Scarsdale's stacks were built when masons signed their work — multi-flue crowns, clay pots, lime mortar, slate all around. Between nor'easters and ninety winters, they've earned careful hands. Ours come with a written estimate that never costs a cent.
*The slate predates us. The standard doesn't.
The fireplace inside, the stack above the slate, and the stone around the property — one crew answers for all of it.
Fireplace flues gather creosote; the old oil flues gather something meaner. Both get brushed to clean tile with the vacuum sealing every gram indoors.
Westchester real estate moves fast and inspectors ask hard questions. A camera survey and a photographed report answer them before they cost you a deal.
Lime-era mortar and hard modern cement don't mix — one cracks the other. We repoint with compatible blends and source brick that belongs on a 1920s wall.
Ninety winters split crowns and loosen the pots that give these rooflines their character. We rebuild the top, re-bed the pots, and keep the silhouette original.
An open flue collects rain, leaves and raccoons in equal measure. Stainless and copper caps close pre-war stacks properly — one flue or five under a single cover.
Sideways rain finds what vertical rain never tests. We trace the entry path through crown, joints or flashing and rebuild that seam — slate left undisturbed.
Half of Westchester converted from oil without touching the flue — and old oil soot keeps corroding unlined masonry for decades. Stainless liners end that quietly.
Fieldstone and bluestone built this county. Walkways, steps, garden walls and outdoor fireplaces get laid by the same hands that keep your chimney honest.
Old chimneys are stoic. By the time they complain out loud, the repair has grown. Read the early signs instead.
Masonry season in the Northeast runs roughly April to November — mortar wants warmth to cure. The free estimate runs all year, and the repairs it lists shouldn't wait for the last mild week.
The same four moves for a sweep or a full restoration.
A leaning pot, a stain, a smell — describe it to someone who's heard every version and can triage by phone.
Stack, flues, firebox, flashing and stonework examined — camera down the flue wherever it earns its place.
Itemized, written, free — with the urgent flagged and the cosmetic labeled honestly as cosmetic.
Compatible mortar, period brick, protected slate, spotless cleanup. The repair should look inevitable.
Sweeps, estimates and repairs all book from one number — and autumn's calendar fills from the front. Weekdays, seven to seven.
(914) 484-2473Stacks, pots, patios and the weather that keeps us busy.
The Hutch and the Bronx River Parkway keep central Westchester twenty minutes wide.
A town over from the list? Ring (914) 484-2473 — the vans know the parkways.
Entirely. A technician looks the chimney, fireplace or stonework over on site and leaves itemized pricing in writing — no visit charge, nothing owed, no follow-up pressure. It's how a hundred-year-old trade has always earned its work in this county.
It deserves it. The pre-war stacks here were laid with lime-rich mortar, tall multi-flue crowns and clay pots that hard modern cement actively damages. We repoint with compatible blends, source period brick, and reset the pots so the roofline keeps its original silhouette.
Because decades of oil firing leave a corrosive soot that keeps eating unlined masonry long after a gas conversion — and many Westchester conversions skipped the relining step entirely. A camera check settles in minutes whether your old oil flue needs a stainless liner.
Wood-burning fireplaces in regular winter rotation: once a season. Flues serving the heating equipment: an annual check, since blockages and liner damage build without symptoms. Pre-war stacks often carry both kinds — one visit sorts every flue in the stack.
Yes — that leak has an address, usually a cracked crown, an opened joint or tired flashing that only sideways rain ever tests. We trace the actual path, rebuild that seam with the slate protected, and the plaster stain finally stops growing.
Usually not. Pots lean when the crown bedding beneath them fails; we lift the pot, rebuild the bedding and reset it plumb. When one is truly beyond saving, we match a replacement from salvage stock so nothing about the roofline changes.
Happily. Fieldstone and bluestone are the county's native materials, and outdoor fireplaces, walkways, steps and walls come from the same masons who restore the chimney — laid to the standard the neighborhood expects.
Monday through Friday, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Saturdays and Sundays the shop rests.
The person who answers has pointed more pre-war brick than anyone you know.
Tudor, colonial or center-hall — chances are we've worked its twin two streets over and can price yours from the description.
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