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Olympia Chimney Chimney Liner & Rebuild in Greenwich: What to Know First

An Olympia Chimney liner replacement or full rebuild in Greenwich typically runs $2,800-$7,500 depending on flue length, liner diameter, and whether the crown and top courses of masonry need reconstruction. Most jobs take one to two days on site. We’re an independent Olympia Chimney service provider, which means we work on their liners and chimney systems every week but we’re not tied to a manufacturer’s script for what has to be replaced. If you’ve got an Olympia Chimney system that’s been flagged by an inspection, or if you’re seeing flue tile debris in the firebox, call (516) 399-5497 and we’ll put a camera in the flue before anyone talks about selling you a liner.

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How Olympia Chimney Products Fail - and How We Fix Them

Olympia Chimney makes a wide range of factory-built chimney components and liners that show up regularly in Greenwich homes, especially in renovations from the 1990s through the early 2010s. Here’s what we actually see when these systems come due for liner and rebuild work:

• Olympia stainless steel rigid liners: seam separation at the first joint above the smoke chamber. In Greenwich’s freeze-thaw winters, thermal expansion works on the mechanical lock at the lowest joint. The liner sections spread a few millimeters at the seam, and that’s where acidic flue gas starts eating through. We find this with the camera in about one out of every four Olympia rigid liner failures. The fix is section replacement from the bottom up, never a patch.
• Flexible Olympia liners: kinking at the smoke chamber offset. Older Olympia flex liners, particularly the single-ply models installed in the early 2000s, tend to collapse or kink where the flue changes angle above the smoke chamber. A kinked liner is a restriction by definition, and we’ve pulled more than a few where the homeowner was told the fireplace “just doesn’t draft well.” We measure the actual cross-section reduction with the camera and then re-sleeve with a properly sized liner, usually double-ply for the Connecticut code cycle.
• Galvanized outer casing corrosion at the termination cap. This shows up more on Olympia’s factory-built chimney chase systems and air-cooled models that Greenwich installers paired with wood-burning fireplaces. The galvanized outer casing rusts through near the cap, rainwater gets into the chase, and the inner liner starts corroding from the outside. What looks like a cap replacement is often the first visible sign of a top-to-bottom liner job.
• Cracked refractory panels in prefab fireboxes that feed into Olympia liners. The Olympia liner itself may be fine, but if it was installed without a proper smoke chamber parge or with the wrong adapter at the throat, the refractory panels take the heat damage. We photograph this during the Level 2 camera scan and show you exactly where the panel has cracked before we recommend any rebuild scope.
• Improperly sized liner from the original install. We’ve seen Olympia liners that were never the right diameter for the appliance connected to them. An 8-inch liner on a furnace that calls for 6-inch creates turbulence, condensation, and early liner corrosion. This is a spec issue, not a brand defect, but it means we check the appliance BTU and connector size before we assume a liner needs to be replaced. Sometimes the liner is fine and the sizing was wrong from day one.

Our Olympia Chimney Chimney Liner & Rebuild Process

When you call us about an Olympia Chimney liner in Greenwich, here’s how the job actually goes:

1. 1
   Camera scan and written findings. We run the Level 2 inspection with a camera down the flue, record the footage, and write down what we see. You get the photos and the written condition report. Clause 4 of the Haven Standard requires a photo record on every job, and that applies to the diagnostic visit too.
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   Written scope and written price. Before any work starts, you get a line-item written price covering liner material, insulation wrap if needed, smoke chamber parging, crown repair or rebuild, and any masonry work on the upper courses. No verbal ranges, no “we’ll see once we get up there.”
3. 3
   Parts decision. We’ll tell you if the job is best done with Olympia OEM components or with quality aftermarket materials from DuraFlex, HeatShield, or Gelco. For warranty preservation on newer Olympia systems, we default to OEM. For older systems where OEM is discontinued or backordered, we use aftermarket materials we can stand behind, and we note that in the write-up.
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   The rebuild itself. We protect the work area, remove the damaged liner sections or the full liner depending on scope, repair the smoke chamber, and set the new liner. On partial rebuilds where the upper flue tile is intact, we’ll show you the camera footage from both before and after so you can see exactly what changed.
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   Test fire and verification. We run a draft test and a test fire where safe, then re-camera the flue to verify the fit and seal. You get the after photos and video footage.
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   Done Right Promise in writing. Every Olympia Chimney liner and rebuild job we do carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if it’s not done right, we make it right. That’s stamped on the written warranty you get with the invoice.

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What Olympia Chimney Chimney Liner & Rebuild Costs in Greenwich

Here’s what we’re writing on estimates for Olympia Chimney work in Greenwich right now:

• Flexible liner replacement, single flue, one story: $2,800-$4,200 depending on diameter and whether it’s single or double-ply. Includes removal of the old liner, new liner, top plate, and rain cap.
• Rigid stainless steel liner section replacement: $1,200-$2,400 per section when only the lower flue joints have failed and the upper sections are intact.
• Partial rebuild with crown repair and re-flashing: $3,500-$5,800 including new crown, upper masonry courses, and flashing work.
• Full flue rebuild with new liner from smoke chamber to cap: $5,600-$7,500 on most Greenwich chimneys, more if there’s significant spalling or the firebox needs reconstruction.

What moves the price is liner diameter, total flue length, access (a steep Greenwich roof with a tall chimney adds scaffold and safety time), and how much of the masonry is actually compromised. You’ll get a free estimate with a written price before any work starts. Call (516) 399-5497 and we’ll schedule the camera scan.

Why Greenwich Homeowners Call Level Two Chimney Greenwich for Olympia Chimney Work

Corrine Halstead started documenting chimney condition with a camera before most companies in Fairfield County even owned one. We’ve run over 38,000 chimney inspections and cleanings since 2009, and every single one included a written price before work started and a documented photo record when the job was done. That practice became Clause 4 of the Haven Standard, and we haven’t skipped it once. The camera doesn’t guess. Neither do we. Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed, we text you when they’re on the way, and a live person answers the phone 24/7. If you bring us a competitor’s written quote, we’ll do a free second opinion on it. We also stock and work with DuraFlex, HeatShield, and Gelco materials, so we’re not locked into a single supply path when a Greenwich Olympia Chimney rebuild calls for a specific liner spec.

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