Abba's House LLC repairs, maintains, and restores residential chimneys in New York. The work is masonry: crowns, mortar joints, brick, flashing, and caps, handled by the same crew that does walls and steps.
A chimney is the most exposed masonry on a house. It stands above the roofline, takes weather on all four sides, and has no wall protecting it. That is why it usually fails before any other brick on the property.
Abba's House LLC also handles roofing, which matters at the flashing. The joint where a chimney passes through the roof leaks more often than the chimney itself, and fixing one without the other rarely holds up for very long here.
Three chimney service lines under one licensed masonry crew, all focused on brick, mortar, crown, and flashing work.
Chimney repair in New York covers cracked crowns, spalling brick, failed mortar joints, damaged flashing where the chimney meets the roof, and separation from the wall it sits against. A chimney takes weather on all four sides, unlike a wall.
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Chimney maintenance in New York means checking the crown, the mortar joints, the flashing, and the cap before winter, then sealing small openings while they are still small. Freeze and thaw cycles turn a hairline crack into a full rebuild.
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Chimney restoration in New York applies when repair is past the point of patching: rebuilding the crown, relaying courses of brick, and resetting the cap on an older chimney. New brick and mortar get matched to the original chimney stack.
Get an estimateFour steps from the first crown inspection to the final walkthrough with the homeowner.
The crown, the joints, the cap, and the flashing all get looked at before any scope is written.
Repointing, crown work, cap replacement, and any rebuilding are listed in writing before the homeowner approves the job.
Failed joints are cut out and repointed, and a cracked crown gets rebuilt rather than simply sealed over.
The roof joint gets sealed, then the finished chimney is reviewed with the homeowner from the ground below.
Chimney work is brick and mortar, so the same masons who repoint walls and rebuild steps handle the chimney too.
The roof to chimney joint gets addressed at the same time, since that is where most chimney leaks actually start.
Sealing a hairline crack costs a fraction of rebuilding a crown after three New York winters have worked on it.
A selection of chimney repair and restoration projects completed by our masonry crew. Click the featured image to enlarge.
Look for crumbling mortar, white staining on the brick, pieces of the crown down on the roof, or a stain on the ceiling near the chimney.
Usually the flashing where it passes through the roof, not the brick itself. Sometimes it's a cracked crown letting water down into the stack from above.
Often, yes. Restoration rebuilds the crown, relays damaged courses, and resets the cap. We match new brick and mortar to the original so it doesn't stand out.
Yes. Roofing is a separate service line here, so the chimney and the roof joint get addressed together on the same visit, instead of by two different contractors.
Yes. We'll look at the crown, the joints, and the flashing, then send a written estimate covering labor and materials. There's no cost and no obligation.
Chimney repair, maintenance, and restoration are available in these New York towns and counties. Ask about any town nearby that is not listed.
Rensselaer County, Scotia
Hudson, Catskill, Oneonta, Woodstock, Saugerties, Lake Katrine, Red Hook, Tivoli, Rhinebeck, Millbrook, Pine Plains, Millerton
Arlington, Port Ewen, Highland, Marlboro, Milan, LaGrangeville, Wappingers Falls, Hopewell Junction, Fishkill, Cold Spring
Cornwall, Warwick, Goshen, Port Jervis, Peekskill, Nyack
