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A leak around a Greensborough wood heater is nearly always the roof penetration, not the heater. FreshDuct repairs flashings, cowls and flue sections on post-war brick-veneer homes and repoints the brick chimney where an older home still has one.
Water stain on the ceiling near the heater? Look at the flashing, not the appliance — we photograph it from the roof.
Repairs on a Greensborough block divide into two kinds of chimney. The first is the steel wood-heater flue that passes through a post-war tile roof, and its weak point is the penetration: a rubber dektite or a lead flashing sealed around the pipe, sitting under a layer of gum litter that keeps it damp. Seals perish, leads lift, and the flue itself rusts where the terminal has let water in. A stain on the ceiling near the heater is the usual first sign.
The second, less common, is a brick chimney on one of the older brick-veneer or weatherboard homes, often with a heater ducted up through it or a fireplace long unused. Decades of sun and rain on a north-east stack take the mortar out of the crown and the top courses, and the flashing where the stack meets the tiles has usually been patched more than once. These stacks lean and shed brick faces quietly until someone looks.
We inspect both from the roof with photos and, for a brick flue, a camera. Steel repairs mean a new dektite or flashing, a replaced flue section or terminal, and a sealed penetration. Masonry repairs mean repointing the crown and weathered joints, replacing spalled bricks and refitting flashing. Where an old brick flue is going back into use with a heater, a stainless liner gives it a proper seal and is quoted after the camera inspection.
Flashing, penetration and flue-section repairs for wood-heater flues, and repointing, crown and liner work for the post-war brick chimneys on Greensborough blocks.
The seal around a heater flue on a tile roof perishes under gum litter. We replace the dektite or flashing, clear the litter that was holding water against it, and photograph the sealed penetration from the roof.
A terminal that has let water in for years rusts the top sections of a twin-wall flue from inside. We replace the corroded lengths and terminal rather than patch them, so the flue is sound where it is hottest.
Where an older Greensborough home still has a brick chimney, the crown mortar is usually the first thing to go. We rebuild the crown to shed water, repoint the top courses and replace bricks that have lost their face.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
Water near a Greensborough heater has three candidates: the penetration seal, the terminal, or the flue itself. We photograph all three from the roof and quote only the one that has failed, so a perished dektite is not sold as a new flue.
For a brick stack the camera goes up the flue as well, because a crown that is crumbling outside usually has joints going inside. You see both sets of photos before deciding.
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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More often it is the seal where the flue passes through the tiles, perished under years of leaf litter, or a terminal that has let rain down the outside of the pipe. We photograph the penetration from the roof, replace the dektite or flashing, and only replace flue sections if they are actually rusted.
Usually, with a stainless liner run up the brick flue so the heater has a sealed, correctly sized flue rather than a leaky old masonry one. The camera inspection tells us whether the brick flue is straight and sound enough to take it, and the quote covers the liner and the connection.
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 Greensborough. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
