Chimney Repair & Masonry in Roseville, CA

Chimney Repair & Masonry for Roseville Homeowners

Roseville has grown so fast for so long that its chimney stock reads like a timeline. Old Roseville near the rail yard holds early twentieth-century housing with small original masonry fireplaces. The area around Sunrise and Douglas filled in through the 1970s and 1980s with tract housing and factory-built fireboxes. Then West Roseville — Fiddyment Farm, Westpark, Sierra Vista — added tens of thousands of homes from the late 1990s onward, virtually all with direct-vent gas appliances and no wood burning at all. The consequence is that a Roseville service call could be anything, and we ask more questions on the phone here than anywhere else. West Roseville in particular has a large population of gas fireplaces that have never been touched since the builder installed them, in homes now fifteen to twenty-five years old, which is well past the point where gaskets and burner assemblies need attention.

Three clearly separated eras: early-1900s masonry in Old Roseville, 1970s-1980s factory-built units around Sunrise and Douglas, and post-1998 direct-vent gas across Fiddyment Farm, Westpark and Sierra Vista. The West Roseville gas population is largely unserviced since original installation, with many units now fifteen to twenty-five years old.

A chimney is the only part of the house with masonry exposed on all four sides and on top. Sacramento's climate is unusually hard on it: long, very hot, bone-dry summers open hairline cracks through thermal expansion, then a concentrated wet season drives rain into every one of them. Water gets into the crown, saturates the brick, and freezes just often enough at foothill elevations to spall the faces off. Left alone, a cracked crown becomes a rebuilt chimney.