Chimney Repair in Lakewood, NJ
Ocean County Chimney Repair is a chimney repair company working in Lakewood, NJ, one of the towns we serve around Toms River. Sweeps, liners, leaks, crowns, flashing, repointing, and rebuilds, with the same crew on the roof from start to finish.
Lakewood became a fashionable winter resort after 1880, and its hotel business went into severe decline in the 1960s. In that same decade much of the township's woods and cranberry bogs were replaced by large housing developments, and Leisure Village, a condominium retirement development on the south side of Route 70, opened for sale in 1963. Homes from that wave are now about sixty years old.
From resort era Lakewood to the 1960s developments
A house from the 1960s has had six decades of heating seasons to crack flue tile joints, wear out a damper, or lose its cap. Whether a given home has a masonry chimney, a factory-built fireplace, or no fireplace at all varies from house to house, so the first step is simply to look at what is there and inspect it on its own terms.
Lakewood is also growing fast: the 2020 census counted 135,158 residents, the township's highest count ever and 45.6 percent more than in 2010. Newer construction often uses framed chases and metal flues, which age differently from brick, so an inspection covers the chase cover, the flue joints, and the cap along with any masonry.
Repairs we do in Lakewood
Common calls from Lakewood homes
Sixty year old flue tiles
Clay flue liners installed in the 1960s have had sixty heating seasons to crack at the joints. A cracked liner lets heat and gases reach framing they were never meant to touch. A camera inspection tells us plainly whether the tiles are sound, need sealing at the joints, or call for a stainless steel reline.
Factory-built fireboxes running past design life
Prefabricated fireplaces were economical units. Their refractory panels crack, their dampers seize, and replacement parts for old models can be hard to find. We repair what is repairable and tell you honestly when a unit has simply reached the end.
Working fireplaces needing regular sweeps
A fireplace that burns through the winter builds creosote and wears dampers and firebrick much faster than one lit a few evenings a year. An annual sweep and inspection keeps a working fireplace safe and catches small mortar and liner problems while they are still small.
Leisure Village, a condominium retirement development on the south side of Route 70, opened for sale in 1963, the same decade large housing developments replaced much of Lakewood's woods and cranberry bogs.
Getting hold of us from Lakewood
Call us at (732) 568-2572 during working hours and you will get one of us, not a dispatcher.
Nearby
Close to Lakewood: chimney repair in Brick and chimney repair in Jackson. Every service and town is on the Ocean County Chimney Repair home page, and flue cleaning has its own page: chimney sweep & cleaning in Toms River.