We are here to serve you for all your chimney needs in Flint

Let us help you repair and restore your brick home in Flint's masonry beauty. Flint Brick and Chimney is Flints leading chimney cleaning, chimney repair, and historic brick restoration company. We have restored the brick on the Royal Oak hotel and several historic brick homes in the Boston Edison Historic District Detroit, Pontiac, downtown Milford, Redford, and Royal Oak. Our masonry restoration specialist have worked hard for a reputation for quality chimney repair and custom chimney construction. Flint Brick and Chimney looks forward to showing the residents of Genesee County, Mi that it is well deserved. We hope all our customers are satisfied and willing to use us again, or recommend us to a friend. We pride ourselves on building corners not cutting them.

Flint Chimney Repair 248-282-4523

Our chimney cleaning masonry contractors offer estimates to Flint residents for any of the following services: chimney cleaning, chimney rebuilds, chimney repair, masonry construction, chimney crown repairs, chimney cap replacement, tuck-pointing, natural stone, grout replacement, limestone replacement, cultured stone, brick porch repair, Brick porch construction, masonry wall construction, brick wall repair, brick replacement, tuck-pointing, pointing and re-pointing work, and historic restoration. We look forward to the opportunity to help you with your masonry construction and chimney cleaning projects.

Genesee County Mi fireplace chimney fires are a reality of life. Michigan chimney fires destroy thousands of homes and lives. Having chimney cleaners provide a regular chimney cleaning can prevent most chimney fires. Most Genesee County residents don’t even realize the risk their homes could be in from chimney fires. First let us establish who is at risk. If proper precautions are taken, brick fireplace chimney fires can be avoided. A chimney should be inspected by your local Michigan chimney sweep and chimney cleaning specialist regularly. First, you need to understand the anatomy of how a fireplace works and how a fireplace chimney fire is set into motion. When a fire is built in a masonry or brick chimney it is started in the fireplace fire box.

The chimney firebox is built out of fire brick. A firebrick, or refractory brick is a block of refractory ceramic material used in lining furnaces, kilns, fireboxes, and fireplaces. A fireplace fire box is primarily to withstand high temperature, but will also usually have a low thermal conductivity for greater energy efficiency. Fireplace firebrick are weaker, but they are much lighter, and insulate far better than dense bricks. A fireplace fire box should be free from cracks. The fireplace fire brick will taper in toward a damper and smoke shelf. A fireplace firebox is the only spot in which burning wood should occur.

You must make sure to clean your chimney annually. When you ignite paper or cardboard in your fireplace, often times small flaming pieces of ash and soot can drift up the flue liner and are more likely to ignite the creosote that has built up. A chimney sweep is a person who who makes a living cleaning chimneys. A vast majority of chimney sweeps were children during the industrial revolution Here is what wikipedia says about chimney sweeps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_sweep

Demolition of a chimney by its nature can be a very messy process. The removal of spalled brick, chipped brick, and loose, cracked concrete inevitably will lead to dust and debris falling on your roof or shingles during masonry repair. When laying brick, the bricklayer spreads the mortar onto the brick and excess mortar can fall onto your roof shingles. Once the mortar hardens it can remove the granules from your roof shingles, leading to wear and tear on your roof. That is why when chimney repair, masonry restoration, chimney crown replacement, or chimney crown repair is performed on your chimney it is imperative to protect your roof in the chimney construction area.

Our brick layers have been in the masonry restoration business for over 12 years.  If you are looking for a masonry contractor specialized in repair and restoration, you have come to the right place.  We have worked hard to earn a reputation for quality, and look forward to showing the residents of Genesee County is well deserved.