Chimney Repair in Maple Grove, MN
Chimney repair in Maple Grove spans a city that is mostly young, from the vast majority of houses built since the mid-1980s to two older pockets near Osseo and along Bass Lake Road.
10 Years
Workmanship warranty, in writing
Maple Grove at a Glance for Chimney Repair
The City of Maple Grove's 2040 Comprehensive Plan says about 77 percent of its housing was built after 1985. Up to the mid-1980s, the plan says, homes here were geared toward first-time buyers, and from then on came "housing that might be described as move-up housing." A bigger house can accommodate a taller, wider chimney, and height and width are two factors that affect our price. Sam measures the stack and counts the stories it climbs while he is there, so the figure in your written estimate fits the chimney on your roof.
The same plan puts the share built before 1970 at about 4.8 percent. In the Hennepin County parcel record, the largest groups of those older houses are in two places: about 250 in the Bayless Park, Maple Acres, and Charest additions by Osseo, and about 150 in the Donahue additions along Bass Lake Road, built mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. A stack there has had decades longer than its neighbors across town to take on water, and Sam's whole-stack check covers the faces and joints down its body.
What Our Chimney Repair Covers
- Replacing brick whose face has popped or cracked, unit by unit, each new one bedded in fresh mortar
- Repointing: failed mortar ground out to a proper depth, then new mortar packed in and struck at the right moment
- Repairs at the top of the stack, where the concrete crown and the raincap keep water out of the brick below
- Flashing around the base where the stack meets the roof, taken on whenever a chimney calls for it
How the Job Runs, Start to Finish
1. Phone during business hours and you will speak to a person. If you can, send a picture or two of the chimney, shot from the ground.
2. Sam visits at no charge and looks over the stack from top to bottom, including the parts you did not point out.
3. If water is reaching the inside, he finds where it gets in before quoting. Water goes on the stack low down first and moves up in stages while someone watches indoors.
4. The estimate arrives in writing with the options laid out. When repairing and rebuilding are both reasonable answers, each gets its own price.
5. On the work days, staging goes up, and the yard, roof, and driveway are covered. Failed mortar and brick come out, new work goes in, the crown is poured or sealed and the cap fitted, and the crew cleans up the site before it goes.
Starting Figures for a Maple Grove Chimney
Every chimney in Maple Grove begins from the same published lines, each one set for a single-story house with reasonable roof access.
Before you call
Every figure on this page depends on square footage and on what we find when we look. They are rough guides to help you decide whether to call, not quotes. The exact number comes after the visit, and the visit is free.
Sweeping, creosote, flue liners, dampers, gas inserts, and wood stoves go to a chimney sweep or installer.
Maple Grove Chimney Questions
Our house is in one of the older Maple Grove additions. Does its age change what the repair costs?+
The price depends on how much brick and mortar has to come out, whatever year the house was built, and an older stack can simply have more of both to replace. Sam judges that up close, so the number in your written estimate is the one to go by.
Our Maple Grove house has a chimney box covered in siding. Can you repair it?+
No. A box sheathed in siding is built of wood framing, and framed chases and factory-built fireplaces fall outside the masonry work we take on.
We never light the fireplace. Is the chimney still worth looking after?+
Yes. Sam finds that a chimney usually does double duty, for the fireplace and for the furnace or water heater, so it can be at work whether or not anyone lights a fire.
How long will the crew be at our house?+
A repair takes one to three days on site for a typical chimney. A new crown has to cure before anything rests on it, and the forecast can shift the dates, because mortar needs warmth to set.
Our chimney comes down through the basement. Can you repoint the base there as well?+
Yes, where the crew can reach it with power tools. A base boxed in tight behind the furnace, with no room to work a grinder, is a stretch we leave as it is. If the basement is about to be finished, have the base done before new walls close it in. Tell us what stands around it when you call, and Sam can plan for it.
What Customers Say
What appears below is our live Google feed rather than testimonials we picked out, so it shows whatever is genuinely on it.
Booking a Visit in Maple Grove
When you get in touch, mention the addition listed on your property tax statement and the year your house was built. Both help Sam plan the visit before he arrives.
For active leaks, we work evenings and weekends, and urgent scheduling costs more, which we tell you before you agree. Exterior mortar work is scheduled for weather mild enough for it to cure.