Chimney Liner & Cap Installation in Stone Mountain, GA

Chimney Liner & Cap Installation for Stone Mountain Homeowners

Stone Mountain's historic village holds late-1800s housing with original masonry, and some of it uses local granite rather than brick, which behaves differently: granite is far less absorbent than brick but the mortar between it still fails, and repointing stone is a more exacting job than repointing brickwork. Out through Rockbridge and Hidden Hills the housing is 1970s and 1980s subdivision with conventional flues. The village properties are the ones that need specialist attention, and they are also the ones most likely to have had a well-meaning previous repair done in the wrong material.

Late-1800s village masonry including local granite alongside 1970s-1980s subdivision flues; previous repairs in the wrong mortar are common.

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.