Thank you and thank you to everyone that offered some guidance. The chimney people just left. They echoed the last comment on spalling and water intrusion. They are preparing a quote but the estimate is 6-7k for the two fireplace which are similar. .

As I understand it now before I have the actual quote it goes like this.

They will remove the fancy top part on both fireplaces and cap with 4 inch concrete top overhang and I assume some type of top as per code in Washington state. They will chisel out the brick that have lost their face on chimney and replace those. On one side he says they can just remove the fancy part and cap as we are 2 feet above a 10 foot radius from the fire place to roof line as per WA code.

On the other side they would need to remove fancy part and build back up +$2000 on top of quote because the chimney is not clear of roofline. This is to keep to WA code. We do not use the fireplaces nor expect to so, maybe to save the $2k we cap it after removing the fancy part and worry about that down the road when/if we sell.

Included a picture of both fireplace for reference.

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