Your chimney takes weather from five directions and shrugs it off for decades — until one neglected layer starts the cascade. Every chimney exterior service, from the roofers already on your roof.
The difference between Chimney Services Cap To Counter-Flash that lasts and Chimney Services Cap To Counter-Flash that fails early is usually the crown, step flashing or the counterflashing. We check all of them on site rather than estimating blind, document findings with dated photographs, and price the work in writing first. Licensed contractor, fully insured, 400+ five-star reviews.
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The overlap is at the roof: flashing where the chimney penetrates the roof plane, crowns, caps, waterproofing and masonry above the roof line. That intersection is one of the most common leak sources on any house, and it is frequently misdiagnosed as a roof problem when the chimney is the actual entry point. Related: commercial roofing, gutters & winter roof services and gutter services in ohio, pa & ny.
Chimney failure follows a script: the cap goes missing or was never there, rain pours down the flue and soaks the structure; the crown cracks and feeds water into the brick core; freeze-thaw spalls faces and crumbles mortar (masonry repair territory); and somewhere along the way the flashing gets blamed for a leak three layers deep. Interrupt the script at any early stage and the chimney outlives the house.
Most chimney damage is roof-relationship damage — flashing where brick meets shingles, crowns shedding onto the roof plane, leaks that travel roof framing before surfacing. We’re already up there, already fluent in the metalwork, and our inspections see the whole system: chimney, roof, and the seam between them where the arguments usually live. Flue-interior and combustion work goes to chimney sweeps — and we’ll say so when that’s your actual need.
No — that is certified chimney sweep work and we refer it honestly. Our lane is everything exterior: cap, crown, brick, flashing, waterproofing.
Wind-direction-dependent leaks are classic flashing or crown symptoms — the diagnosis lives on our chimney leak repair page and the free inspection settles it.
Yearly glance, professional look every few years, and immediately after any masonry or interior water sign — ours are free, so the bar is low.
Each skipped layer multiplies the next — a missing cap becomes a soaked flue, a cracked crown becomes spalled brick, and the late-stage rebuild costs many times the early fix.
Above the roofline it’s both crafts — flashing is roofer metalwork, brick is masonry, and the seam between them is where a company fluent in both earns its keep.
Storm damage — lightning, wind-toppled stacks, limb strikes — typically yes; wear and deterioration, no. We claim-check every storm-adjacent chimney call.
Five failure modes share one small footprint — cap, crown, brick, flashing and condensation — and the roof’s biggest penetration collects them all.
The weather doesn’t check whether you burn fires — caps, crowns and masonry age identically. Unused chimneys just skip the sweep, not the exterior care.
If water is getting in, or the damage is spreading to something more expensive, now. If it's cosmetic and stable, it can be planned. We'll tell you which it is in writing after the inspection.
Most jobs finish in a day or two depending on scope and weather. Lifespan depends on material and how well the rest of the system drains — which is why we check the surrounding components rather than just the piece you called about.
The exterior works as one assembly — these are the pieces that connect to this one.
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Learn more →Cap to counter-flash — each layer of the stack has its own page.
Chimney is available across our licensed service territory in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. Find your city below, or call (330) 918-1018.
Free full-system inspection — every layer graded with photos.
Roof Gutter Now is based in Akron, Ohio. We are a licensed full-service exterior contractor in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, and crews travel for winter storm work — ice dam removal, roof snow removal and heated cables — across the northern states below. Open a state to see every city we dispatch to.
Do not see your town? Every city page lists the surrounding communities that dispatch covers — or see all service areas. Roofing, gutters and siding are offered in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York only; other states are winter services.
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