Chimney Repair Toronto

Chimney’s in Toronto are constantly being bombarded by intense, polarizing weather. Heat and rain from our humid summers. Sleet, snow and ice from our frigid winters. This causes a lot of deterioration on the average chimney, and leads to a lot of needed repair as well as a full chimney rebuild in many cases.

Homeowners are faced with the task of keeping an eye on their chimney, which isn’t always possible depending on it’s location, and maintaining the chimney so that it never becomes a liability.

Repair Or Rebuild

If a chimney has a slight amount of deterioration in the cap or perhaps some of the mortar joints are showing signs of wear, a basic repair can be performed on a chimney. This is usually done in the form of repointing, which is adding in mortar to the deep joints and holes that may have manifested. Adding concrete to the dome portion of the chimney that allows for water run off is also a common practice. It secures the flue tiles and makes sure that rain sheds properly off the cap.

If the chimney has a curve to it, or so many of the joints are deteriorated to the point of a structural problem, a rebuild is always necessary. Sometimes a few brick faces have actually fallen off the chimney. Many people want to replace only the obvious bricks, but this is usually a bad idea as the few brick faces are usually the tip of the ice berg. If you started hammering away at one or two obvious bricks, often a can of worms is opened up and you are forced into a rebuild in the end.

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Before and After Chimney Rebuild