Snoqualmie, King County
In Snoqualmie, a chimney cap fitted by us comes to between $265 and $850. One standard flue under a stainless cap sets the low end. The high end is one lid over a group of flues, or a custom piece built for an unusual crown or chase. Size aside, a cap in this town earns its place three ways: rain stays out of the flue, so do animals and debris, and the screen holds sparks in.
Typical investment
$265–$850
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$99 plus tax, deducted when you approve the repair
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What we do
The same crew, the same written quote — for Snoqualmie homes.
Level 1 review of the accessible parts, stepped up to a Level 2 camera pass when those parts cannot settle the question
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The flue brushed along its full height with heads chosen for its shape and material
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An assessment in photos that tells weathering apart from structural failure
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Video scan and measurement of the flue before a liner is specified
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Burner, pilot assembly and igniter cleaned and tested
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Photos of the crown and of all four faces before work begins
Learn moreRanges shown for orientation — the exact figure is written up on-site, after the inspection.
Few towns in King County give a cap more to do. Snoqualmie sits at about 410 feet in the Cascade foothills, with the river on one side and forest on the others. WeatherSpark's land-cover summary puts trees at roughly 77 percent of the ground within two miles. Needles, cones and small branches travel on the wind, and an uncovered flue catches whatever falls. Birds and squirrels treat it the same way.
Through Snoqualmie's wetter season, WeatherSpark gives any single day a better than 36 percent chance of being a wet one. Even the driest month is not dry: the model shows about 1.0 inch of rain in July, and the Snoqualmie Falls cooperative station averaged 1.31 inches that month over its 1898 to 2016 record.
Without a cap, each of those showers ends up on the damper, on the smoke shelf, or on a stove's top plate. Rust, a stuck damper and a wet firebox floor follow. A cap is the least expensive part on the chimney and the one that spares the others.
Every chimney cap installation we do in Snoqualmie includes:
Smoke coming back into the room, or a smell that won't go? Book the inspection first.
Book nowFastening matters as much as the cap itself. The city's hazard annex calls high winds common in winter, with windstorm risk most frequent in October and November, and it recalls the storm of January 1, 2019 that left 100 residents without power. A cap that only grips the tile by friction can lift in a gust. We fix caps with screws or clamps and anchor wide lids at each corner. Snow is the other load: the annex mentions a 2018/2019 event that brought several feet.
Tile dimensions, crown width and the spacing between flues are taken by hand.
You see the choices that fit, single cap, shared lid or chase cover, each with its price.
Nests, leaves and anything lodged at the flue mouth come out before it is covered.
The cap is secured, the screen clearance above the outlet is verified, and the result is recorded.
Snoqualmie's hazard annex notes that 30 percent of Washington's 1,006 wildfires in 2019 were on the west side of the state, and that the city's neighborhoods meet wildland-urban interface land directly. In the summer of 2026 a statewide emergency closed most outdoor burning from August 1 through September 30.
On a wood-burning flue, the mesh around the cap is what stops a glowing ember from leaving the chimney. The state residential code also guards against choking the flue: on a masonry chimney, the open area of a rain cap or spark arrestor may not be less than four times the outlet area of the flue it covers. We size the cap to meet that, and we replace screens that are torn or packed with soot.
What this work is quoted at for Snoqualmie homes — the exact figure comes from the $99 on-site inspection, credited toward the work.
| Service | Price in Snoqualmie | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| Chimney Cap Installation | $265–$850 | Stainless cap fitted; multi-flue and custom at the top |
| Chimney Sweep | $189–$459 | 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 $1,900 | Full-length stainless liner, sized to the appliance |
| Chimney Repair | From $375 | Masonry repair — brick and mortar, scoped after diagnosis |
Ranges are what these jobs are quoted at in Snoqualmie. 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.
Snoqualmie is a Cascade foothills city on the Snoqualmie River, incorporated in 1903, on the Snoqualmie River, with homes from two periods, about three in four built between 2000 and 2019 and a small group dating from before 1940. We work every part of it — Historic Snoqualmie, Snoqualmie Ridge, Meadowbrook included.
SnoqualmieKing County, WA · 47.529, -121.825
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.
Footprint and fabrication. A stock stainless cap fits one standard flue tile. Two or three flues under one lid, or a cover cut for an odd-shaped crown, takes more metal and more time.
A gas vent ends in a termination chosen by the appliance maker, not in a masonry chimney cap. We check that this part is present and undamaged; we do not swap it for a generic one.
Yes: the inspection is $99 plus tax. It is credited against the cap installation once you approve the quote.
A $99 on-site inspection, a written quote before any work, and photos of every item we touch.
