Cypress Chimneys, Checked From the Cap Down
Ask for a Cypress Roof Check
Send your name, number and street. We call back with a Cypress day and ask whether the chimney is brick or a metal chase.
Cypress 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 Cypress
A sweep goes well with the roof check on a Cypress home from the seventies, so both ends of the flue are covered.
Chimney Sweep in Cypress
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 Cypress
Incorporated as Dairy City in 1956, Cypress has few prewar homes, and half were built by about 1971. Roughly a third of units are attached, so a chimney question may belong to an association, and rooftop photos give it something to act on. Marine layer mornings come through here, a few miles from the ocean, and summers stay milder than inland county. Dry gusts can take a cap off in the fall and winter months, and to the southwest runs the Newport-Inglewood fault.
The Houses
On our Cypress visits: detached homes from the seventies, condos, townhomes and apartments, few prewar houses.
On the Roof
Rust from marine mornings, cap fasteners for dry gusts, crowns and flashing on seventies stacks, and shared flues.
Which Metal
A few miles from the ocean, stainless pays off over galvanized, though full 316 is not needed on most Cypress homes.
Same Day, Nearby
Cypress visits often share a day with Los Alamitos, Hawaiian Gardens, Garden Grove.
Start at the Top
Book a roof check for your Cypress chimney.
One visit covers the roof check, the sweep and the inspection. The photos and the rust note come with it.