Chimney and duct work in Monmouth County, NJ

Monmouth County is the furthest ground we cover, and Middletown Township alone contains several different kinds of house — waterfront at Belford and Port Monmouth, older stock at Navesink, post-war neighbourhoods inland. Exposure varies enormously across it, and exposure is what most of the findings come back to.

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Crown work in progress on a brick stack with buckets and materials on the roof

The short answer

Brushwork, surveys, repairs and laundry ducts across the township, and exposure decides more here than the age of the masonry does.

What we find across Monmouth County

Two patterns run alongside each other. On the exposed properties it is weather: caps working loose, chase covers rusting from the seam outwards, flashing beaten by wind-driven rain from a direction the original detail never allowed for, and mortar opening on the weather face well before the sheltered one. Further inland the picture becomes more conventional and deposit comes back into it, because real wood-burning is more common in this housing than in the denser towns closer to base — and a fireplace that is genuinely used through a winter produces the creosote a decorative one never will. That difference is why the first question here is how the fireplace is used rather than how old the chimney is.

New lead step flashing worked into the mortar joints where a chimney meets the roof

The towns we cover in Monmouth County

What Bloomfield homeowners say

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Matthew Jones

Honest good working local company. The amount they quoted me on the phone was the price I paid after the service was completed.

Megan Gough

Expert setup, high-powered vacuums, and absolutely no dust residue. Excellent work.

Lucille Jensen

Water had been leaking around the chimney flashing, but the repair solved it completely. The crew sealed and reinforced the affected area with precision. Rain is no longer a concern. The workmanship looks strong and durable.

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Questions from Monmouth County

How far do you come into Monmouth County?

Middletown Township has a page of its own and it is the furthest town in the service area. It is worth ringing rather than assuming either way, and it is far easier to fit in when it is planned rather than urgent.

We burn wood properly all winter. How often should we sweep?

Once a season is the usual answer for that pattern of use, sooner if the wood has not had a summer to dry or the fire gets damped down overnight. This is one of the towns where genuine wood-burning puts deposit back at the top of the list.

Our chimney takes all the weather. What should we watch?

The top of it. Crown, cap and flashing on an exposed elevation take more weather in one winter than a sheltered stack takes in three, and finding a lifted cap in October is a very different job from finding it in February.

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