Alhambra's bungalows and duplexes were built with brick that has now sat through a century of sun, sprinklers and shaking. We sweep, inspect, repair and rebuild them — and repoint the front steps while we're at it. The estimate costs you nothing.
Two trades under one roof — the flue and firebox inside, and the brickwork outside. All of it done by our own crews, never subcontracted out.
Occasional fires burned low and slow leave more tar in a flue than regular hot ones — which is exactly how most valley households burn. We brush it out and vacuum every particle.
Top to bottom, inside and out, documented with photographs. Level 1, 2 and 3 — including the Level 2 camera scan that escrow and buyers ask for.
Loose brick near the top, a stack that has shifted, cracks stepping through the mortar joints. We rebuild from the roofline up, matching the original brick and bond.
If you can pull mortar out of a joint with a fingernail, water is already getting behind the brick. We grind the failed joints out and repack them with a colour-matched mix.
An uncapped flue takes in rain, embers on a windy October night, and every squirrel on the block. The crown underneath the cap is the part almost nobody checks.
Cracked clay tiles or an unlined flue vent carbon monoxide into the house. And with no-burn days through the winter, a lot of neighbours simply switch to gas and stop worrying about it.
It hardly rains and then it pours, and the first storm of the season finds every flaw. A stain on the ceiling is rarely leaking where you can see it.
The same trade, just at ground level. Crumbling joints in the front steps of a bungalow, a leaning garden wall, a barbecue that has seen better summers.
None of these fix themselves, and all of them are cheaper to deal with early. Looking costs you nothing.
After a noticeable earthquake, have the chimney checked before the next fire. Damage above the roofline and inside the flue is almost never visible from the yard.
You'll know the price and the plan before anyone touches a brick.
Describe what you've noticed. We'll tell you on the phone whether it needs a visit or whether you can leave it.
A two-hour arrival window that fits your day. We look at everything and photograph what matters.
Free, itemised, ordered by what's actually urgent. Nothing starts until you've said yes to it.
Cloths down, vacuums on, every scrap hauled away. You shouldn't be able to tell we were there.
Free written estimates on chimney repair, rebuilds, tuckpointing, caps and brickwork across Alhambra and the San Gabriel Valley. No charge for the visit, no obligation afterwards.
(626) 280-4123From a winter sweep in a Monterey Park bungalow to a full stack rebuild off Raymond Avenue.
Three recent jobs, in the customers' own words.
We hired this company for a chimney repair after noticing some cracked mortar and loose bricks near the top. The crew showed up on time, explained what needed to be fixed, and gave us a clear price before starting. They worked carefully and cleaned everything up when they were finished. The chimney looks solid again, and the whole experience was easy from start to finish.
I called them to have our chimney cleaned before we started using the fireplace for the winter. Scheduling was easy, and the technician arrived right when expected. He was friendly, worked neatly, and even showed me what had built up inside the chimney. There was no mess left behind at all. Really happy with the service and will definitely use them again next year.
We needed some masonry work done on the brick steps in front of our house because several joints were crumbling. They did a great job matching the existing mortar, and the finished repair blends in much better than I expected. Everyone was polite, professional, and easy to communicate with. The steps look great now, and I'm very pleased with how the entire job turned out.
Based on South Raymond Avenue, working across the valley and into northeast Los Angeles.
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No. We come out, look at the chimney or the brickwork, explain what needs doing and hand you a written price before any work starts. No charge for the visit, no obligation to book, and nothing decided while we're standing on your porch.
Inspect annually; sweep once creosote reaches about an eighth of an inch. Because no-burn days limit wood burning through the winter, plenty of Alhambra households burn only a handful of fires a season and go two or three years between sweeps. The yearly inspection still matters — blockages, cracked flue tiles and masonry damage happen whether you burn or not.
From November through February, South Coast AQMD issues no-burn alerts on days when particulate levels are forecast to be high, and residential wood burning is restricted across the air basin on those days. Gas log sets and approved gas inserts aren't affected — which is exactly why so many valley homeowners convert. Check the current alert before lighting a wood fire.
Yes. We fit gas log sets and sealed gas inserts, run or reline the venting, and size the flue correctly for the appliance. It sidesteps no-burn restrictions, ends the creosote problem completely, and takes most of the maintenance out of owning a fireplace.
A lot of it. Front steps and porches, garden and retaining walls, planters, barbecues, pilasters and mailbox piers. Same trade, same mortar matching — some weeks we do more repointing on 1920s bungalow steps than we do on roofs.
Very possibly. Older unreinforced brick chimneys are the most fragile thing on a San Gabriel Valley house, and the damage is usually quiet — stair-step cracks through the mortar, a gap where the stack meets the wall, brick sitting out of plumb above the roofline, cracked flue tiles inside. Almost none of it shows from the ground.
Regularly. Alhambra is full of duplexes, fourplexes and income properties, and we deal with multi-flue stacks, shared chimneys, tenant-occupied units and the paperwork owners and property managers need. Scheduling around tenants is routine for us.
Yes, we do plenty of escrow work. Transactions call for a Level 2 inspection including a camera scan of the flue interior, and you get a documented report with photographs suitable for negotiation, usually within a day of the visit.
One phone call, a straight answer, and a free on-site estimate. Monday to Friday, from 6:30 in the morning.
No forms, no waiting on a callback that never comes. You'll speak to somebody who works on chimneys and brick for a living — not a call centre.
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