Chimney Inspection in Sacramento, CA

Chimney Inspection for Sacramento Homeowners

Sacramento proper covers a wider range of chimney construction than anywhere else we work, and the age of the building tells us most of what we need to know before we arrive. Midtown and the Alkali Flat area carry genuinely historic Victorian and Craftsman housing with unreinforced brick chimneys, many of them well over a century old and never seismically retrofitted. Land Park and East Sacramento add 1920s and 1930s Tudor and Colonial homes whose narrow original flues were often sized for coal rather than wood. South Land Park and Greenhaven bring post-war ranch construction, and the Pocket adds 1970s builds. Each generation fails differently. The oldest brick stacks are the ones we worry about most: tall, slender, unbraced above the roofline, and holding up nothing but themselves. In those homes a Level 2 video scan usually tells a very different story from what is visible in the firebox.

Construction spans the 1880s to the 1970s in a few square miles. Unreinforced brick stacks on Victorian and Craftsman homes in Midtown and Alkali Flat are the highest seismic and structural concern. 1920s Tudors in Land Park and East Sacramento often have undersized original flues. Historic-district properties need matched lime mortar rather than modern Portland mixes, which are too hard for soft old brick.

We work throughout Sacramento — Midtown, East Sacramento, Land Park, Curtis Park, Tahoe Park, The Pocket, Greenhaven and Oak Park included and across the wider area around Capitol Park, Old Sacramento and William Land Park. Covering ZIPs 95814, 95816, 95818, 95819, 95820, 95822, 95825, 95831 and 95864.

Booking chimney inspection in Sacramento works the same as anywhere else we cover, and the background — what the work involves, what it costs to put off — is set out on our chimney inspection page.