Chimney Replacement in New Jersey

Signs a New Jersey Chimney Needs Rebuilding

New Jersey chimneys fail from the top down and from the outside in. Water gets into a cracked crown or an open mortar joint, freezes on a January night, and lifts the face off the brick – the same freeze-thaw cycle that takes out steps and retaining walls here. If you can see any of the following from the ground, it is worth a look:

• Spalling and cracks: brick faces flaking or popping off, usually on the weather side, and open mortar joints you can put a key into. Above the roofline this is a rebuild; below it, repointing may be enough.
• Leaning or tilting: a chimney should be plumb. A lean usually means the footing has settled or the mortar has failed on one side, and it is the one sign that turns a maintenance job into an urgent one.
• Water inside: stains on the ceiling beside the chimney breast, damp brick in the attic, or a fireplace that smells of wet soot after rain. More often than not the leak is the flashing where the chimney meets the roof, not the chimney itself – and that is a far cheaper fix.
• Cracked flue tiles: the clay liner shields the masonry from heat and flue gases. Cracked tiles show up on a camera inspection and usually mean relining in stainless steel rather than rebuilding – relining is a fraction of the cost of a new stack.
• Smoke in the room: smoke pushing back into the house, or a smell of old fire when nothing is lit, points to a blocked flue, a failed liner or a draft problem. Have it swept and inspected before assuming the stack has to come down.

How a Chimney Rebuild Works, Step by Step

Before anything comes down we put a camera up the flue and look at the crown, the flashing and the mortar, because the answer is often ‘rebuild the top four feet’ rather than ‘replace the chimney’. Here is how the work runs:

• Inspection: a camera survey of the flue and a look at the crown, cap, flashing and mortar, so the quote covers what is actually wrong.
• Plan and permit: we set the scope – above the roofline, full stack, or reline only – confirm the flue size for the appliance, and pull a municipal permit where the town requires one for structural work.
• Take-down: brick removed by hand from the top rather than dropped down the flue, roof and grounds sheeted, and the debris carried out rather than tipped over the eaves.
• Rebuild: brick matched to the existing house as closely as it can be, a mortar mix matched to the original, a poured crown with a drip edge, new flashing where the stack passes the roof, and a stainless cap on top.
• Final check and clean: a smoke or camera test on the finished flue, the roof re-shingled and swept, and photographs of the completed work for your records.

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Why Boundless for a Chimney Rebuild in Rockaway and Morris County

• Roofers and masons in one company: a rebuild means opening the roof around the stack. We flash it and shingle it back ourselves, so there is no second trade and no argument about whose work the next leak came from. None of the chimney companies ranking for this search in New Jersey does roofing.
• Matched materials: we bring brick and mortar samples to the estimate so you can hold them against the house before anything is ordered. On a 1950s or 1960s chimney an exact match is rarely possible, and we would rather show you that up front than after the scaffold is up.
• Registered and insured: HIC Reg. #13VH10877700 on the New Jersey register, general liability cover of $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate, BBB accredited with an A+ rating. Ask for the certificate before the scaffold goes up.
• The cheaper answer first: if a camera survey shows the masonry is sound and only the liner has failed, we will quote the reline rather than the rebuild. We have talked more people out of a new chimney than into one.

A leaning stack or a cracked crown over a wet ceiling is not a job to leave until spring. Call 973-960-7921 – answered at any hour – or ask for a free written estimate anywhere in Bergen, Hudson, Morris or Passaic county.

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