Chimney Repair for Andover chimneys
Andover Borough's older houses mostly have brick chimneys that were built long before stainless liners or modern crowns. Many served wood or coal heat, then oil, then gas, and some now vent a furnace or water heater through a flue that was never sized for it. Outside, generations of Sussex County winters have worn the mortar and cracked the crowns.
Asset Roofing & Chimney inspects, cleans, repoints, rebuilds and relines chimneys in Andover. We rebuild crowns, install caps and chase covers, repair flashing, waterproof masonry and install liners sized to the appliance the chimney actually serves. We are licensed and insured, and estimates are free.
Andover housing
Andover's housing is mostly older village stock: 19th-century and early-1900s farmhouse-style homes, gabled houses with porches, and buildings along Route 206 that mix residential and commercial use. Many have steep gable roofs with asphalt shingles laid over older roofs, low-slope porch and rear-addition roofs, and brick chimneys that predate modern liners. Some later homes sit at the edges of the borough.
Weather & exposure
The borough sits in the valley along Route 206 rather than on an exposed ridge, so its roofs are somewhat sheltered from wind, but it shares Sussex County's cold winters, heavy snow and long freeze-thaw season. Mature trees overhang many older lots, and road spray and salt along the highway corridor add wear to buildings close to the road.
Repair, repoint or rebuild in Andover
If your Andover home has an older brick chimney, start with an inspection that covers both the outside and the inside of the flue. The crown, joints and flashing tell us how water is getting in, and the flue tells us whether the chimney is safe for the fireplace, stove or furnace attached to it.
Most chimneys here can be saved with repointing, a new crown, a cap and a breathable water repellent. If the top courses are loose or the stack is leaning, we rebuild from a sound course upward. Interior work usually means a stainless-steel liner sized to the appliance.
