
Apex, NC North Carolina 27502
When you need your chimney repaired, we are available and ready to help! We provide a full range of chimney services including cleaning, maintenance, and repairs. Simply give us a call and we can assist with your chimney needs!
Customer happiness is our main priority. We proudly offer rapid response times and top quality services for all our chimney repair customers.
Regular chimney and fire place maintenance is important to help keep your household safe from smoke, carbon monoxide, and fires. Whether you are requiring a repair, or you would just like to update your fire place and chimney, our chimney repair and fire place repair service pros can help!
Our chimney pros manage all sorts of repair work as well as maintenance from chimney crowns and caps, to full chimney rebuilding.
The chimney flue is the interior shaft that vents smoke as well as gases which are produced by burning a fire in the fire place. Damage to the flue, cracks between the bricks, and degrading mortar take place after years of use. In cases of light to moderate damage, it's feasible to deal with the loosened mortar and fractures. One of our professionals will have the ability to give you a flue repair quote as well as suggest the very best choices for your home.
Adding a chimney liner or relining your chimney can help safeguard your flue from damages and also protect against fires. The three major types of liners are metal, clay, and cast-in-place liners.
Metal liners are a newly preferred type of chimney liner for upgrades and repair services. They are usually produced from stainless steel, although they can occasionally be made from light weight aluminum also. Metal liners are are extremely versatile, available in rigid or flexible models, and most any home can accommodate them.
Clay tile liners are some of the most common kind of chimney liner. Many older residences have clay liners. They are relatively affordable, yet require regular upkeep to ensure that flue tiles do not fracture, split, or break.
Cast in place liners are a light material comparable to cement that is installed inside the chimney for a seamless flue. These types of liners tend to be hard to. install as well as pricey. In time, they can begin to develop fractures and need relining.
Our pros can help establish the most effective choices for your home.
The chimney crown is really important. It acts as a protective concrete umbrella or roof for your whole chimney. This protects your flue and chimney from rainfall and other elements.
When the chimney crown gets cracks or comes to be damaged in any way, it enables rain water seep through the chimney and expand and contract. This can trigger extreme damage to the entire chimney if not fixed. When found early, standard repair services can be made to avoid issues from taking place.
If cracking in the chimney crown is small, the splits can be filled with patch and a waterproof sealant can be used on top. This will securely keep water from getting in.
In situations where there is much more substantial damage to the crown, it might be necessary to reconstruct it. If the chimney is still in good condition, then it's feasible to rebuild just the crown. This will secure the chimney for a lot more years. It's important to have a professional chimney repair examine the crown, flue, and whole chimney to ensure all areas are safe.
A chimney cap protects your home in several ways. It keeps rainfall, snow, and, dirt and animals out of your fire place and also prevents hot sparks and also embers from flying out and into your roof. You must never run your fire place or wood burning stove without a chimney cap.
Chimney caps are constructed from galvanized or stainless-steel, light weight aluminum, or copper. Our chimney service professionals can replace your chimney cap or mount a new one on your chimney if you do not have one yet.
Lots of people confuse the chimney damper with the flue. The flue is the inside of the chimney that smoke journeys through. The damper is the portion of the chimney that closes off air circulation to the outside. When a damper comes to be old, it requires fixing. Usually repairing or changing the existing old metal damper can be expensive.
It's far better to install a top sealing damper. They are cheaper, and every efficient. A top sealing damper will keep cold drafts and also unwanted weather outside. A substantial amount of air movement can leak in through the chimney from the outside, making your residence really feel colder in the winter season. This can quickly add up to hundreds of dollars each year in extra home heating costs.
There are times when a quick repair service isn't a good solution and a damaged chimney needs to be entirely rebuilt. Our expert chimney professionals can do chimney masonry repair work and full chimney rebuilding.
We can assist with full fireplace repair work service including firebox repair service, refractory panel replacement, fire place door repair service, gas log repair service and replacement, fireplace screens and clean out doors, and more.
The firebox is the place inside the fireplace where the fire burns. This portion of of the fire place can often require repair services. Firebox tuckpointing is a process that eliminates old mortar joints. The surface between the joints is cleaned up, and after that the old joints are loaded with new cement. Cracked or loosened bricks can likewise be repaired.
Prefabricated fire places have refractory panels. These panels are repaired by cutting and sizing replacement panels, fitting them together and mounting them.
Fire place doors and gas logs are a wonderful improvement for your fire place. The most recent gas logs are appealing and realistic looking and also are much cleaner than wood burning. We can assist with any type of range of fire place repair work and improvements.