Chimney Services in Cerritos, CA
Almost the whole city went up between 1965 and 1985, which makes the chimney problems here remarkably consistent. Licensed, insured, and available 24 hours a day.
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Chimney Service in Cerritos
Cerritos is the most uniform housing stock we work in, and that makes it easy to predict. This was Dairy Valley until 1967, and what replaced the dairies was two decades of continuous tract building through to the mid-eighties. The consequence for us is that Cerritos is factory-built country. The great majority of these fireplaces are prefabricated metal units venting through a Class A metal chimney inside a framed and stuccoed chase, not full masonry. They fail completely differently. There is no mortar to repoint and no crown to recast; instead there is a galvanised sheet chase cover on top, and after forty years those have almost universally rusted, ponded and started leaking straight down inside the chase where nobody can see it. The water then rots the framing and corrodes the chimney sections. We replace a great many chase covers in stainless here. The other Cerritos issue is age of appliance: a 1978 factory-built firebox has a service life, and refractory panels that have cracked through are not repairable by patching.
1965-1985 tract housing, predominantly factory-built fireboxes in stuccoed chases with rusting galvanised chase covers.
Neighborhoods We Serve
- Cerritos Park East
- College Park
- Bloomfield
- Casa de Cerritos
Around Cerritos
- Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
- Los Cerritos Center
- Cerritos Sculpture Garden
ZIP Codes Covered
- 90703
Our Services in Cerritos
Every service we offer is available throughout Cerritos and the surrounding area.
Chimney Sweeping in Cerritos
Full creosote and soot removal from firebox to cap, under HEPA containment, with photos of what came out.
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Level 1 and Level 2 inspections with internal camera survey and a written report you can hand to a buyer or an insurer.
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Repointing, firebox rebuilds, crown replacement and structural masonry repair on brick and block chimneys.
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Stainless caps and spark arrestors fitted, and cracked mortar crowns cut off and recast with a proper overhang.
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Stainless liner systems installed where the original clay flue is cracked, undersized, or gone.
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Service, cleaning and safety checks on gas log sets, inserts and direct-vent fireplaces, including leak and CO testing.
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Cerritos Questions
Yes, and in Cerritos that is most of what we do. A stuccoed chase houses a factory-built metal chimney, and it needs a stainless chase cover, a proper storm collar and cap, and periodic inspection of the firebox refractory. It is different work from masonry but it is the same trade.
Nine times out of ten in Cerritos it is the chase cover. The original galvanised cover has rusted or ponded, water runs down inside the chase, and it shows up on the ceiling before anyone thinks to look at the top of the chimney. A stainless replacement with a proper drip edge and cross break solves it.
The NFPA standard is an inspection every year regardless of use, with sweeping whenever there is measurable buildup. Most households here burn ten to thirty fires a season and need a sweep every one to two years. Burning little is not the same as burning nothing, and short cool fires actually lay down creosote faster than long hot ones.
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