Costa Mesa Chimneys, Checked From the Cap Down
Ask for a Costa Mesa Roof Check
Send your name, number and street. We call back with a Costa Mesa day and ask whether the chimney is brick or a metal chase.
Costa Mesa ZIP Codes We Visit
Give us the street when you call. In a coastal ZIP, the roof check gives more time to rust on the cap and flashing.
What to Book in Costa Mesa
Before a remodel starts on an older Mesa Verde home in Costa Mesa, add an inspection to the roof check.
Chimney Sweep in Costa Mesa
Creosote and soot out of the flue, after the cap and crown have been checked from the roof.
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Roof first, then the flue: cap, crown, flashing and liner, with a rust note on every metal part.
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Crown, mortar and liner repair, starting with the top of the stack where sea air and rain get in.
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Firebox, refractory panels and damper, including the damper hinge that damp air rusts shut.
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Refractory, damper and hearth repairs, in the order the inspection photos set out.
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Camera scan for a sale or after a quake, with the roof-level photos a buyer will ask about.
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Stainless caps with spark arrestor mesh, the metal grade picked for how close you are to the water.
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Step and counter flashing at the roof line, in metal that will not stain the brick in sea air.
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Repointing and brick work where salt and damp have softened the joints near the top of the stack.
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Partial or full rebuilds when the top courses are too far gone to repoint.
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Firebox, glass and hearth cleaned, with the damper worked open and shut before we leave.
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Burner, pilot, logs and glass, plus a look at the vent cap on the outside wall or roof.
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Pilot, thermocouple, valve and ignition faults, including corroded contacts in coastal homes.
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New surround, mantel or insert conversion, with the flue checked before the finish work goes on.
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Gas, wood or electric inserts with a stainless liner and a cap rated for the coast.
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Auger, igniter, blower and control board work on pellet stoves.
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Baffles, firebrick, gaskets and stove pipe, with the pipe's exterior run checked for rust.
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Vented or ventless log sets sized to the room, with the gas line and damper clamp.
Learn MoreWhat the roof check finds in Costa Mesa
Eastside keeps older homes and midcentury cottages near Newport, and Mesa Verde has fifties and sixties tracts. Fewer than half of units are detached, and infill rebuilds usually use gas, so true masonry chimneys are mostly in those two areas. Salt reaches this city most strongly on the Newport side, and steel caps and flashing rust faster than inland. The 1933 Long Beach shaking started offshore by Newport Beach, not far away, on the Newport-Inglewood Fault.
The Houses
On our Costa Mesa visits: Eastside older homes and midcentury cottages, Mesa Verde tracts, apartments, condos, rebuilt homes with gas fireplaces.
On the Roof
Rust on Eastside caps and flashing, crown and mortar in Mesa Verde, and flue tops on gas rebuilds.
Which Metal
On the Eastside, 316 stainless or copper; further from Newport, a standard stainless cap often does the job.
Same Day, Nearby
Costa Mesa visits often share a day with Huntington Beach, Corona del Mar, Balboa Peninsula.
Start at the Top
Book a roof check for your Costa Mesa chimney.
One visit covers the roof check, the sweep and the inspection. The photos and the rust note come with it.