• Exterior Sealant **NEW**
• New Chimney Liner
• Exterior Chimney Repair

Tarped to minimize water seepage to basement.

The scaffold goes up and the flakes come off.

Just about there.

The part under the deck roof - before.

.... now patched.

.... moving right along.

.... capstone in place.

All done --- in only 2-1/2 days!

(Note: there will be no visible capstone on the top of the chimney.
The company doing the liner will apply a special material to the top that will seal the crown.)

The only brick waste is in this 5-gallon bucket and it is going to be used on the assistant's landscaping.

Highly recommended!

Thanks, George!

Thanks, Brandon!

They put fiberglass insulation at strategic points to hold the liner in the center so they can pour the mortar-like insulation around it... at the top and at the bottom (see picture at right).

It ended up that we complicating things a bit because we had the architectural stone applied before the liner.
They thought about cutting into the exterior to do what they needed to to keep the mortar-like insulation from going into the hearth area. But instead, they were able to do what they needed from inside the hearth area itself.

A Grate Chimney Sweep came back a couple weeks later to apply the sealant to the cap of the chimney. Now we are all set!

When you are deciding which sealant to use, I highly recommend you contact the people who installed your architectural stone and find out what they prefer to use.

I did a bunch of research and it was rather confusing. During my search on the internet for clues about what to use, I found conflicting information.

I contacted Centurion (manufacturer of our architectural stone) and spoke to a very nice man who was more than happy to weed through my information and point out what was accurate and why.

Then I called George to find out which brand he prefers. (I was planning to then go buy it and have the hubby do the spraying.) I discovered, gratefully, that he would charge me about the same amount I expected to pay to buy the product to spray the chimney!

Let's see, spend the money and wait for my husband to get around to it... OR spend the money and have it done right away. Well, that was a no-brainer. (I hired George and Brandon.)

Brandon got the job of spraying. Here is George pumping up the sprayer. I liked the fact that they used the pump sprayer as opposed to something that would use fossil fuels.

This stuff is VERY slippery, so make sure you (or your hired crew) cover surfaces that you will walk on. It will also damage foliage, so you'll want to cover anything you don't want this stuff on.

Very basically, the sealant keeps the larger molecules of water out while letting the tiny molecules of air through.

Brandon started from the top and worked his way down knowing that the sealant would drip down the stone some.

At this point he had already done the far side of the chimney. And let me tell you, that TPO roof is slippery enough... this sealant made it practically deadly. No mishaps though, thankfully.

Here we see the guys retrieving the leftover sealant to use on another job.

Gotta love that they can use the rest on another job.

Another super job, Brandon and George! Thanks