Chimney Service Requests in Ennis

Local dossier · Ennis, TX

There is a specific thing that happens to old chimneys when a house gets a new roof, and on Ennis's older brick stock it is worth checking for. When a roof is replaced — particularly when a low-slope roof is rebuilt at a steeper pitch, or when layers are added over the original — the roof line rises while the chimney does not. A stack that terminated correctly above the original roof can end up marginal or short against the new one, and the fireplace that drew perfectly for eighty years starts misbehaving in wind for reasons nobody connects to the roofer who came two summers earlier. The same thing happens where a rear extension or a second storey goes up within ten feet of the chimney. It is measurable against a simple rule — three feet above the penetration, two feet above anything within ten feet — and where a stack falls short the remedy is extending it, which on period masonry means matching the brick and rebuilding the crown as part of the same operation. Prime Chimney Experts measures it rather than assuming the original builder got it right, because on a house of this age the original builder very often did, and something since has changed it.

Ennis's older brick housing stock, the streets around the historic rail-town core, and rural-edge properties beyond.