Typically, cap and crown repairs cost the least ... Spalling is a fancy term that essentially just means your chimney brick is crumbling. To fix spalling, you often need to replace the bricks ...

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Salvo Metal Works, (866-713-3396), a Naperville, IL-based metal fabrication company, announces made-to-order chimney shrouds ...

You’ll need a screw or nut driver to remove the chimney cap, a tape measure to check your flue size, and a rope with a weight, to measure your flue height. Chimney caps are usually held on with ...

Your chimney pops up out of your roof, so it gets hit with all the weather and rain. Over time, water penetrating the brick and mortar will inflict some serious damage, so it’s a good idea to ...

We used to run a chimney division within our company and have seen a lot of bad work being done on both sides of brick walls and chimneys ... either a simple ridge cap or a cap and a ridge ...