Chimney Services in Hayward, CA

Serving Hayward

The Hayward Fault runs directly beneath this city, through neighborhoods and under houses, and it is the single most relevant fact about chimneys in Hayward. Unreinforced masonry stacks in the older parts of town, particularly the pre-war housing around downtown and up in the Hayward Highland, have spent decades on ground that moves, and stair-step cracking through mortar joints is something we find here more often than anywhere else we work. Much of the rest of the city is 1950s and 1960s tract housing in Fairway Park, Mount Eden and Southgate, with lighter stacks that are also unbraced above the roofline. Any Hayward inspection we do includes a specific look at whether the stack has shifted relative to the house.

The Hayward Fault runs directly through the city, making seismic assessment central to chimney work here. Pre-war unreinforced masonry near downtown and in the Highland shows stair-step joint cracking more frequently than elsewhere in our area. Extensive 1950s-1960s tract housing with unbraced stacks above the roofline.