Water Leaking from the Ceiling: What Steps to Take
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The chimney cap and crown are your chimney's first line of defense against water, and on Crompond's mid-century housing stock, both are frequently original or first-replacement and showing their age. A missing or damaged cap allows rain, snow, and animals directly into the flue. A cracked crown, the concrete or mortar slab at the top of the chimney structure, lets water seep down into the masonry, accelerating the same freeze-thaw damage that leads to repointing needs.
Meridian Contracting installs and repairs chimney caps and crowns throughout Crompond and the Town of Yorktown, protecting the rest of your chimney investment from water damage that often goes unnoticed until it has already caused expensive interior problems.
New caps sized to your specific flue, and repair or replacement of caps that have rusted, cracked, or failed.
Repair of cracked crowns and full rebuilds where deterioration has gone too far for a simple patch.
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Rain, snow, and animals looking for a place to nest, while still allowing smoke and gases to vent properly.
Cracks are often visible from the ground with binoculars, but many crown issues are only found during a proper roof-level inspection.
Both are inexpensive repairs compared to the masonry damage that results from ignoring them, so earlier is always better.
Often not. Crowns from this era are now 40-60 years old and frequently show cracking from decades of freeze-thaw cycling.
Yes, cap replacement is typically a standalone repair unless we find additional mortar damage during inspection.
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