Lawndale Chimneys: What Can Wait, What Cannot
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Homesure Jobs for Lawndale Homes
Owner or renter in Lawndale, an inspection gives you an account of the chimney you can share.
Chimney Sweep in Lawndale
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.
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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.
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Gaskets, firebrick, baffle and glass on a wood stove, checked and replaced as needed.
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Gas logs sized to your firebox, for a fireplace you would rather switch on than build.
Learn MoreWhat we tell Lawndale owners
Renters are the large majority here, and many lots hold several units. A house with its own fireplace is often an older one with brick. If you own that house, or live in it, you get the same plain account of how it is doing. Sea air slowly corrodes steel caps and their fasteners here, while frost barely shows up. The fault that matters is the Newport-Inglewood, a few miles east, because brick from the 1940s and 1950s was not built with it in mind.
What We Look at First
The steel cap and its fasteners, then 1940s brick and the mortar around the flue.
What Cannot Wait
A cap with corroded fasteners over a shared yard, gaps around the flue, firebrick that has come loose.
What Can Wait
Light rust on steel, weathered brick that scrapes clean, a dull old grate.
Next Door
We also go to Redondo Beach, Alondra Park, Hawthorne.
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