Chimney Services in Narrabundah

Simple Brick Chimneys and Retrofitted Heaters

Because so much of Narrabundah went up as government-built housing to a small number of repeated designs, its chimneys are unusually consistent. Single flue, solid brick, standard dimensions, sitting in roughly the same position on roughly the same roof form street after street. That is genuinely useful to a sweep: we tend to know what the flue will look like before the camera goes up, and we know which details on that particular design tend to give trouble.

The complication is what the last twenty years of renovation has done to them. Extensions here regularly build out past the original roofline, which changes how wind moves across the termination and can leave a flue that drew perfectly well now sitting in a pressure shadow and pushing smoke back into the room. Others have had the chimney partly demolished and rebuilt as part of a second storey, or had a wood heater dropped into the opening with a steel liner run up inside the old brick. None of that gets recorded anywhere.

So the question we are really answering in Narrabundah is what has been done to a standard chimney since it was built. We camera the full flue, look at the termination in relation to the roof around it, and assess the liner and the masonry as separate items, since they fail independently. You get footage, roof-level photographs and a straight explanation of which of those applies to your house.

Serving Narrabundah & Nearby

FreshDuct sweeps, inspects and repairs chimneys throughout Narrabundah 7 days a week, across the post-war streets and the renovated houses among them.

Griffith, Kingston, Manuka and Deakin sit on the same inner-south run, so a Narrabundah chimney booking can usually be grouped with nearby work.