Chimney Service Requests in Fair Oaks Ranch

Local dossier · Fair Oaks Ranch, TX

Building a cricket properly on a complex custom roof is more involved than the code line suggests, and it is worth knowing what a correct one is before accepting a quote. It is a small ridged structure behind the chimney, framed rather than formed from sealant, with its ridge running from the back of the chimney to the roof above and its two planes falling away to each side at a pitch that sheds. It has to be flashed at three junctions — to the chimney, to each roof plane, and along its own ridge — and on a custom roof it frequently has to intersect a valley or a dormer that was not designed with it in mind. The failure modes are consistent: a cricket framed too shallow so water sits rather than runs, one flashed to the chimney with sealant rather than counterflashing let into a joint, and one that discharges into a valley without the capacity to take it. Prime Chimney Experts specifies and coordinates the detail with the roofer rather than assuming it, because a cricket is the one component that belongs to both trades and is therefore built by neither.

Large custom homes on wooded lots spanning Kendall, Bexar and Comal counties, with the complex roof geometry that goes with them.