Chimney Service Requests in Farmers Branch

Local dossier · Farmers Branch, TX

Farmers Branch is a conversion market. A large share of the brick ranches in Brookhaven were built to burn wood and now run gas logs, and the liner that job requires is the one most often skipped. A masonry flue sized for an open wood fire is enormous relative to what a gas appliance produces. Vent a modern gas set into it and the exhaust cools long before it reaches the top, condenses on the way, and puts moisture and acid into the masonry every hour the appliance runs. The damage is slow, internal and invisible, which is precisely why the shortcut is so common — nothing appears to be wrong for years. Prime Chimney Experts sizes the liner to the appliance from the manufacturer's own input rating rather than to the opening it is going into, runs it full length, insulates it where the calculation calls for it, and connects it positively at the appliance collar so there is no annulus for exhaust to sit in. The other half of a gas conversion is the damper. With vented gas logs the damper has to be permanently held open so the flue cannot be closed on a running appliance, and a missing clamp is one of the more genuinely unsafe things we find in this city. Mercer Crossing at the other end of Farmers Branch is new construction and needs almost none of this — we will tell you that rather than sell you a liner.

Brookhaven's established brick ranches at one end of the city and the new Mercer Crossing development at the other — sixty years of building age inside one set of city limits.