Chimney Repair for Warren chimneys
Warren's chimneys span two eras. Mid-century homes typically have a brick chimney with clay tile liners serving the furnace and a fireplace. Larger newer homes often have big masonry fireplace chimneys, prefabricated fireplaces in chases finished with siding, brick or stone veneer, or both, sometimes more than one per house.
Stone-veneered chases and chimneys can trap water if the cap, crown, chase cover or flashing is not right, and the damage can show inside walls before it is visible outside. Asset Roofing & Chimney inspects and repairs crowns, caps, chase covers, flashing and masonry, installs liners and waterproofs porous brick and stone.
Warren housing
Warren's housing ranges from 1950s through 1970s ranches, split-levels and colonials on large wooded lots to large late-20th and 21st-century homes with complex rooflines, tall walls, dormers, turrets or bay roofs and masonry or stone-veneer fireplace chimneys. Some larger homes carry cedar shakes or metal accent roofs over bays and porches. Most residential roofs are asphalt shingle, and the office and corporate buildings have large membrane roofs.
Weather & exposure
The Watchung ridges give Warren varied terrain, with homes on slopes and hilltops exposed to wind and homes in hollows under heavy tree canopy. Wooded lots drop leaves and limbs and keep roofs shaded. Winters are colder and snowier than the coastal parts of the region, with ice dams on complex roofs and freeze-thaw cycles on masonry. Summer thunderstorms bring wind and heavy rain.
Repair, repoint or rebuild in Warren
We inspect the chimney or chase from the roof and inside, including crown or chase cover, cap, masonry or veneer, flashing at the roofline and the flue. Typical repairs include a new chase cover, crown rebuild, cap, new flashing and repointing.
Where water has gotten behind veneer or masonry has deteriorated deeply, we discuss partial rebuilding. Liners are installed where the flue serves an appliance and the existing liner has failed.
