Chimney chase cover replacement in Nassauville by local pros
Chase tops for Nassauville homes with one pipe or several, laid out on a free visit from each pipe's measured center.
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Why Nassauville trusts local pros with chase tops
- Locally owned in Jacksonville
- Family owned and operated
- 100% satisfaction guaranteed
- Free inspection and estimate
- Same-day service available
- 10% off any service
While the old cover is off in Nassauville, we check the air space around the pipe inside the chase, since that view only lasts a day.
- Free inspection and estimateWe measure your Nassauville chase and look under the old top at no charge before anything is quoted.
- Upfront pricing, no hidden feesMetal, gauge and any framing repair each get their own priced line, and that total is what you pay.
- Workmanship warrantyThe new top, its collars and its fasteners are covered by our workmanship warranty, written on the estimate.
A storm collar that has let go
The storm collar is the metal band clamped around the chimney pipe just above the chase top collar. It overlaps the collar like a small umbrella and keeps rain from running down the pipe into the opening.
When its clamp loosens it slides down, and when its seal to the pipe dries out, water gets behind it. Either failure can soak your Nassauville chase even under a sound cover. We check the storm collar on every chase call, refit or replace it, and seal it to the pipe only where the fireplace manual says to seal. The measuring visit in Nassauville costs nothing, so call (904) 920-5495 before the next rain.
Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church is in Nassauville. Nassauville sits in Nassau County.
Your new chase top in Nassauville, part by part
- New top pitched or cross-broken so rain runs to the edges
- Small gap at each pipe left open, as the manuals require
- Metal grade and gauge written on your Nassauville estimate
- Two-pipe chases laid out from each measured pipe center
From tape measure to hose test in Nassauville
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Measure over the siding
We measure all four sides at the top of your Nassauville chase, over the siding and trim, and check the diagonals so the skirt fits snug.
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Read the fireplace drawing
The maker's manual for your model sets the collar height, the open gap at the pipe and the minimum slope, and the new top is drawn to it.
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Shape, collar and fasten
The top is cross-broken or pitched away from each pipe, collared at every hole and screwed through the skirt into the framing. The storm collar goes back on and is sealed where the manual says.
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Hose test and walk-through
Where the roof gives safe footing, we run water over the finished top and watch it leave every edge, then show you what changed.
Picking chase top metal close to the coast in Nassauville
Being near the water without touching it puts Nassauville in a middle band. Galvanized sheet still loses its zinc sooner than it would far inland, and a top that holds water speeds that up.
We leave galvanized off Nassauville chase tops and quote stainless, with the grade and gauge named in writing so the offer can be compared with any other.
10% off any service booked within 72 hours of inspection
Stainless cover, storm collar and sealant, the whole chase top job is discounted.
Skirt depth and the drip that clears the wall
The skirt is the part of the cover that turns down over the sides of the chase. It needs enough depth to cover the joint between the top of the siding and the framing, and enough to take fasteners below that joint.
At its bottom edge it ends in a drip: a small outward kick that throws water clear of the wall instead of letting it run back underneath. Fireplace manuals call for a turndown and drip edge on the chase top for exactly that reason. A skirt that stops short, or ends flush against the siding, leaves the top of the wall to take the water.
The gap that stays open around the pipe
Between the chimney pipe and the collar there is supposed to be a small gap. One manual specifies 1/8 inch, and it carries a fire-risk warning against filling it. The pipe of a factory-built chimney heats and cools, grows and shrinks, and relies on its air spaces to stay within its listed temperatures. Filling the gap ties the pipe to the sheet metal and can hold heat and water where neither belongs.
So the gap is left open, and the storm collar above it is what keeps rain out. If we find the gap filled on an old top, we clear it and note it.
Folded, welded and sealed seams
One-piece chase tops have seams only at their corners, where the skirt folds down. A very large chase, or one with an unusual shape, may need two sheets joined across the top.
Every seam is a possible leak, and fireplace manuals call for caulking all seams on the chase top. Corner seams are folded so water runs over them rather than into them. Joints across the top are folded and locked or welded, then sealed, and placed where water runs across them rather than along them. Fewer seams in the flat means fewer places to fail, which is why we cut one sheet where the chase size allows.
Checks behind a chase cover price
- Outside size of the chase, taken over the siding or stucco finish
- Fireplace maker and model read from the unit's rating plate
- Listed termination cap reused, or replaced with the maker's part
- Pipe spacing and layout where more than one vent passes through
Chase cover questions from Nassauville
Will you replace the cap on the pipe too?
Only if it is damaged, and then with the part the fireplace maker lists for that model. A sound listed cap is reinstalled over the new cover.
Can you replace the cover while I am at work?
Not for the roof work, if we can reach the roof safely. Someone needs to be home if we have to read the fireplace model plate or look for water inside.
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