Chimney Repair in Point Pleasant, NJ
Ocean County Chimney Repair is a chimney repair company working in Point Pleasant, 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.
Point Pleasant sits on the Barnegat Peninsula at the Manasquan Inlet, cut in half by the canal completed in 1925 that became the northernmost leg of the Intracoastal Waterway. Still regarded as a summer resort even though about 19,000 people live here year round, the borough puts every chimney within blowing distance of salt water. Salt is the single biggest factor in how long a cap, a set of flashing, or a brick face lasts here.
Salt air and canal town chimneys in Point Pleasant
On a barrier peninsula with the ocean on one side, the bay on the other, and the canal through the middle, no chimney in Point Pleasant escapes marine air. Salt accelerates corrosion on every metal component: caps, chase covers, flashing, damper assemblies. A galvanized cap that lasts twenty years inland can fail in well under half that here. We spec stainless steel for every metal replacement in this borough, because anything less is a repeat appointment.
Point Pleasant also carries a real split between year round homes and seasonal ones. The borough grew fastest in the 1960s, so much of the housing stock is sixty year old construction, and a share of it sits unheated from fall to spring. A flue in a cold, closed house stays damp for months, quietly rusting its damper and softening its mortar. We do a lot of spring open-up inspections here for exactly that reason.
Repairs we do in Point Pleasant
The damage salt and storms leave in Point Pleasant
Salt eaten caps within sight of the inlet
Chimney caps near the Manasquan Inlet and the beachfront corrode from the fastener holes outward until they lift off in a storm. We remove what is left, inspect the flue for the water that got in, and install marine grade stainless caps that are built for exactly this exposure.
Flashing corrosion on peninsula rooflines
Step flashing and counterflashing around a chimney is where salt air does its quietest work. Pinholes in corroded flashing leak long before anything looks wrong from the ground. If a ceiling stain shows up near the chimney after wind driven rain, the flashing is the first thing we open up.
Seasonal flues sitting cold and damp for months
A summer house closed from October to May holds a column of damp air in its flue all winter. Dampers rust shut, mortar softens, and odors set in. A top sealing damper and a proper cap keep a seasonal flue dry, and an opening inspection catches what the winter did.
Point Pleasant sits on the Barnegat Peninsula at the Manasquan Inlet, split in half by the 1925 canal and still regarded as a summer resort, which means salt on every cap and plenty of flues that sit cold and damp for months at a time.
Getting hold of us from Point Pleasant
Call us at (732) 568-2572 during working hours and you will get one of us, not a dispatcher. We schedule assessments in Point Pleasant on the same runs as the rest of the service area, so the wait is usually days rather than weeks.
Nearby
Toms River, Brick, Lakewood, Jackson, Manchester, Whiting, Beachwood, Bayville, Barnegat, Forked River, Island Heights.