Family-owned chimney chase repair in Zellwood
Rebuild or repair, our family team prices both for Zellwood homes and backs the work with a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
- Licensed & insured
- Locally run
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service available
What we check on a framed chase
- Siding removed and reused where boards are sound
- Water-resistive barrier lapped upper over lower
- Ladder, roof anchor or scaffold access
- Added work priced in writing before it starts
How we repair chimney chases in Zellwood
How a failed top sends water down the chase
When the metal top of a chase leaks, the water does not stay at the top. It runs down the inside face of the sheathing, along the studs and onto whatever sits at the bottom of the box, like the roof deck or a framed floor. Some of it can follow the outside of the chimney pipe toward the fireplace.
That is why a leak at the top can show up as rot at the bottom. The wood near the cover may look fine while the base plate has gone soft.
Replacing the cover is a separate job with a separate line. Our part is the wood and finish the water already reached. We trace the path from top to bottom so the repair covers everything that got wet, and not only the spot closest to the leak.
Fiber-cement siding joints on a chase
Fiber-cement siding holds up well on a chase when its joints get the right detail. For panels, R703.10.1 puts vertical and horizontal joints over framing and protects them with caulking, battens, flashing or shiplap. For lap siding, R703.10.2 protects the ends with caulking, an H-section joint cover or a strip of flashing behind the joint. Fasteners follow the code table or the maker's instructions.
An unprotected joint lets water reach the cut edges and the sheathing behind them. Face nails driven too deep break the surface and give water another way in.
We cut and seal new fiber-cement pieces as the maker directs, protect the joints and set nails flush. Paint follows soon after installation, so no bare edge is left out in the weather. The estimate names the siding product and the joint detail we will use. Where old and new pieces meet, the joint is detailed the same way, so the patch does not become the next leak.
Brick veneer around a metal chimney
Some chases are faced with brick or stone veneer, so the chimney looks like masonry from the street. Inside, it is still a framed box around a metal chimney pipe, with the veneer tied back to the framing.
R703.8 of the Florida Building Code generally limits anchored stone and masonry veneer over wood framing to the first story above grade plane, and it lists exceptions. When a veneer chase is rebuilt, the height of veneer on wood framing is one of the first things we check against the code.
Repairs to a veneer chase cover both the masonry face and the framing behind it. Our crew checks the ties, the flashing at the base of the veneer and the wood behind, and the estimate separates veneer work from framing work. Any veneer that has pulled away from the framing is taken down and relaid on sound ties.
Radiation shields at the top of the chase
Just under the cover, some chimney systems use roof radiation shields that protect the chase framing around the pipe. In DuraVent's DuraChimney II manual, they go at the top of the chase or where the chimney passes the roof, whichever is the top of the installation, and they do not reduce the required clearance.
Those shields sit on the same top framing that rots when a cover leaks. When the top plate or blocking is replaced, the shields come off and have to go back in their listed position.
Our crew removes and reinstalls the shields as the chimney maker directs, and replaces bent or damaged ones with listed parts. The shields go back before any cover does, so the top of a chase in Zellwood is rebuilt as one complete assembly.
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Quick answers on chimney chase repair
Do you work with my roofer?
Yes. Flashing at the chase base sits between the roof and the chase, so we agree with your roofer on who replaces which pieces before work starts. The written estimate spells out that split.
Do you charge to look at my chase?
No. The inspection and the written estimate are free, with no obligation to book the repair. If the chase only needs small fixes, we tell you that too.
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