Chimney Repair for Totowa chimneys
Most of Totowa's older homes have brick chimneys serving a furnace or boiler and often a fireplace. After decades of weather, crowns crack, mortar erodes, caps go missing and flashing separates from the brick. Many flues built for oil now vent gas appliances.
We inspect, clean, repoint, reline and rebuild chimneys, install caps and crowns, reflash at the roofline and waterproof exposed brick. On commercial buildings, we can repair or remove old masonry chimneys that pass through flat roofs. Estimates are free, and we are licensed and insured.
Totowa housing
Totowa's residential areas are mostly single-family: capes, ranches, split-levels and colonials from the postwar decades, with some older homes and two-families and newer townhomes. Commercial and industrial buildings along Route 46 and other main roads include warehouses, offices, showrooms and retail with large flat roofs, rooftop HVAC units and internal drains. Most older homes have brick chimneys.
Weather & exposure
Totowa's lower areas along the Passaic River have a documented flooding history, which affects basements and grounds more than roofs but makes drainage important. Large flat commercial roofs are exposed to ponding after heavy rain, summer heat that ages membranes and wind uplift at edges. Residential streets have mature trees, and nor'easters and freeze-thaw winters take their usual toll.
Repair, repoint or rebuild in Totowa
An inspection identifies what needs attention. Repoint sound brick, rebuild cracked crowns, rebuild loose tops and install stainless caps. Unlined or damaged flues get a stainless steel liner sized to the appliance. Abandoned chimneys on commercial roofs can be removed below the roofline and the roof patched over.
Coordinate chimney repairs with roof work so the new flashing goes into sound masonry.
