Chimney Leaks & Storm Damage in East Point, GA

Chimney Leaks & Storm Damage for East Point Homeowners

East Point is the closest city to our base, and we are there constantly. The housing runs from 1920s cottages around Historic College Town through post-war building in Jefferson Park and Colonial Hills, and a great deal of it has changed hands recently as buyers priced out of intown moved south. That turnover is why so many of our East Point calls are inspections rather than sweeps: someone has bought a house with a fireplace nobody has used in a decade and wants to know whether it is safe before they light it. Frequently the answer involves a crown that has been quietly failing for years.

1920s cottages and post-war housing with high recent turnover; deferred crown and flashing maintenance is the common finding.

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.