Chimney Leaks & Storm Damage in Brookhaven, GA

Chimney Leaks & Storm Damage for Brookhaven Homeowners

Brookhaven is in the middle of a long rebuild, and it shows in the work. Ashford Park, Drew Valley and Brookhaven Fields still hold plenty of original 1940s and 1950s ranch housing with simple masonry chimneys, while alongside them are new houses on the same streets with sealed gas appliances and direct-vent systems that have nothing in common with a traditional flue. We end up doing genuinely different jobs two doors apart. The historic Brookhaven end adds a third category: substantial older homes around the club with tall multi-flue stacks that need proper masonry attention.

Original 1940s-1950s ranch masonry alongside new-build direct-vent gas systems on the same streets, plus larger multi-flue stacks in historic Brookhaven.

A chimney is the only part of a roof that is deliberately full of holes, and in a climate that delivers as much rain as Atlanta does, the odds catch up with it. Water gets in at four places: a cracked crown, failed flashing where the stack passes through the roof, a missing or damaged cap, and brickwork that has become porous enough to drink. The difficulty is that the stain inside the house rarely appears under the actual entry point — water tracks down the outside of the flue and shows up a storey below. Sealing where the stain is achieves nothing, which is why people end up paying for the same leak three times.