Our team completed a full chimney rebuild on a home in Carrollton. The brickwork had failed past the point where repointing or patching would hold, so the chimney was taken down to sound masonry and built back with new brick.
When a Chimney Needs a Full Rebuild
Brick chimneys usually fail from the top down. Water gets in through a cracked crown, open mortar joints or gaps at the roofline, and over the years it washes out the mortar, breaks the faces off the brick, and loosens the courses until the chimney starts to shift.
While the damage stays in the joints, repointing fixes it. Once the brick itself is breaking apart and the courses are loose, new mortar only covers the problem, and the safe fix is to take the damaged section down and rebuild it. In North Texas, hail and the swing between wet and dry weather speed that process up.
How the Chimney Was Rebuilt
The damaged brick was removed course by course down to solid masonry. The chimney was then rebuilt with new brick laid in fresh mortar, with the joints tooled to shed water, and finished at the top with a new crown sloped away from the flue so rain runs off instead of soaking into the new brickwork.
