Chimney Repair & Masonry
Repointing, crown rebuilds, liners and flashing. Every repair starts with photographs of the problem and a written quote.
on site
included
What we repair
Most chimney damage in New Jersey is water damage. Water gets into masonry, freezes, expands and takes the masonry apart from the inside. Almost everything on this list traces back to that.
- Repointing — grinding out failed mortar joints and replacing them, matched to the original mortar
- Crown repair and rebuild — replacing cracked mortar wash with a proper cast crown with an overhang
- Brick replacement — rebuilding courses lost to spalling
- Flue liner repair and stainless relining — for cracked tile or unlined flues
- Flashing — sealing the joint where the chimney meets the roof
- Firebox and damper repair — refractory panels, dampers, smoke chamber parging
How we price it
We don't quote repair work over the phone, because a price given without seeing the chimney is a guess and guesses get revised upward. What happens instead is that we do the $49 inspection, we photograph what we find, and we hand you a written price for the specific work the photographs show.
If you want to take that written price and get two other quotes, do. That's a reasonable thing to do with a repair bill and we'll not pressure you about it.
Historic masonry
If your house is genuinely old — the Morristown Historic District, Llewellyn Park, the older Newark and Paterson stock — the mortar matters. Nineteenth-century masonry was laid with soft lime mortar, and repointing it with hard modern portland mortar transfers stress into the brick and damages it. We match mortar to the masonry rather than to the calendar.
What happens on the visit
- We protect your floor and hearth before anything else
- A camera goes in the flue, bottom to top — not a flashlight
- We check the firebox, damper, smoke shelf and the crown above the roofline
- We confirm which appliances vent into which flue
- You get a written report with photographs the same day
Book Chimney Repair
Inspection $49 · Cleaning $99
Chimney Repair questions
Straight answers
How do you decide what actually needs repairing?
From the $49 inspection. Every repair we quote starts with photographs of the problem, so you can see the crack or the failed joint before you spend anything on it.
Is a cracked crown urgent, or can it wait a season?
A crown crack is how water gets into the stack, and water is what turns a small repair into a rebuild once it freezes. It's the repair we would rather do early.
Do you repoint the whole stack or just the bad joints?
Whatever the photographs justify. Repointing sound mortar is money wasted; leaving an open joint above the roofline is how the next problem starts.
Can a liner be repaired, or does it have to be replaced?
It depends on where the damage is and how far it runs, which is exactly what the camera scan shows. We'll tell you which one it is and why.
Where we work
New Jersey
Statewide