Fountain Valley Chimneys: What Can Wait, What Cannot
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Homesure Jobs for Fountain Valley Homes
If you have wondered for years about a Fountain Valley fireplace, an inspection finally settles the matter.
Chimney Sweep in Fountain Valley
Soot and creosote brushed out of the flue. If you cannot remember the last one, it is probably time.
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We go from the firebox to the cap and tell you what each part looks like, in plain words.
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Crown, mortar, liner or crack work, done in the order we said mattered most.
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The firebox, damper and smoke chamber, checked from inside the room.
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Cracked panels, a stuck damper, smoke coming into the room. We find the cause first.
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A camera goes up the flue to show what you cannot see from the hearth. Asked for when a house is sold, or after a quake or a chimney fire.
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A cover with a mesh screen on top of the flue. Keeps rain, leaves, animals and sparks where they belong.
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A stain on the ceiling next to the chimney often starts here, where the roof meets the brick.
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Loose or missing mortar and cracked brick, matched to what is already there.
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When the top of the chimney is too far gone to patch, we take it down and build it back.
Learn MoreFireplace Cleaning in Fountain Valley
Ash, soot and stains cleared out of the firebox and off the glass and surround.
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Burner, pilot, logs and glass cleaned, with a carbon monoxide check before we leave.
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Will not light, will not stay lit, or the flame looks wrong. We trace it to the part.
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A new surround, mantel or hearth, planned around what the firebox and flue can take.
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A closed unit that sits in an open fireplace so the heat stays in the room.
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Auger, igniter, blowers or an error code on the board. We find which one it is.
Learn MoreWood Stove Repair in Fountain Valley
Gaskets, firebrick, baffle and glass on a wood stove, checked and replaced as needed.
Learn MoreGas Logs in Fountain Valley
Gas logs sized to your firebox, for a fireplace you would rather switch on than build.
Learn MoreWhat we tell Fountain Valley owners
Farmland gave way quickly to tracts here, nearly all finished by 1980. Period fireplaces are mostly masonry, with metal later. Owners here have had decades to wonder if theirs is fine. A look answers that. Close by to the southwest lies Newport-Inglewood, which caused the 1933 shaking, a fact old masonry should respect. Otherwise it is a mild mid-basin place, where marine mornings and winter rain slowly wear a crown.
What We Look at First
Masonry or metal, slow crown wear, then joints in light of the nearby fault.
What Cannot Wait
A crown split by decades of rain, block joints opening, a metal flue with a gap.
What Can Wait
Marine-damp spots on a crown, an old screen, faded paint on a tract home's chase.
Next Door
We also go to Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Irvine.
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