Mid-century homes farther from downtown usually have a single brick chimney with a clay liner serving the heating system and sometimes a fireplace. Downtown condominium buildings add a third type: shared metal flues and vents through a flat roof that depend on boots and curbs for weather protection. Asset Roofing & Chimney inspects, repairs, relines, repoints, rebuilds and waterproofs all of these.
Repair, repoint or rebuild in Morristown
An inspection comes first. On an older Morristown chimney we look at the crown, cap, brick and mortar from the roof, check the flashing where it meets the shingles, and look at the flue from above and from the firebox or cleanout below. That tells us whether the fix is a crown rebuild and repointing, a flashing repair, a liner, or a partial rebuild of the section above the roofline.
If the chimney is leaning, the brick is spalling across large areas or the stack above the roof is loose, a rebuild from the roofline up is usually more cost-effective than piecemeal repairs. We match brick color and coursing as closely as available materials allow, which matters on a chimney that is visible from the street.
