The Tudors, capes and colonials of southwest Nassau were built before your grandparents met — and their chimneys have been out in every nor'easter since. We sweep them, repoint them and keep them honest, on a schedule that fits around the LIRR.
One crew, one truck, every skill the stack needs — from the firebox behind your mantel to the crown over your roofline. Nothing subbed out, nobody you haven't met.
A winter of fires leaves the flue coated and slow. We brush it clean end to end while sealed HEPA suction keeps the living room out of it.
The check costs nothing and covers the whole system. When a sale or a doubt needs evidence, the camera goes down and the findings go on paper.
Ninety winters take a toll no patch can hide forever. We take a failing stack down to honest brick and raise it back true, matched to the house.
Old brick wants old-style mortar — softer, breathable, forgiving. We cut the dead joints out and refill with a mix the original mason would nod at.
An open flue swallows rain, sparrows and squirrels alike. Stainless caps and screens close the door; a sound crown sheds what the sky sends.
A stain by the mantel usually starts at the roofline. We find where the storm actually got in — flashing, crown or brick — and shut that door for good.
Unlined prewar flues and oil-to-gas conversions are the two big liner jobs in this zip code. Stainless, sized right, solves both for decades.
Cracked firebrick, tired dampers, gas sets burning the wrong color, inserts that never quite drew right — the indoor half of the trade, handled.
A chimney built in 1935 doesn't complain loudly — it drops hints. Catch the hint and the fix stays small; miss it and the winter finishes the argument.
Everything explained, everything priced, nothing sprung on you afterward.
Weekdays seven to seven a person answers. Grab a slot before the commute or after it.
The whole system, checked and explained face to face. The $149 inspection report exists only if you order it.
Safety work separated from someday work, each with its own firm price before we start.
Work done, dust contained, debris gone, warranty on paper. The house looks untouched — the chimney doesn't.
One weekday call books the free check — before the first cold snap, before the closing date, before the next nor'easter goes looking for a way in.
(516) 209-2555Capes, Tudors and split-levels between Hendrickson Park and the Queens line — swept, sealed and set right.
The shop sits on East Hawthorne Avenue; the routes cover southwest Nassau and brush the Queens line.
A block or two past the map? Call (516) 209-2555 — Sunrise Highway carries us anywhere close.
Honestly free — that's the standing policy. The tech works hearth to cap — firebox, damper, the full flue, crown and brickwork — then explains every finding while he's still at the house. The inspection report is the part that costs money: $149 for the written version with photos, made for closings, insurers and your records, and only ever prepared when you ask.
It means softer brick, lime-heavy mortar and, very often, a flue that was never lined — built for coal, adapted for oil, converted to gas, and still wearing its original clay. These chimneys respond beautifully to sympathetic repointing and a properly sized stainless liner; they respond badly to hard modern mortar slapped on in a hurry.
Because gas exhaust is cooler and wetter than the oil exhaust the flue was sized for. The exhaust cools before it clears the top, condenses, and the acid in that damp goes to work on clay and mortar. It's the most common hidden problem we find in this zip code, and a stainless liner sized to the new equipment ends it.
Usually the chimney's. Sideways nor'easter rain finds split crowns, worn flashing and porous brick long before it finds a shingle defect. We locate the true entry point, repair exactly that, and treat soft masonry with a repellent that breathes so the wall dries out between blows.
Scratch one with a key — sound mortar shrugs, dead mortar pours. Grit collecting on the stoop, joints sitting back from the brick face, or daylight through a hairline all vote the same way. Caught early it's a tidy one-visit job that buys decades.
In full — say the word when booking and the certificate reaches your inbox before the appointment. Techs are background checked, and protection goes down inside before anything else happens.
Quiet, mostly. Cloths spread, opening sealed, HEPA vacuum humming for about an hour while the brushes work. The soot leaves in the canister, and the only visible change is a fireplace that pulls the way it used to.
Give the date to whoever answers (516) 209-2555 and the week rearranges itself. The free check typically lands inside two days, and the $149 inspection report follows within one business day. Hours are Monday to Friday, 7 to 7 — Saturdays and Sundays the shop rests, so budget the calendar accordingly.
Weekdays from seven to seven, the phone lands next to someone with brick dust on their sleeves.
Describe the smell, the stain, the sand on the stoop, or the closing date. Two minutes later you'll know whether a visit is called for and when we can be there.
(516) 209-2555 Tap to Call the BenchMonday to Friday, 7 AM through 7 PM
Saturday & Sunday the bench rests