Chimney and Fireplace Service in Eagan, Minnesota

Eagan is named for Patrick Eagan, an Irish farmer who chaired the first town board, and it was mostly fields until the 1970s. It incorporated in 1972, and Wikipedia credits the six-lane Minnesota River bridge built in 1980, when Highway 77 was relocated and widened, with driving its largest wave of growth. The last southbound stretch of I-35E followed in the mid-1980s. Eagan had 68,855 residents in 2020.

The housing record matches: Census ACS (2024 five-year) puts Eagan's median year built at 1988, with barely 3 percent of homes built before 1960. Gas heats about 81 percent of occupied homes, and about half are single-family detached houses. Expect split-levels and two-stories with a gas fireplace or a factory-built wood unit in a chase, plus townhome rows where several chases share one roofline.

Thirty-plus years on a chase top

A chase cover put on in 1988 has now been through more than three decades of Minnesota winters. At the MSP airport station, just across the river, NOAA's 1991–2020 normals show about 22 nights a year at or below zero and about 90 days with an inch or more of snow on the ground. Galvanized lids that old are often rusted at the seams, and the paint has long since gone.

A new chase cover runs $300 to $700 in most cases, and a chimney cap for the flue outlet $200 to $850. If the inside of the chase has taken on water for years, we check the framing and the metal flue sections; factory-built chimney repairs usually fall between $250 and $1,200.

Townhome fireplaces

Many Eagan townhomes have gas fireplaces that vent straight out the wall, often low and close to a deck or walkway. In a heavy snow the termination can get buried, and the fireplace may shut off or struggle to light. Keep the outside vent clear after every storm, and call us if the glass turns cloudy or the flame turns lazy and yellow.

For associations, we can inspect several units on the same visit and give each owner a separate written report, which helps when maintenance lines are split between the board and the owner.

Carbon monoxide alarms

Minnesota law (Minn. Stat. 299F.51) requires an approved, working carbon monoxide alarm within 10 feet of every room used for sleeping, in every single-family home and every unit of a multifamily building. With a gas fireplace, furnace and water heater all in the house, we look for those alarms during the free inspection.

Where we work in Eagan

Patrick Eagan Park area · Lebanon Hills area · Cedar Avenue / Highway 77 corridor · I-35E corridor · Near the 1914 Town Hall · Minnesota River side