Hoffman Estates, IL Illinois 60169
When you need your chimney repaired, we are here and prepared to assist! We provide a wide range of chimney services including cleaning, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can help with your chimney needs!
Customer satisfaction is our main priority. We happily offer rapid response times and high quality services for all our chimney repair customers.
Routine chimney and fireplace maintenance is essential to help keep your household safe from smoke, carbon monoxide gas, as well as fires. Whether you are needing a repair, or you would just like to upgrade your fire place and chimney, our chimney repair and fire place repair service pros can help!
Our chimney pros manage all types of repair work as well as maintenance from chimney crowns and caps, to entire chimney rebuilding.
The chimney flue is the interior shaft that vents smoke and gases which are created by burning a fire in the fire place. Damage to the flue, cracks in between the bricks, and deteriorating mortar occur after years of use. In cases of light to moderate damage, it's possible to repair the loose mortar and fractures. One of our experts will be able to provide you a flue repair service quote and recommend the best options for your home.
Adding a chimney liner or relining your chimney can help safeguard your flue from damages and protect against fires. The three main sorts of liners are metal, clay, and cast-in-place liners.
Metal liners are a recently favored kind of chimney liner for upgrades and also repairs. They are normally produced from stainless steel, although they can occasionally be made from aluminum too. Metal liners are are really versatile, readily available in rigid or flexible versions, and most any kind of home can accommodate them.
Clay tile liners are one of the most common type of chimney liner. Most older residences have clay liners. They are rather economical, however require regular maintenance to make certain that flue tiles don't crack, split, or break.
Cast in place liners are a light material similar to cement that is installed inside the chimney for a seamless flue. These kinds of liners tend to be hard to. install and expensive. With time, they can begin to develop fractures and need relining.
Our pros can help determine the most effective choices for your residence.
The chimney crown is really vital. It serves as a protective concrete umbrella or rooftop for your entire chimney. This protects your flue as well as chimney from rainfall and other elements.
When the chimney crown gets fractures or becomes damaged at all, it enables rain water seep through the chimney and expand and contract. This can cause serious damages to the whole chimney if not repaired. When found early, standard repair services can be made to avoid issues from happening.
If splitting in the chimney crown is small, the fractures can be filled with patch and a water-proof sealant can be applied on top. This will safely keep water from getting in.
In scenarios where there is much more substantial damage to the crown, it might be needed to reconstruct it. If the chimney is still in good condition, then it's possible to rebuild just the crown. This will protect the chimney for a lot more years. It's important to have a professional chimney repair check the crown, flue, and whole chimney to make certain all areas are safe.
A chimney cap safeguards your home in lots of ways. It keeps rainfall, snow, and, dirt and animals out of your fire place and prevents hot sparks as well as embers from flying out and into your roof. You ought to never run your fireplace or wood burning stove without a chimney cap.
Chimney caps are made of galvanized or stainless steel, light weight aluminum, or copper. Our chimney service technicians can replace your chimney cap or set up a new one on your chimney if you don't have one yet.
Many individuals confuse the chimney damper with the flue. The flue is the interior of the chimney that smoke travels through. The damper is the component of the chimney that closes off air circulation to the exterior. When a damper becomes old, it requires fixing. Normally fixing or changing the existing old metal damper can be costly.
It's much better to set up a top sealing damper. They are more economical, as well as every efficient. A top sealing damper will keep cold drafts and also undesirable weather outdoors. A considerable amount of air flow can leak in through the chimney from the exterior, making your house feel colder in the winter. This can easily add up to hundreds of dollars annually in added heating costs.
There are times when a quick repair work isn't a great solution and a damaged chimney needs to be totally rebuilt. Our expert chimney professionals can do chimney masonry repair work and complete chimney rebuilding.
We can help with full fireplace repair service including firebox repair work, refractory panel replacement, fireplace door repair, gas log repair work and replacement, fire place screens and clean out doors, and more.
The firebox is the area inside the fireplace where the fire burns. This part of the fireplace can often require repair services. Firebox tuckpointing is a process that removes old mortar joints. The surface between the joints is cleaned up, and after that the old joints are filled with new cement. Broken or loose bricks can likewise be fixed.
Prefabricated fireplaces have refractory panels. These panels are fixed by cutting and sizing replacement panels, fitting them together and installing them.
Fire place doors and gas logs are a wonderful enhancement for your fireplace. The latest gas logs are eye-catching and realistic looking and are much cleaner than wood burning. We can help with any variety of fireplace repair work and renovations.