Chimney Services in South San Francisco, CA

Serving South San Francisco

The housing in South San Francisco splits neatly into two eras and the chimney work follows the split. The older neighborhoods below Sign Hill, laid out for workers at the steel plant and the shipyards, hold compact 1920s and 1930s homes with brick stacks that have now had a century of salt air on them. Westborough and the developments up the hill are a different proposition, built from the 1960s onward and far more likely to have a prefabricated metal firebox and a factory-built Class A chimney behind a decorative chase. Those two systems fail in completely different ways and are repaired with completely different parts, which is why the first question we ask on a South San Francisco call is which side of town the house is on.

A clear split between pre-war masonry near the older downtown and Sign Hill, and 1960s-onward hillside housing with prefabricated metal fireboxes and factory-built chimneys in decorative chases. Salt-laden air accelerates corrosion on metal systems and erodes mortar on the older brick.