Chimney Cap Repairs For Garden City Park

What’s The Need For Chimney Cap Repairs?

A chimney cap repair is usually your Garden City Park home’s first line of protection against water leakage. Your chimney cap is one of the most neglected sections when it comes to the adequate conservation of a dwelling. Most clients don’t give a lot of thought to their Garden City Park home’s (or business’s) chimney caps integrity. When roof or chimney cap repair becomes leaky, it loses it imperviousness and resistance to water and causes a host of other weakening. Chimney cap repairs are most commonly made with cement or thin copper, galvanized steel or aluminum sheets that are typically mounted beneath the roof’s shingles. Warped or missing chimney cap parts can lead to serious water leak and severe harm to your Garden City Park residence and parts of the chimney.

A chimney cap repair is typically made with concrete or metal – spread or screwed to fit securely around the top of your chimney. If water looks allowed to enter into your structure through a gap caused by damages or missing chimney cap, there should be major cause for leaks. Expressway provides chimney cap inspections, preventative maintenance and chimney inspections to protect your chimney as well as the roof and attic from the inevitable rust caused by excessive water penetration.

Chimney Cap Damage To Check For

Following a storm, walk around your structure and test for water stains and in your house and ceilings using a flashlight – if possible. Water stains could indicate the start of your chimney leaking damage. Our professional chimney techs will find the source of the harm and fix it ASAP. Leaky roofs almost always cause additional damage to other parts of your dwelling which can include the growth of unhealthy mold and mildew… and that will then cost you thousands more to remedy. Are there shrinking, blistering or curling shingles? Is there any water damaging into the attic or into walls or down stairs that you can see?

Fixing Your Own Chimney Cap

Here in the NY tri-state area (and especially in Garden City Park) we get quite a bit of sun, wind, sleet, rain and snow every year. Harm producers definitely include powerful winds that can free the chimney cap material. Rust weakening are common with certain types of chimney cap metals. Workers on a Garden City Park roof may also inadvertently damage or dislodge the chimney cap. If your chimney’s cap appears problematic, it can quickly become a major harm if left passed over. With so much to gain from having precisely installed or maintained chimney cap, it’s always important to ensure that your chimney cap is kept in efficient working order.

Some Signs A Chimney Needs A New Cap:

• If your chimney cap is harmed
• When your chimney cap seems to be rusted or rotted through
• If your chimney cap appears coming loose
• the chimney cap seems to be covered with roofing tar
• You’re installing new roof shingles – or having other roofing work done
• the chimney seems to be leaking water into your structure.

Chimney cap repairs for your house should last about 20 years in Garden City Park’s climate due to the amount of wear and tear caused by New York’s weather.

Chimney Cap Inspections

Many of the chimneys that our chimney experts repair are the same chimney caps that were installed when the chimney was first built. Most of the time, this can be replaced by cutting out the old metal chimney cap with an angle grinder and replacing it with a new chimney cap. . Missing mortar joints also need to be repaired and or re-tuckpointed so that the water can readily pass by the chimney cap.

Our team will visit the property and assess the integrity of the dwelling’s chimney system, identify whether the chimney cap needs to be repaired. Chimney inspection looks to be a small maintenance task, but it’s one that you can’t afford to overlook. Expressway regularly repairs chimney caps that can no longer do its job in cushioning a structure from damaging water.

If there are undiscovered cracks or compromises in this masonry, the problems can be faster and more pervasive. Wall boards, insulation, electrical wiring and other dwelling building products can be seriously broken by regular water seepage. Because leakage begins below the roof and out of sight, clients may not become aware of the problem until a major safety and property risk occurs. We suggest you call Expressway to evaluate your roof and chimney soon.

Chimney Cap Repairs By Expressway

One chimney company doesn’t fit all. This is one of the keys to why it’s not advisable for the average customer to perform a chimney cap installation on their own chimney. Part of Expressway’s chimney inspection service includes a close up watch at the chimney cap. Expressway would love to handle all of the chimney cap problems and other dwelling needs. However, our technicians know that there are a ton of other chimney companies options to choose from. Why choose Expressway? We could talk about quality and the ‘Expressway Advantage’. We let Expressway’s work speak for itself. Feel free to check out our Google reviews – or even look at some of Expressway’s previous work. Our technicians know that after you take a look, you will see just how much satisfaction our pros take in each project. If it’s time for a chimney cap inspection or you know there’s trouble with the chimney cap, you can contact Expressway Roofing & Chimney at 631.772.6363.