Lakewood Chimneys: What Can Wait, What Cannot
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Homesure Jobs for Lakewood Homes
A Lakewood inspection takes the same tract chimney, then reports on your own copy of it.
Chimney Sweep in Lakewood
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.
Learn MoreFireplace Inspection in Lakewood
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 Lakewood
Ash, soot and stains cleared out of the firebox and off the glass and surround.
Learn MoreGas Fireplace Cleaning in Lakewood
Burner, pilot, logs and glass cleaned, with a carbon monoxide check before we leave.
Learn MoreGas Fireplace Repair in Lakewood
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 Lakewood
Gaskets, firebrick, baffle and glass on a wood stove, checked and replaced as needed.
Learn MoreGas Logs in Lakewood
Gas logs sized to your firebox, for a fireplace you would rather switch on than build.
Learn MoreWhat we tell Lakewood owners
A handful of floor plans built this city, and some models left the fireplace out. Where one exists, it is likely brick or block of about the same age, nearly 90 percent of homes here being pre-1980. Knowing that helps us explain what to check. With the sea not far away, May and June mornings stay cool and crowns stay damp. Newport-Inglewood runs just southwest, through Long Beach and Signal Hill, so old brick is always worth checking.
What We Look at First
The stack as the floor plan built it, then the crown and any damp staining.
What Cannot Wait
A brick stack cracked along a joint, soaked framing beside the chimney, a smoke chamber that has crumbled.
What Can Wait
Faint gray staining, an older gas log set that still works, chipped brick on the raised hearth.
Next Door
We also go to Cerritos, Long Beach, Paramount.
Not Sure?
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