Family-run chimney tuckpointing in O'Neil
Every face of your O'Neil chimney mapped for free, then a written price for each side.
- Fully licensed and insured
- Locally owned
- Family owned and operated
- Same-day service
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Local repointing pros for O'Neil chimneys
- Locally owned in Jacksonville
- Family owned and operated
- 100% satisfaction guaranteed
- Free inspection and estimate
- Same-day service available
- 10% off any service
Head joints are cut by hand, so the brick edges stay sharp.
- Free inspection and estimateEvery face of your O'Neil chimney is scratch-tested and sketched at no charge.
- 100% satisfaction guaranteedIf the new joints are not sound, full and matched as agreed, we come back and fix them.
- Family owned and operatedA family masonry crew does the survey and the work, so the person who priced a face is the one who repoints it.
Sand in the gutters below the chimney
Gritty sand collecting in the gutter or on the shingles below a chimney is often mortar leaving the joints above. Rain washes the loosened grains out of the face and down the roof.
The sand tells you the joints are wearing, not how far. We check each face to find which joints are sandy on the surface and which have lost their mortar deep into the wall. That decides how much repointing the chimney needs. Mortar sand showing up around your chimney in O'Neil? Phone (904) 920-5495 for a free joint inspection.
The county for O'Neil is Nassau County. The coast is close to O'Neil.
Raked, filled, tooled and cured
- Head joints cut by hand to protect brick edges
- Old caulk and skim patches cut out
- Fresh work shaded, misted and covered from rain
- Joints on your O'Neil chimney priced face by face
Survey, rake, fill, tool
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Every face surveyed
Joints are scratch-tested at several heights and the failed courses marked on a sketch.
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Joints raked and cleaned
Old mortar comes out to sound depth, head joints by hand, then joints are cleaned and dampened.
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Filled in layers and tooled
Matched mortar goes in stage by stage, then is tooled to the original profile.
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Cured and cleaned up
Fresh joints are protected while they cure, the faces brushed and the roof cleared.
Salt deposits near the ocean
A few miles inshore, salt can still reach the masonry on the wind. White deposits on the joints point to water moving through the wall.
In O'Neil we follow the deposits to where the water gets in before repointing.
10% off any service booked within 72 hours of inspection
Repointing earns the discount whether or not you have used our masons before.
Where a grinder helps and where it harms
On long bed joints between courses, a grinder can open the joint quickly, provided the joint is wide enough for the blade and the mason is steady. The danger is the brick edges, which a wandering blade chips or widens.
We use a grinder only where the joint width allows it, keep the cut inside the old mortar and finish by hand to square the joint. On older, softer brick, or where joints are thin, the whole job is done by hand. The method for each face is written on the estimate so there is no surprise about what tools come up the ladder.
Roof protection and cleanup
Repointing puts dust, mortar crumbs and old joint material on the roof around the chimney. Left there, it clogs gutters and stains shingles. So the roof is covered around the work area before raking starts.
Debris is caught and bagged, gutters near the chimney are cleared, and the ground below is checked at the end of each day. Any flowers or plants under the chimney are protected. It is a small part of the price, and it is the part neighbors notice first. At handover, the roof around the chimney should look the way it did before we arrived, less the old mortar.
Full joints against wind-driven rain
On chimneys close to the ocean, storm wind drives rain hard against the masonry, and any gap along a joint edge becomes a way in. Brick Industry Association guidance on water penetration stresses full mortar joints and tooled profiles for exactly that kind of exposure.
So near the coast we pay particular attention to filling joints completely, with no voids behind the face, and to tooling them tight against the brick. We also check the faces that take the most direct weather, since wind-driven rain wears their joints soonest. Joints on those faces are raked and refilled with extra care at the brick edges, where rain finds its way in first.
Joint findings written down before pricing
- Faces and courses needing repointing, marked on a sketch of the chimney
- Head joints cut by hand, and where a grinder is used
- Color matched from a cured test batch shown to you first
- Joint profile to match, tooled once the mortar has firmed
Repointing questions from O'Neil
Could the cracks simply be caulked?
Caulk or a thin skim over worn mortar has nothing solid to grip and falls away, often hiding deeper failure while it lasts. Raking and refilling the joint is the repair that holds.
What does the repointing survey in O'Neil cost?
The survey and estimate are free. Book the repointing within 72 hours of the survey and 10% comes off.
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Repoint a worn chimney in O'Neil
From a few top courses to the whole stack, repointing in O'Neil is priced face by face before work begins.
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