Chimney repair in Central Beach, explained before you approve

Cracked firebrick and gaps in the firebox joints bring many calls to our family team, and we repair both in Central Beach. We are locally owned. Firebox work sits beside the sweeping, damper repairs and masonry we provide. We also service gas and electric fireplaces, so we can tell you whether the damage stops at the firebox or reaches past it.

The firebox is the part that takes the fire directly. Where a masonry firebox is lined with firebrick, the building code's fireplace section calls for that brick to be laid in refractory mortar, a mortar made for high heat. Ordinary mortar and household patching products are not a substitute, because they break down where the fire touches them.

Hairline cracks are common and are not all urgent. Open joints, loose or missing brick and a back wall that has started to lean are a different matter. They let heat reach masonry that was not built to take it directly. A factory-built fireplace is different again. Its firebox is lined with panels made for that model, and the maker's listing controls what may replace them.

We read the model plate before quoting, and we order panels that match it. Tell us whether you burn wood often, whether pieces of brick or panel have fallen onto the grate and whether you have seen light through any crack. Please do not light a fire to test it. You pay nothing for the inspection or for the written estimate that follows, and each price is set out upfront.

Give us the go-ahead on the firebox work within 72 hours of the inspection visit and a 10% discount is applied. We clean out the old mortar and brick and haul the waste away. The last thing we hand you is a written record of the work, and the repair carries our workmanship warranty.