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Photos of chimney work

Crowns, caps, chase covers, masonry and fireplaces, with before and after photos where we have both.

Before and after

  • Carved stone fireplace mantel with scroll corbels and a sooty firebox holding charred gas logs
    Before
    Gas log set burning over lava rock inside a fireplace framed by a carved stone mantel with scroll corbels
    After

    Before: Charred gas logs in a sooty firebox. After: New gas log set burning.

  • Red brick fireplace with open bifold glass doors and an old, dusty gas log set
    Before
    Gas log set burning with tall flames inside a red brick fireplace with open bifold glass doors and a slate hearth
    After

    Before: Old, dusty gas logs. After: New gas log set.

  • Red brick chimney with a rust-stained, weathered crown and two clay flues, one with a black mesh cap
    Before
    The same red brick chimney with a smooth mortar crown and its black mesh cap back on
    After

    Before: Weathered, rust-stained crown. After: New mortar crown, cap back on.

  • Split-face block chimney with a lichen-stained, weathered crown and an uncapped square clay flue
    Before
    The same chimney crown coated with white sealant, seen from above
    After

    Before: Stained, weathered crown and no cap. After: Crown coated and sealed.

  • Brick chimney smeared with black tar, with broken brick pieces on the roof
    Before
    Rebuilt red and cream brick chimney with two flue caps and aluminum flashing on a brown shingle roof
    After

    Before: Tar smeared over crumbling brick. After: Rebuilt with a new crown, caps and flashing.

  • Fieldstone chimney with a cracked, weathered concrete crown and a tall stainless steel vent pipe
    Before
    The same fieldstone chimney with a new stainless steel cover and cap
    After

    Before: Cracked crown around the vent pipe. After: New stainless cover and cap.

  • Brick chimney with a lichen-covered crown, two clay flue tiles and rusted flashing
    Before
    The same brick chimney with a coated crown, flue covers and new black flashing
    After

    Before: Lichen on the crown and rusted flashing. After: Coated crown, flue covers and new flashing.

  • Rusted chase cover and chimney cap on a green metal chimney chase
    Before
    The same chimney chase painted brown with a new stainless chase cover and cap
    After

    Before: Rusted chase cover and cap. After: Chase painted, new stainless cover and cap.

  • Base of a brick chimney where beige step flashing meets the roof edge
    Before
    Chimney corner with its beige step flashing sealed against the brick
    After

    Before: The flashing where the chimney meets the roof. After: Flashing sealed along the brick.

Crowns and caps

  • Red brick chimney with a white concrete crown and a stainless steel cap on a gray shingle roof
    Brick chimney with a white crown and stainless cap
  • Hands using pliers to fasten a stainless steel chimney cap onto a flue above a white-coated crown
    Fastening a stainless cap above a coated crown
  • Tan brick chimney with a newly coated crown around a clay flue tile
    Newly coated crown around a clay flue tile
  • Fieldstone chimney with forms set around its top and a ladder on the roof
    Forms set around the top before the new crown
  • White painted brick chimney with a large stainless steel multi-flue cap beside a cupola
    Large stainless multi-flue cap on a white painted chimney
  • Brick chimney with two clay chimney pots and a metal flue cap above a wooded backyard
    Brick chimney with clay pots and a white crown

Masonry

  • Yellow scaffolding built up the side of a tall red brick chimney on a two-story house
    Scaffolding up the side of a tall brick chimney
  • Fieldstone chimney with two terra cotta chimney pots beside a large house and autumn trees
    Fieldstone chimney with terra cotta pots

Fireplaces, inserts and stoves

  • Wood-burning fireplace insert with a bright fire in a green marble surround
    Wood-burning insert with a fire going
  • Black wood-burning insert with nickel door trim in a white mantel above a slate hearth
    Wood-burning insert in a white mantel

Inside the flue

  • Gloved hand fitting an adapter plate connected to two stainless steel flexible liners inside a fireplace
    Fitting two stainless liners to an adapter plate
  • View down a square clay flue liner with orange walls streaked with soot
    Looking down a clay tile flue
  • View straight down a stainless steel chimney flue liner
    Looking down a stainless flue

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