Chimney Repair for Kearny chimneys
Kearny's older detached houses commonly have a brick chimney rising through a pitched shingle roof, sometimes serving a fireplace as well as the heating system. Over the decades, freeze-thaw, missing crowns and wind off the Meadowlands have worn down mortar joints and the top courses of many of them.
We inspect, clean, repoint, rebuild, reline and cap chimneys in Kearny, install new crowns and chase covers, waterproof masonry, and replace the step and counterflashing that ties the chimney into a shingle roof. We also seal or remove chimneys that are no longer used.
Kearny housing
Compared with most of Hudson County, Kearny has a high share of detached houses. The residential neighborhoods are mostly early and mid-20th-century wood-frame one- and two-family homes with gabled or hipped shingle roofs, dormers and front porches, along with brick houses, some attached rows and small apartment buildings. Mixed-use buildings line Kearny Avenue. The Meadowlands section is dominated by warehouses, distribution and industrial buildings with large low-slope roofs.
Weather & exposure
Kearny's residential area sits on a rise above the Passaic River, while its eastern side opens onto the flat Meadowlands, where wind crosses miles of marsh with little to slow it. Pitched roofs facing that direction lose shingles in storms, and big industrial roofs see uplift at their edges. Winter snow and ice form ice dams on the eaves of older, poorly ventilated houses, and freeze-thaw cracks chimney crowns.
Repair, repoint or rebuild in Kearny
For fireplace chimneys, we start with inspection and cleaning. For all chimneys, we check the crown, cap, mortar, flashing and flue, then recommend the work needed, from repointing and a new cap to a rebuild or liner.
Planning a new roof? Have the chimney repaired first so the new flashing is installed into sound brick.
