Chimney Repair in Windsor, CA

Windsor sits in country that has been evacuated more than once in recent memory, and the Kincade fire in 2019 came close enough that most people here need no reminder. That changes the priority order on chimney work.

A chimney is a hole in your roof. In an ember storm a missing or corroded spark arrestor is an entry point for burning debris, and it works in both directions, since the same screen is what stops your own fire throwing embers onto a dry hillside. Properly fitted chimney caps and spark arrestors are the single cheapest piece of wildfire preparation on most houses, and they are frequently the piece that has been overlooked.

We check the screen mesh, the cap seal and the chase cover together, because water getting into a chase and rusting it out is usually what causes the cap to fail in the first place.

A common assumption in Windsor is that a house built in the 1990s or 2000s is too new to have a chimney problem. In practice a thirty-year-old prefabricated fireplace is well into the second half of its life, and chase covers on homes of that era are frequently the first thing to fail.

Windsor’s newer homes also tend to have the outdoor space to make outdoor fireplace construction worthwhile, which is some of the most enjoyable work we do.