Santa Monica Chimneys: What Can Wait, What Cannot
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Homesure Jobs for Santa Monica Homes
Whoever you rent from in Santa Monica, an inspection gives you plain notes for the building owner.
Chimney Sweep in Santa Monica
Soot and creosote brushed out of the flue. If you cannot remember the last one, it is probably time.
Learn MoreChimney Inspection in Santa Monica
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 Santa Monica
The firebox, damper and smoke chamber, checked from inside the room.
Learn MoreFireplace Repair in Santa Monica
Cracked panels, a stuck damper, smoke coming into the room. We find the cause first.
Learn MoreChimney Level 2 Inspection in Santa Monica
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.
Learn MoreChimney Cap Installation in Santa Monica
A cover with a mesh screen on top of the flue. Keeps rain, leaves, animals and sparks where they belong.
Learn MoreChimney Flashing Repair in Santa Monica
A stain on the ceiling next to the chimney often starts here, where the roof meets the brick.
Learn MoreChimney Masonry Repair in Santa Monica
Loose or missing mortar and cracked brick, matched to what is already there.
Learn MoreChimney Rebuilds in Santa Monica
When the top of the chimney is too far gone to patch, we take it down and build it back.
Learn MoreFireplace Cleaning in Santa Monica
Ash, soot and stains cleared out of the firebox and off the glass and surround.
Learn MoreGas Fireplace Cleaning in Santa Monica
Burner, pilot, logs and glass cleaned, with a carbon monoxide check before we leave.
Learn MoreGas Fireplace Repair in Santa Monica
Will not light, will not stay lit, or the flame looks wrong. We trace it to the part.
Learn MoreFireplace Remodel in Santa Monica
A new surround, mantel or hearth, planned around what the firebox and flue can take.
Learn MoreFireplace Inserts in Santa Monica
A closed unit that sits in an open fireplace so the heat stays in the room.
Learn MorePellet Stove Repair in Santa Monica
Auger, igniter, blowers or an error code on the board. We find which one it is.
Learn MoreWood Stove Repair in Santa Monica
Gaskets, firebrick, baffle and glass on a wood stove, checked and replaced as needed.
Learn MoreGas Logs in Santa Monica
Gas logs sized to your firebox, for a fireplace you would rather switch on than build.
Learn MoreWhat we tell Santa Monica owners
Hardly one home in five is a house on its own lot, and around seven in ten households rent, so a fireplace often belongs to a building. Courtyard and early Ocean Park homes are still around too. Either way, you can pass our plain notes along. A fault named for Santa Monica crosses the city, and old masonry has no good answer to that. Summer heat is rare. Rain is what reveals things: broken crowns and bad flashing show themselves as leaks from November on.
What We Look at First
The building's old stack and flashing, then each unit's firebox in a courtyard building.
What Cannot Wait
Leaks at the flashing above a unit, old masonry loose along a walkway, a crack through a shared flue.
What Can Wait
Tired tile in a courtyard unit, faint staining, paint wearing from a historic surround.
Next Door
We also go to West Los Angeles, Culver City.
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