Chimney Services
Cap To Counter-Flash
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.
How Chimneys Die: Top Down, Water First
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.
The Chimney Lives On The Roof
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.
Straight Answers On Chimneys
Do you clean flues or service fireplaces?
No — that is certified chimney sweep work and we refer it honestly. Our lane is everything exterior: cap, crown, brick, flashing, waterproofing.
My chimney leaks but only in some rains — why?
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.
How often should the chimney exterior be inspected?
Yearly glance, professional look every few years, and immediately after any masonry or interior water sign — ours are free, so the bar is low.
How much does chimney neglect actually cost?
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.
Who fixes chimneys, roofers or masons?
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.
Is chimney work covered by homeowners insurance?
Storm damage — lightning, wind-toppled stacks, limb strikes — typically yes; wear and deterioration, no. We claim-check every storm-adjacent chimney call.
Why do chimneys leak more than the rest of the roof?
Five failure modes share one small footprint — cap, crown, brick, flashing and condensation — and the roof’s biggest penetration collects them all.
Do unused chimneys still need maintenance?
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.
The Chimney Menu
Every layer, its own page.
Every Chimney Service
Cap to counter-flash — each layer of the stack has its own page.
Chimney Showing Its Age?
Free full-system inspection — every layer graded with photos.