Chimney Services in Palo Alto, CA

Serving Palo Alto

Palo Alto has a genuinely historic building stock and a regulatory environment to match, and both affect chimney work here. Professorville and Old Palo Alto contain some of the oldest intact housing on the Peninsula, much of it from the 1890s through the 1920s, with original masonry that is now well over a century old and in some cases subject to historic review when it is altered. That makes matched materials and sympathetic repair more than an aesthetic preference. Elsewhere the picture changes completely: the Eichler tracts around Greenmeadow and Fairmeadow were built with flat roofs and light framing, and where they have fireplaces at all the systems are nothing like the brick stacks a mile north. Two very different kinds of job in one city.

Century-old masonry in Professorville and Old Palo Alto, some of it within historic review areas where sympathetic and matched repair matters. Distinct mid-century Eichler tracts with flat roofs and light framing where any fireplace system is entirely unlike the older brick stacks. Repair approach differs sharply by neighborhood.