Chimney Repair in Brick, NJ
Ocean County Chimney Repair is a chimney repair company working in Brick, NJ, a short run from our base in Toms River. Sweeps, liners, leaks, crowns, flashing, repointing, and rebuilds, with the same crew on the roof from start to finish.
Brick built out fast after the Garden State Parkway opened in 1954, and most of the township's chimneys went up in the same three decades. A chimney from that era has now cycled through fifty to seventy New Jersey winters. Add the salt hanging over Barnegat Bay and the Metedeconk River and you get masonry that wears out sooner here than the same brick would ten miles inland.
Chimney repair for Brick's postwar building boom
Neighborhoods like Lake Riviera, Laurelton, and Baywood filled in between the 1950s and the 1980s, which means whole streets share the same construction methods and the same timeline. The original crown, the original cap, and the original mortar joints on these houses tend to reach the end of their service life within the same decade. When one neighbor needs repointing, the houses on either side are usually not far behind.
Waterfront sections of Brick also carry storm history. Hurricane Sandy came ashore in October 2012 and did major damage along the township's bay and river frontage. Chimneys that took wind driven salt water that week often looked fine afterward, but flashing seams and mortar joints that got soaked with brackish water corrode and erode faster for years. We check that history on every bay side roof we walk.
Repairs we do in Brick
The failures we see most across Brick
Crown cracking on 1960s and 70s masonry
Most Brick crowns were poured as a thin mortar wash rather than a proper concrete crown. After decades of freeze-thaw they crack, let water into the top courses of brick, and start the spalling cycle. We cut back the failed wash and cast a real overhanging crown so the top of the stack finally sheds water.
Bay side cap and damper corrosion
Galvanized caps and damper assemblies near Barnegat Bay and the Metedeconk rust out years ahead of schedule. Salt sits on the metal every day, not just during storms. We replace failed caps with stainless steel sized to the flue, because installing another galvanized cap here just books the same repair again.
Mortar joints past their first repointing
A chimney built in 1965 has often been repointed once already, sometimes with a hard modern mix smeared over soft original joints. That patch traps moisture and pops off in sheets. We grind the failed joints to proper depth and repoint with mortar matched to the original, so the repair bonds instead of flaking.
Brick's housing boom ran from the 1950s through the 1980s, which means neighborhoods like Lake Riviera, Laurelton, and Baywood are full of chimneys reaching the age where the original crown, cap, and mortar all give out in the same decade.
Getting hold of us from Brick
Call us at (732) 568-2572 during working hours and you will get one of us, not a dispatcher. We schedule assessments in Brick on the same runs as the rest of the service area, so the wait is usually days rather than weeks.
Nearby
Toms River, Lakewood, Jackson, Manchester, Whiting, Beachwood, Bayville, Point Pleasant, Barnegat, Forked River, Island Heights.