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Salt off the bay and a hard-working heater are a tough pairing for a Frankston chimney. FreshDuct repairs rusted flashing, cracked crowns and heat-damaged mortar on post-war brick stacks, relines flues that have had a heater fitted, and photographs it all.
Rust streaks running down the brick or the iron below the chimney? The flashing has gone, and it is a repair, not a repaint.
Many Frankston chimneys are post-war brick, built to serve an open fire and later asked to carry a wood heater instead. That change matters. A heater pushes hotter gases through a flue built for a lazy open fire, and where no liner was fitted the mortar joints inside the brick dry out, crack and drop, until the camera shows gaps between the bricks. On the outside, the bay is doing its own work on the stack.
That outside work is mostly salt. Galvanised flashing on the iron and tile roofs near the water rusts through at the folds and leaves a tell-tale orange streak down the brick or the roof sheet below; cement crowns crack and let rain into the top of the stack; and mortar on the face that takes the sea wind erodes back from the brick. Each of these shows up inside as damp, rust stains or a smell of wet soot after weather.
We inspect the lot before quoting: the stack and crown from the roof, the flashing at the fold, and the inside of the flue on camera. Repairs are matched to the fault. Rusted flashing is replaced with a corrosion-resistant material and dressed properly to the roof; crowns are rebuilt to shed water; eroded joints are repointed; and a flue that has been cooked by a heater gets a stainless liner sized to that appliance.
Flashing, crown, repointing and stainless relining for Frankston's post-war chimneys, whether the damage is from the bay or the heater.
Galvanised flashing near the bay goes at the folds and fixings first. We replace it with a corrosion-resistant material and dress it to the iron or tile properly, so the streak down the brick does not come back.
A wood heater set into an old open fireplace runs the brick above it hotter than it was built for. If the camera shows cracked or missing mortar in the flue, a stainless liner sized to the heater is the fix, and we quote it firm.
Rain gets into a Frankston stack through a cracked crown or the eroded joints on the sea-facing side, then shows inside as damp. We rebuild the crown with a fall and repoint the weathered face rather than rendering over it.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
A Frankston chimney can be failing from the outside in, from salt and rain, or from the inside out, from a heater running too hot for the flue. The inspection sorts out which, with photos of each fault.
The quote covers only what has failed. If the flue is sound and it is just the flashing, that is what we fix, and you get photos of the finished repair from the roof.
Documented end to end — every job, every suburb.
Camera and photo inspection of the stack, crown, flashing and flue.
We find the real cause — water, movement or heat — and explain it.
A firm price for only what is needed, before any work.
Masonry, crown, flashing or flue work done properly and safely.
Draw and weather-tightness confirmed.
Before and after photos and honest advice on what to watch.
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Rust washing off failed galvanised flashing, which salt air near the bay corrodes at the folds and fixings. Water is likely getting in behind it. We inspect from the roof, replace the flashing with a corrosion-resistant material and dress it properly to the roof.
Yes, on camera. A heater in an unlined brick flue runs it hotter than an open fire did, and the mortar inside often cracks and drops out. If the camera shows that, a stainless liner sized to the heater is the repair, quoted firm after the inspection.
White staining, crumbling mortar, loose or missing bricks, rust marks on the roof, water in the firebox after rain, or smoke seeping into rooms are the usual signs. A photographed inspection tells you what is cosmetic and what is not.
Yes — stainless steel liners for cracked or unlined flues on open fireplaces and wood heaters, quoted firm after a camera inspection. Gas flue work goes through the licensed gas specialists we arrange.
Often, with roof access and harness work. Taller or unstable stacks need scaffold, and we tell you before quoting rather than after.
Send your details and the office confirms a window for Frankston. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
