Chimney Liner & Cap Installation in Sandy Springs, GA

Chimney Liner & Cap Installation 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.

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.