Chimney Liner & Cap Installation in College Park, GA

Chimney Liner & Cap Installation for College Park Homeowners

The College Park historic district is one of the biggest collections of pre-1935 housing in the southeast, and the chimneys reflect it: tall, multi-flue stacks on substantial Victorian and Craftsman homes, often serving three or four fireplaces from a single structure. That is a different job from a modern single-flue chimney. Multi-flue stacks need each flue checked separately, they are more prone to cross-contamination between flues when a divider wall fails, and their crowns are large enough that when one cracks, a great deal of water gets in. Set against that, the newer building out toward Godby Road is straightforward by comparison.

Large pre-1935 multi-flue stacks in the historic district serving several fireplaces each, alongside newer, simpler construction further out.

The liner is what stands between the fire and the timber frame of your house. Plenty of intown Atlanta bungalows were built with no liner at all — just brick — and plenty more still carry the original clay tiles, which crack when they are heated unevenly and open a path for heat and flue gases into the surrounding structure. A stainless liner sized to the appliance solves that permanently, and it usually improves the draft as a side effect, because most old flues are far larger than what a modern insert or gas appliance actually wants. The cap is the cheaper end of the same principle: an open flue is an invitation to rain, leaves and every nesting bird in the neighbourhood.