Fireplace and Chimney Service for Lindon Homes

Lindon runs from the flats up onto the old lake bench, and most of it sits low enough to spend January inside the inversion. That matters more than it sounds. Under an inversion lid the pressure difference that drives a chimney weakens, fires burn cooler than the person tending them intends, and cool fires are what coat a flue.

What gets burned here

This was orchard ground before it was neighborhoods, and plenty of lots still carry mature fruit trees. When one comes down the wood goes on the pile, which is entirely reasonable, because apple and cherry burn beautifully once they are dry. The catch is that fruitwood is dense and holds its water far longer than most people allow for. Burned before its time it never gets the flue properly hot, and the deposit it leaves is the sticky, tarry kind rather than the light flaky kind a brush lifts off in one pass. If your firewood came off your own property, say so when you book; it changes what we expect to find up there.

Chimneys built on the outside of the house

Walk an older street here and you will see stack after stack climbing an exterior wall instead of rising through the middle of the roof. That was simply how these houses were built, and it has two consequences. The masonry has three faces exposed to weather rather than one, so freeze-thaw opens the joints and the crown sooner than it would on an interior chimney. And the flue inside starts every fire cold, which is why so many of these homes spill a little smoke for the first ten minutes and then behave themselves for the rest of the evening.

The cure for that second problem is rarely masonry. Usually it is warming the flue before you light, or correcting a liner that is oversized for whatever appliance is attached to it now. We would rather tell you that than sell you a rebuild you do not need.