Chimney Cap Repairs For East Shoreham

What’s The Need For Chimney Cap Repairs?

Chimney caps cushion the spot atop the chimney from leaking water where the roof meets the chimney. Your chimney cap is one of the most forgotten areas when it comes to the adequate prolongation of a dwelling. Most clients don’t give a lot of thought to their East Shoreham home’s (or business’s) chimney caps integrity. When roof or chimney cap repair becomes broken, it loses it imperviousness and resistance to water and begins a host of other leaks. Chimney cap repairs are most commonly made with cement or thin copper, galvanized steel or aluminum sheets that are frequently mounted beneath your roof’s shingles. Warped or missing chimney cap parts can lead to serious water leak and severe harm to your East Shoreham residence and parts of the chimney.

A chimney cap’s purpose is to hamper rain water and melting snow from leaking your residence. When installed exactly, proper chimney cap repairs will serve you for many years. Expressway provides chimney cap inspections, preventative maintenance and chimney inspections to protect your chimney as well as your roof and attic from the inevitable deterioration caused by excessive water infiltration.

Chimney Cap Problems To Evaluate For

Following a storm, walk around your home and test for water stains and in your house and ceilings using a flashlight – if possible. If, when it starts to rain, you notice that there are areas in your home that start to leak, call your local roofing experts immediately. Our trained chimney techs will find the source of the issue and replace it ASAP. On your home’s roof, do you see detrimental mold, algae, mildew or fungus growth? If you notice unhealthy mold, shrinking, blistering or curling shingles, reach an expert chimney cap chimney company such as Expressway to maintain your dwelling’s roof and recommend an appropriate course of action before it’s too late.

How Does A Chimney Cap Become Alarming?

Here in the NY tri-state area (and especially in East Shoreham) we get quite a bit of sun, wind, sleet, rain and snow every year. Squirrels, raccoons and other animals may be tearing at the chimney cap to get in. Imprecisely-installed chimney caps or poor-quality cement or caulking used in the sealing process. Old age – i.e. many cold winters and hot summers. A chimney cap that has rusted from the elements will eventually cause damage to the roofing system, as your chimney cap repair helps stall water problems from happening to your roof deck and shingle system. With so much to gain from having properly installed or maintained chimney cap, it’s always important to ensure that the chimney cap is kept in good working order.

Some Signs The Chimney Needs A New Cap:

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

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

Chimney Cap Inspections

Many of the chimneys that we repair are the same chimney caps that were installed when the chimney was originally built. Most of the time, this can be repaired 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 addressed and or re-tuckpointed so that the water can freely pass by the chimney cap.

Expressway’s team will visit your property and assess the integrity of the home’s chimney system, identify whether your chimney cap needs to be repaired. If your chimney’s cap is rusting and breaking away from the roof, our team will replace all of the areas around the places in question and help to keep your property’s roof preserved. Chimney leakage most commonly begins to erode chimney masonry below the roofline.

If there are undiscovered cracks or compromises in this masonry, the damage can be faster and more pervasive. Wall boards, insulation, electrical wiring and other property building products can be heavily harmed by regular water penetration. Because breakage happens below the roof and out of sight, property owners may not become aware of possible damage until a major safety and property risk occurs. We suggest you call Expressway to check your roof and chimney soon.

The Chimney Repair Pros

One chimney company doesn’t fit all. This is one of the answers to why it’s not advisable for the average property owner to perform a chimney cap repair on their own house. When Expressway’s highly-skilled chimney repair technicians build and construct new chimney cap, our technicians take the time to make sure the material chimney cap looks to be a good fit – in terms of shape and size for the chimney and roof. Our chimney experts have the right tools and training and take pride in doing every job exactly the first time. However, our technicians know that there are hundreds of other companies options to choose from. Why choose us? Our pros could talk about quality and the ‘Expressway Advantage’. We let our 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 we take in each project. If it’s time for a chimney cap inspection or you know there’s trouble with your chimney cap, you can call us at 631.772.6363.