Chimney Sweep in Parkville, MD

Parkville is wall-to-wall post-war brick, rowhomes and ranchers built in the same era with the same kind of masonry flue. When one starts to fail, the ones next door usually are not far behind.

With so many chimneys built in the same period, we see a lot of the same issues across Parkville: cracked crowns, failing mortar joints and clay liners near the end of their life. Tuckpointing and relining are our bread and butter up here.

If your chimney has never been repointed or you have spotted crumbling mortar, get it looked at before another winter. Free inspection, photo report and a firm quote.

Parkville was built fast and built the same, block after block off Harford Road, and that uniformity is useful to know. When we find a failing liner on one street we are rarely surprised to find the same thing three doors down, because those houses left the ground in the same season with the same flue. If a neighbour has just had work done, it is worth having yours looked at.

Uniform post-war brick ranchers with side chimneys on a Parkville street
Uniform post-war brick ranchers with side chimneys on a Parkville street

What we usually find on Parkville chimneys

  • Whole streets built the same year with the same flue, so the problems arrive in waves
  • Original clay liners now past seventy and letting go at the joints
  • Short rancher stacks that struggle to draft in mild weather
  • Furnace flues abandoned after a high-efficiency swap, left open and pulling damp
A mason repointing the corbelled crown of a brick chimney on a Baltimore rowhome roof
A mason repointing the corbelled crown of a brick chimney on a Baltimore rowhome roof

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Get it swept before the first freeze

Damp falls and freeze-thaw winters are hard on old Baltimore brick. A free inspection now beats a crown rebuild in January.

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