Chimney Repair in Bordentown, NJ
Hamilton Chimney Repair is a chimney repair company working in Bordentown, NJ, one of the towns we serve around Hamilton. Sweeps, liners, leaks, crowns, flashing, repointing, and rebuilds, with the same crew on the roof from start to finish.
Bordentown covers just under one square mile, 5.8 miles south of Trenton. Free estimates apply throughout the city and Bordentown Township. We look at the chimney from the roof and the firebox and explain what we see in plain language.
River-Town Chimneys in Bordentown
Thomas Farnsworth, an English Quaker, settled here in 1682 on a windswept bluff above a broad bend in the Delaware River, and Farnsworth's Landing became Borden's Town after Joseph Borden arrived in 1717. Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, later bought the Point Breeze estate nearby and lived there for 17 years. Today the city sits at the confluence of the Delaware River, Blacks Creek, and Crosswicks Creek, the creek marking the Burlington and Mercer county line.
Older brick is often softer than modern brick and was usually laid in lime mortar that flexes and breathes. The damage that does the most harm to it is often a past repair done with modern portland cement mortar, which is harder than the surrounding brick, traps moisture, and pops the brick faces off when that moisture freezes. A chimney standing on open ground near the river also takes wind-driven rain on its exposed faces.
Repairs we do in Bordentown
The damage that hurts Bordentown's old brick most
Hard mortar patches on soft brick
Past repairs done with modern portland cement mortar trap moisture in softer historic brick, and when that moisture freezes, the brick faces pop off. Once spalling starts, it accelerates. The correct repair is repointing with a lime-appropriate mortar matched to the original in hardness, color, and joint profile, so the mortar sacrifices itself instead of the brick.
Crowns that were never real crowns
Some older stacks have nothing but a thin mortar wash on top instead of a proper crown. That wash cracks, and water travels straight down into the masonry. A rebuilt crown sheds water off the top of the stack the way the original wash never could.
Chimneys built without liners
A chimney built before liners were routine may have none at all. A stainless steel flue liner closes the gap between an old stack and a modern appliance, and it is also the right move after an oil-to-gas furnace conversion.
Bordentown has been settled since 1682, and older soft brick needs a lime-appropriate mortar, not the hard modern bag mix that breaks old brick faces.
Getting hold of us from Bordentown
Call us at (609) 740-3687 during working hours and you will get one of us, not a dispatcher.
Nearby
Close to Bordentown: chimney repair in Trenton and chimney repair in Robbinsville. Every service and town is on the Hamilton Chimney Repair home page, and flue cleaning has its own page: chimney sweep & cleaning in Hamilton.