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The stacks on Fitzroy’s Victorian terraces stand high on the parapet, shared with the neighbours and exposed on every side. FreshDuct repoints and tuckpoints heritage brickwork, rebuilds crowns and flashing and relines narrow flues, with a photographed inspection first.
Cracks high on a Fitzroy parapet stack? We photograph the whole stack, both sides, before quoting a single brick.
A Fitzroy chimney does not rise out of a roof so much as out of a wall. The stacks sit on the parapet between terraces, sometimes carrying the flues of both houses, and they were built tall to clear the neighbours and draw properly. That exposure is what wears them out: the mortar in the top courses washes back, bricks on the weather face begin to spall, and the render or tuckpointing that finished them originally falls away in patches.
Lower down, the trouble is water finding its way through where the stack meets the parapet capping and the roof behind it. Flashing on a terrace is often layered over decades of earlier repairs, and a leak into the wall shared with the neighbour can show up in either house. A camera inspection of the flue and a photographed look at the stack from the roof tell us where the water is coming from, and the quote is for that alone.
Because Fitzroy is heavily heritage-listed, the repair has to look like the original from the street. We repoint in a mortar matched to the Victorian brick, cut out and replace spalled bricks with ones of the same colour and size, and tuckpoint where the original finish was tuckpointed rather than leaving a grey cement scar. Narrow, kinked flues that have cracked are relined with a flexible stainless liner after the camera has been through them.
Heritage repointing, tuckpointing, brick replacement, crown and flashing repairs and stainless relining for shared terrace stacks, quoted firm after inspection.
Many Fitzroy stacks were tuckpointed originally, with a fine ribbon of lime putty over a coloured mortar joint. We match the joint and the ribbon so a repaired section reads as original from the footpath, which matters in a suburb where most streets carry a heritage overlay.
The wind hits the top of a tall parapet stack hardest, so the top few courses loosen long before the rest. We rebuild those courses on the original line and rebuild the crown to throw water clear, rather than taking the stack down further than the damage goes.
A narrow terrace flue that steps sideways behind the upstairs rooms cannot take a rigid liner. We feed a flexible stainless liner down from the pot, following the bends, and connect it at the hearth so the fireplace can be used again without smoke finding the cracks.
Real photos from Melbourne jobs — not stock, not staged.
A shared stack means whatever we do affects the neighbour too. We photograph the whole stack from both sides before quoting, work only on what has failed, and leave the flue serving the other house exactly as we found it.
Every repair comes with before and after photos from the roof, and a straight answer on what is cosmetic and what is letting water in. Heritage brickwork gets matched, not painted over, so the stack still belongs to the terrace.
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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Sometimes. Cracked render or tuckpointing high on a parapet stack often means the mortar behind it has washed out and the top courses have started to move. A photographed inspection from the roof shows whether it is surface finish or loose brickwork, and the repair is quoted for that.
Yes. Party-wall flues in Fitzroy usually dog-leg, so we use a flexible stainless liner fed down from the pot and worked round each bend, then connected at the hearth. The camera inspection beforehand confirms the bore is wide enough for the liner.
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 Fitzroy. No call-out fee, before and after photos, and honest advice on what your chimney needs and what it does not.
