Chimney Service Requests in Colleyville

Local dossier · Colleyville, TX

A crack in a chimney is not one thing, and telling the two apart is the most valuable thing an inspection does on Colleyville's larger estates. Cracking that follows the mortar joints, concentrates at the top courses, and appears on the weather-facing side is masonry wear — repointing territory, unremarkable on a thirty-year-old stack. Cracking that runs through the brick rather than around it, widens toward the top or the bottom, appears on one side only, or comes with the chimney visibly separating from the wall of the house, is movement. That is the ground under the chimney behaving differently from the ground under the house, and on the blackland clay under this part of Tarrant County it is not rare. Repointing a movement crack hides it and it reopens, which is why Prime Chimney Experts will not quote masonry repair on a stack showing those signs without saying plainly that the structural question comes first. We would rather lose the job to a foundation engineer than take money for a repair that fails. Where the movement is settled and historic rather than active, the masonry repair is legitimate — and establishing which of those you have is what the photographs and the measurements are for.

Heritage Glen, Hollybrook and Sutton Place — wooded lots and large brick-and-stone estates, mostly built from the 1990s onward.