Family-owned chimney crown repair in Keene's Pointe
Book within 72 hours after your free inspection and 10% comes off. Our Keene's Pointe crew inspects the crown for free and puts every option in writing.
- Licensed & insured
- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
What we check on your chimney crown
- Condition of the crown edges and overhang
- Precast crown option where the chimney suits it
- Cure time before the next fire
- 10% off any service booked within 72 hours
Crown repair with the right materials
When the top of the chimney is a chase cover
Some chimneys are wood-framed boxes finished in siding or stucco and built around a metal flue. Those have a sheet-metal cover on top, and there is no concrete crown to repair. From the driveway the two can look surprisingly alike.
If your chimney turns out to be a framed chase, we tell you right away and point you to the chimney chase cover work it actually needs. Nobody from our family-owned team will sell you a crown repair on a chimney that does not have a crown.
The materials fail differently too. A chase cover is sheet metal over a framed box, and it rusts, sags or tears at the seams. A concrete crown cracks and crumbles. Each needs its own repair, and our technicians price only the one your chimney actually has.
Thin mortar washes that pass for crowns
Many chimneys were topped with a mortar wash, a thin layer of mortar troweled over the top bricks and feathered to nothing at the edges. It looks like a crown from below, but it has no overhang, no drip and often very little slope. Heat and rain break it into plates that lift and let water underneath.
Brick Industry Association guidance cautions against tapering a cap to a thin edge. When our crew finds a mortar wash, we usually recommend removing it and casting a proper crown. The free inspection shows how far gone yours is before you decide anything.
Taking off a mortar wash is usually quick work, since the layer is thin and already loose. What sits underneath tells the rest of the story. If the top bricks are sound, a new crown can go straight on. If they are loose, they get relaid first, and the estimate shows that as its own line.
Repair materials made for chimney crowns
Crown repairs call for materials made to bond to old concrete and stand up to weather on a chimney top. Ordinary bagged mortar often shrinks and cracks when it is spread thin over an old crown.
Our crew uses products suited to the repair, prepared the way the maker specifies. The estimate names the material, so you can look it up yourself or ask us anything about it.
Material choice also depends on the size of the repair. Thin repairs need products made to grip in thin layers, while larger sections need a mix that can be formed and cured like new concrete. Our crew matches the material to the repair, and the estimate says which one.
Before you seal a crown yourself
Store-bought sealers and caulk tubes make crown repair look like a weekend project. The hard part is the prep, finding every crack, removing old coatings and knowing whether the concrete underneath is sound.
A do-it-yourself coat over a failing crown can hide the problem until the leak shows up inside. If you have already tried a sealer, tell us what you used. We check the crown under it and give you a straight answer.
Some store products can make a later repair harder, since a proper crown coating may not stick to them. Our crew removes whatever is needed to reach sound concrete, then applies a product made for chimney crowns.
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Your chimney crown questions, answered
Do I need to be home during the crown repair?
Someone needs to be home for the inspection so we can look at the fireplace from inside. For the repair itself we mostly work from the roof, so many homeowners leave the gate open and a phone number. We call you when the work is done and walk you through it.
How soon can I use the fireplace after a new crown?
It depends on the material. A coating needs dry hours to set, and a newly cast crown needs time to cure before a hot fire runs beneath it. We give you the waiting time for your product in writing at handover.
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