
Why Top Hat Chimney Is Sellersville’s Go-To for Liner and Rebuild Work
Wendell Pike started Top Hat Chimney in 1999 and has been inside more Sellersville flues than he can count. We’re locally owned and owner-operated. Wendell puts his name and license number on every job, and he’s the guy you’ll run into at the hardware store on a Saturday. When you call, a live person answers. Around the clock. It might be Wendell himself.
Sellersville homeowners deal with a very specific animal: pre-1920 stone and brick row homes with shared central chimneys, original clay tile flues, and decades of retrofits layered on top. A national franchise that rotates a new crew through every spring won’t know that. Our folks do. Every job comes with the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not right, one call brings Wendell back, no charge.
We don’t do bait-and-switch pricing. The number you hear on the phone is the number on the invoice. We offer a free second opinion on any written estimate, $40 off any repair over $200, no trip charge inside the county, and 10% off for seniors and veterans. Always.
Our Chimney Liner & Rebuild Services in Sellersville
Stainless Steel Liner
For Sellersville row homes with unlined or clay-tile flues, a stainless steel liner is the workhorse fix. We install Chimney Liner & Rebuild systems sized to your actual appliance, not to the original coal-era masonry. That matters on blocks like East Park Avenue where a gas insert venting into an oversized 19th-century flue cools the exhaust too fast and drops creosote or condensation back down the stack.
Flexible Liner
When the existing masonry flue has bends, offsets, or tight clearances inside an old Sellersville chimney, a flexible liner snakes through without opening walls. We use Gelco and Olympia Chimney liners when the situation calls for flex. The point isn’t the material, it’s the draft. An undersized liner in a shared stack causes backdrafting that soots up limestone facades a block away.
Liner Replacement
If a Sellersville house still has the original clay tiles from when the oil burner went in, those tiles are often oversized for modern gas appliances and undersized for modern wood stoves. They crack from freeze-thaw spalling. Water gets in. The liner fails. We pull the old tile and drop a correctly sized replacement. It’s usually a one-day job and you’ll see the camera footage before and after.
Partial Rebuild
Not every Sellersville chimney needs a full teardown. When the damage is mostly above the roofline, a partial rebuild from the crown down solves it. On exposed stone chimneys around the historic downtown core, spalled mortar joints and cracked crowns are common after a few Upper Bucks winters. Catch it before water reaches the liner and a partial rebuild stays partial.
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.
Trusted Brands We Service in Sellersville
We install and service liners and components from Gelco, Olympia Chimney, Famco, and Copperfield, and we keep the common parts stocked so a Sellersville job doesn’t stall waiting on a truck from out of state. If you have a DuraFlex liner that another company put in and it’s not drafting right, we’ll inspect it, show you the camera footage, and tell you straight whether it needs replacing or whether something else is going on. Your flue doesn’t care how the fire looks. It cares how it breathes.
Common Chimney Liner & Rebuild Problems We See in Sellersville Homes
- Shared flues in attached row homes. On blocks where two or three houses share one central masonry chimney, a neighbor’s gas appliance can vent into a stack that was never lined for it. Exhaust backdrafts through the adjacent flue and leaves soot staining on historic limestone that homeowners mistake for plain dirt.
- Oversized clay tile liners from the coal era. Oil-to-gas retrofits throughout upper Bucks County left original clay tiles in place. Those tiles are too big for a modern gas insert, so exhaust cools, condenses, and eats the liner from the inside. We see it in Sellersville at a rate the newer subdivisions never will.
- Freeze-thaw spalling on exposed stone chimneys. Upper Bucks winters swing above and below freezing for months. Mortar joints and crowns on older Sellersville chimneys crack, water seeps in, and by the time a Level 2 inspection catches it, the liner has already rusted or collapsed.
- Creosote glaze from heavy seasonal burning. Cold, damp winters mean fireplaces and wood stoves get run hard here. Burn a cord or more without a sweep and you’re asking for third-degree glazed creosote. First-degree creosote is a brush job. Third-degree is a glaze, catch it early.
Pricing for Chimney Liner & Rebuild in Sellersville, PA
Here’s what Sellersville homeowners can expect to pay, straight from our book:
- Stainless steel liner installation: $1,800 to $3,400 depending on flue length and whether scaffolding is needed on a tight row home roof.
- Flexible liner installation: $1,600 to $2,800, common for offset flues in older cape cods and ranches on the borough edges.
- Liner replacement (pulling old clay tile): $2,200 to $4,100, higher when the old tile has collapsed and needs to be broken out piece by piece.
- Partial rebuild above the roofline: $3,500 to $6,000 depending on how many flues and how much stonework is exposed on East Park Avenue or Main Street.
- Full chimney rebuild with shared stack work: $7,000 to $9,500, especially on attached pre-1920 row homes where we’re coordinating with a neighbor’s vents.
Scaffolding, roof pitch, and whether the chimney is on a shared wall all move the number. We give you the price before a single tool comes off the truck. Call (484) 600-2977 for a free estimate and we’ll scope it with the camera, no obligation.
We Also Serve Cities Near Sellersville
We run crews into Perkasie, Telford, Franconia, and Hilltown regularly. The housing stock changes once you leave the borough, but the work doesn’t. If you’re in a 1960s ranch in Franconia or a stone farmhouse outside Hilltown, we’ll give you the same straight answer we give in Sellersville.
Serving Sellersville, PA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Sellersville 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 - Chimney Liner & Rebuild in Sellersville
We camera the entire stack first and map which flue serves which appliance. That tells us whether your liner can be replaced without touching the neighbor’s flue, or whether the shared smoke chamber needs cleaning and repair as one unit. In attached Sellersville rows, we coordinate directly with the neighbor when the work crosses the property line. Nothing is recommended without the camera footage and a plain-English verdict. Call (484) 600-2977 and we’ll walk through what you’re looking at.
That staining is almost always a draft failure, not dirt. When an original 19th-century flue is oversized for a modern gas appliance, the exhaust cools before it exits and spills back down the masonry, carrying soot that deposits on the limestone. In Sellersville row homes, it can also be a neighbor’s appliance backdrafting through a shared stack. The fix is a correctly sized liner, and we’ll show you the before and after on camera. Call (484) 600-2977 for an inspection.
Usually no. Cracked or collapsed clay tile cannot be patched; it gets pulled and replaced with a stainless liner sized for the current appliance. On some Sellersville chimneys we see tiles that are still intact but oversized, which causes condensation rather than failure. In those cases a liner is still the right call because the draft problem never goes away. We’ll tell you straight whether repair is even worth attempting. Call (484) 600-2977 to have us look.
Freeze-thaw spalling is the biggest structural threat to chimneys in upper Bucks County, and it hits Sellersville’s exposed stone and brick stacks hard. Water works into micro-cracks, freezes, expands, and widens the crack. Over a few winters, a crown or mortar joint fails and water reaches the liner, where it rusts steel or erodes clay. Annual cleaning is when we catch this early. Once a year, burn or no burn. Chimneys break in the off-season too. Call (484) 600-2977 for a sweep and inspection.
We tear down to the point of sound masonry, rebuild the stack with new flue liners sized for each appliance, install a proper crown, and often add a cap. On a shared Sellersville stack, the neighbor’s flue integrity matters, because rebuilding our side only to have their side backdraft into yours doesn’t solve the problem. We coordinate the whole thing. Expect $7,000 to $9,500 for a full rebuild on a shared pre-1920 stack. Call (484) 600-2977 and we’ll scope it with the camera first.
Call Top Hat Chimney for Liner and Rebuild Work in Sellersville
If you live in Sellersville and you’re wondering whether your liner is shot, or whether that staining on the limestone is dirt or a draft failure, call us. We’ll send Wendell or one of his crew to put a camera up your flue and tell you the truth. If the work can wait, we’ll say so. If it can’t, you’ll get the price before we start and the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing when we finish. Call (484) 600-2977 for a free estimate. Ask anyone on your street.
Written by Wendell Pike, Owner at Top Hat Chimney, serving Sellersville since 1999.