Chimney Services in San Bruno, CA

Serving San Bruno

San Bruno is a post-war city and the chimneys reflect that almost uniformly. Belle Air, Crestmoor and Rollingwood went up quickly in the 1940s and 1950s to house families working at the airport and the shipyards, and the fireplaces built into those homes were modest, standardised and, in a great many cases, built with a single wythe of brick and no liner at all. That is the defining local issue. It is not dramatic and it rarely announces itself, but a camera in the flue of a typical Crestmoor house frequently finds open mortar joints between the firebox and the roofline. Sitting in the gap in the hills that funnels wind off the ocean, San Bruno stacks also take more direct weather than their neighbors a mile east.

Almost entirely 1940s-1950s tract housing with modest standardised fireplaces, commonly single-wythe brick with no liner. Open interior mortar joints are the routine camera finding. The city sits in a wind gap off the Pacific, so stacks weather harder than in sheltered neighboring cities.