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Gas fireplace repair, installation, cleaning and maintenance in Princeton, for houses off Nassau Street and out toward the townships alike.
Repair is where most calls begin, but it is rarely the whole job. We clean and inspect annually, maintain what is working, replace the parts that have aged out, and install new units where a conversion has reached its end. Inserts, direct vents, freestanding stoves and ceramic log sets, indoors and out.
Princeton is an old town with old housing to match, and that shapes almost every call we take here. A good part of the housing near the centre predates central heating entirely, which means chimneys built for wood that have since been fitted with gas inserts, sometimes twice over. Those retrofits are the ones worth looking at closely. An insert that went in during the eighties is a different animal from one fitted last year, and the parts that fail on it are different too.
Further out, toward the townships, the stock gets newer and the units get simpler. Direct vent built-ins, sealed systems, no chimney involved. Those tend to need less work, but they are also the ones people forget about entirely until the first properly cold night, because nothing about them asks for attention until they stop lighting.
Either way, the job usually starts the same. We look at what is actually installed rather than what the last owner said was installed, and go from there.
Free estimates on every service, for homes and businesses across Princeton and the rest of Mercer County.
A masonry chimney that has carried an insert for thirty years collects things: soot above the firebox, birds in the summer, mortar that has given up in places. We check the flue as part of the job rather than treating the insert as a sealed box.
Plenty of places here are quiet between May and September. A unit that has not run in four months usually smells on its first evening and sometimes will not catch at all. Neither is a fault, both are dust, and both are why a clean before October is worth booking.
Larger older homes often have more than one fireplace, and they are rarely the same age or the same type. We would rather look at all of them on one visit than come back in February for the one nobody mentioned.
If you are in Princeton and something is not lighting, or you would like a unit looked over before the season turns, call and tell us what it is doing. The estimate is free, and we will tell you honestly whether it needs a repair or just a clean.
Burners, ignition, pilots, key valves and glass, on indoor and outdoor units.
Read moreDirect vents, inserts, freestanding units and log sets, for new builds or replacements.
Read moreAnnual clean and safety inspection covering glass, logs, burner, box and ventilation.
Read moreCart, built-in and island grills connected to natural gas or house propane.
Read moreCustom or prefabricated firepits, gas line runs and propane-to-natural-gas conversions.
Read moreGas lanterns, lamp posts and torches, mounted and connected and serviced.
Read morePrinceton is one of the places we work in Central Jersey. If you are nearer one of these, the service is the same.
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