Chimney Inspection & Upkeep in Chamblee, GA

Chimney Inspection & Upkeep for Chamblee Homeowners

Chamblee's residential core — Huntley Hills, Keswick Village, Sexton Woods — is largely 1950s and 1960s ranch, and the chimneys are honest, simple, single-flue masonry. There is nothing exotic to them, which is precisely why they get forgotten. The typical Chamblee call is a house that has been in one family for decades with a fireplace used steadily and swept once, twenty years ago, or a newer owner who has inherited that history. Sixty-year-old crowns are also right at the age where the original concrete has cracked through and started letting water into the stack.

1950s-1960s single-flue ranch masonry; original crowns now at the age where they crack through and admit water.

An inspection is the only part of chimney work that produces evidence rather than an opinion. A Level 1 covers everything readily accessible and is what an annual check normally means. A Level 2 adds a camera run through the full length of the flue and is what you want whenever something has changed — a property sale, a new appliance, a chimney fire, an earthquake or a storm. In Atlanta the sale case comes up constantly, because the housing stock intown is old enough that lenders and buyers' agents ask, and the answer needs to be a document with photographs in it rather than a verbal assurance from the seller.