Famco Chimney Liner & Rebuild Nationwide

Famco Chimney Liner & Rebuild in Staten Island: What to Know First

We provide independent Famco chimney liner and rebuild service across Staten Island, with most jobs completed in a single visit and upfront pricing agreed before we start. A typical Famco liner replacement runs $2,800-$4,500 depending on flue height and access, while partial rebuilds start around $3,200. We’re not here to sell you work your chimney doesn’t need - if the liner’s sound, we’ll say so.

Call (516) 613-3035

This page is for Staten Island homeowners with a Famco liner, cap, or chimney component that’s showing age, drafting poorly, or failing inspection. Maybe you’ve been told you need a full rebuild and want a second opinion with photos you can actually see. Call (516) 613-3035 - a live person answers, 24 hours a day.

How Famco Products Fail - and How We Fix Them

• Famco stainless chimney caps corrode at the seam welds. The 304-grade series caps sold through many Staten Island supply houses in the 2000s developed pinhole leaks where the lid meets the skirt, especially on south-facing exposures that catch salt air off the Arthur Kill. Water gets in, freezes, and spalls the flue liner below. We pull the cap, assess the flue, and install a replacement with 316-grade stainless or copper if the homeowner wants the longer haul.
• Famco flexible liners in oil-burning setups glaze and crack. The FL-series flexible liners that were common in Great Kills and New Dorp oil-to-gas conversions don’t always handle the switch to lower-temperature flue gases. Condensation sits in the corrugations, sulfur compounds do their work, and we find circumferential cracks at the first bend above the appliance. We scope it with our camera, show the homeowner the footage, and replace with an appropriately rated liner - sometimes DuraFlex if the flue run is tricky, sometimes rigid if it’s straight enough.
• Famco top-mount dampers seize after a decade of Staten Island winters. The cast-aluminum damper bodies work fine until they don’t - the cable housing fills with creosote grit, the butterfly plate warps from heat cycling, and suddenly you’re losing heat up the flue or fighting a smoky fireplace. We don’t just lubricate and hope; we pull the assembly, check the flue walls beneath it for damage, and replace with a new Famco unit or a Gelco equivalent if the sizing’s right.
• Famco chimney crowns in pre-fab chase enclosures crack from thermal shock. The poured crowns on Famco chase covers in Tottenville and Annadale take a beating - summer sun bakes them to 140 degrees, a January cold snap drops them to 20, and the hairline cracks become water highways. We don’t caulk over them. We grind, seal with HeatShield CrownCoat or pour a new crown if the steel chase is still sound, and flash it correctly so the next inspector doesn’t flag it.
• Famco B-vent connectors in furnace replacements get orphaned. When a contractor swaps in a high-efficiency furnace and leaves the old Famco B-vent standing in the chimney, you’ve got a liner that’s now too large for the reduced flue gas volume. Condensation soaks the clay liner below, we see it crumbling on camera, and we quote a right-sized liner - Famco if the specs match, Olympia Chimney if we need a different diameter set. Either way, the homeowner sees the photos before we order anything.

Our Famco Chimney Liner & Rebuild Process

1. 1
   Call and schedule. A live person answers, asks what you’re burning, how old the system is, and whether you’ve got a recent inspection report. We book a window and send a confirmation.
2. 2
   Level-2 camera inspection. Our technician runs a camera the full flue length, photographs every joint, every crack, every glazed section. You see the footage on a tablet while we’re still on the ladder. Russell’s rule: if the chimney’s sound, I’ll say so. If it isn’t, you’ll hear that too.
3. 3
   Parts decision with options. We check Famco availability against quality aftermarket - DuraFlex for difficult flex runs, HeatShield for resurfacing sound clay, Gelco for damper replacements. We explain the trade-offs in plain English, not a sales pitch.
4. 4
   Upfront pricing, then the work. The number on the estimate is the number on the invoice. No surprises. Most Famco liner and rebuild jobs finish in one day; full rebuilds may need a second for curing.
5. 5
   Post-repair test and documentation. We run a smoke test or draft test depending on the appliance, photo the completed work, and leave you a written report with the 90-Day Done Right Promise attached.
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   Cleanup and follow-up. Background-checked, uniformed techs leave the work area cleaner than they found it. We call within a week to confirm everything’s performing.

What Famco Chimney Liner & Rebuild Costs in Staten Island

These are real 2024-2025 Staten Island ranges based on jobs we’ve done from Westerleigh to Rosebank. Every flue is different. Call (516) 613-3035 for a free estimate - we’ll scope it, show you the photos, and give you a number that doesn’t change.

Why Staten Island Homeowners Call Hearthstone Chimney Co. for Famco Work

We’ve been answering the phone with a live person for over 42 years, and we’ve been crawling Staten Island flues long enough to know which Famco series were installed in which era. The 90-Day Done Right Promise isn’t a slogan - it’s in writing, with no paperwork and no arguing. If it’s not right, we come back.

Our technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and trained on Famco’s product line as well as the backup brands we carry: DuraFlex, HeatShield, Gelco, Olympia Chimney, and Copperfield. That means if Famco’s lead time is six weeks on a specialty part, we’ve got options that won’t leave you cold. And we document everything - photos you can see, a plain-English verdict - so you’re never taking our word for something you can’t verify yourself.

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