Chimney Inspection & Upkeep in Sandy Springs, GA

Chimney Inspection & Upkeep for Sandy Springs Homeowners

Sandy Springs is where our work shifts from masonry to metal. A great deal of the housing here went up between the 1960s and the 1990s, and much of it uses factory-built fireplaces venting through a framed chase with a metal chase cover on top, rather than a solid brick stack. Those systems fail differently: the chase cover rusts through and pours water into the chase where nobody can see it, the metal flue sections corrode at the joints, and the whole assembly has a service life rather than lasting indefinitely like brick. Homeowners who have only ever owned masonry chimneys are often surprised that a prefab needs replacing at all.

1960s-1990s housing with a high proportion of factory-built fireplaces in framed chases; rusted chase covers and corroded metal flue sections are the recurring faults.

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.