Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Why Every Home Requires Regular Chimney Repair NJ

By Olivia Cross


Chimneys are essential parts of our homes that get exposure to the vagaries of nature every day. They also face sweltering heat from home heating fire, winter chilling cold or the pull and push arising from strong winds. They are, therefore, bound to suffer imperfections and damage that have to be detected and repaired before they become a danger to the home and people. Chimney repair NJ experts are always a call away to fix these kinds of problems.

Those New Jersey professionals who you time after time engage to work on your residence may often tell you that your chimney needs re-lining, cleaning up and complete re-building. They will tell you that routine repairs and maintenance is a requirement for the safety of your residence.

Through out an entire winter, our chimneys have accumulations of soot and creosote that have harmful toxins. Most homeowners tend to forget or even overlook that chimneys have to be cleaned out when winter passes often because keeping warm is not urgent. If winter comes again to find the dangerous chemicals present and stuck upon the bricks the entire year, it would create dangerous places out of fireplaces the moment they are active once again.

Your chimney under the vagaries of the weather will have had its structure compromised. The outer parts of mortar joints called pointing will have voids between bricks that will allow water to seep in. Ones chimney repair expert will have this fixed with simple re-pointing. They may also need replacing old bricks which are dilapidated or replace the entire stucco or brick chimney if it can not be repaired.

Another prominent threat to our homes is posed by old flue liners. These liners function is to prevent heat from making any combustible material around our chimneys getting on fire. These liners wear away with time which means they can no longer provide their protection and need replacement. Masonry and chimney sweeps should be able to detect crumbling or cracked liners and replace them where the need arises.

Liners made of clay tiles will break or crack sooner or later. This will allow moisture to seep through leading to structural problems. Smoke contains sulfur that could mix with the moisture creating a corrosive mixture that eats small holes on liners. To keep the home safe, a system of secure inner lining needs to be in place to prevent carbon dioxide, creosote, smoke and moisture from leaking through brick and mortar into the home.

It may have happened that no inner liner was ever installed and if it did, it deteriorated as time lapsed. Chimney malfunction where it does not pull smoke out from the inner house points to liner problems. Smelling fireplaces means creosote build-up is too fast again the liner being the problem. A professional would be able to fix this with no time.

Where your chimney is involved, temporally repairs or corner cutting should never be acceptable. Full repairs and maintenance will protect your home from burning and protect your family from health problems associated with toxins.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment