Chimney Leaks & Storm Damage in Jonesboro, GA

Chimney Leaks & Storm Damage for Jonesboro Homeowners

Jonesboro's historic centre includes housing that predates the Civil War, and working on chimneys of that age is a different discipline — hand-formed brick, lime mortar, flues that were never lined because liners did not exist when they were built. Those homes deserve care and quite often deserve to be told that the safest answer is a stainless liner rather than trying to restore a flue to a standard it never met. The subdivisions further out toward Lake Spivey are conventional late-twentieth-century construction and much more routine. Knowing which you are dealing with before quoting matters more here than most places.

Pre-Civil War and Victorian masonry with unlined flues in the historic core; conventional late-century construction in the surrounding subdivisions.

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.