Who does chimney repair in my area?

Chimney repair is roof work, so the trade you want is a roofer with a working platform, not a sweep with a brush.

Wey Valley Roofing is family-run, fully insured with Public Liability Insurance, and works to a 25-year written workmanship guarantee on every job. Whether you need chimney work or chimney work in Godalming, we cover the whole area with our own experienced local roofers.

Ring 07428 300474 and Scott will tell you what the stack actually needs.

Who does chimney repair in my area?

A local roofer does it, not a chimney sweep and not a general builder. Chimney repair is roof work: repointing, flaunching, flashing, pots and rebuilds, all reached off a scaffold or tower. Wey Valley Roofing covers Surrey and the Wey Valley with its own roofers, and Scott answers the phone himself.

Chimney repair sits with the roofer, not the sweep

People ring a sweep first because the sweep is the last trade they saw. A sweep cleans the flue and can tell you the stack looks tired, but the work above the tiles belongs to whoever works on roofs. Repointing a stack, renewing sand and cement flaunching around the pots, dressing new lead into the brick courses and stepping it down the slope: that is roofing, done from a proper working platform with the surrounding tiles protected.

Whether you need chimney work or chimney work services Guildford, we cover the whole area, and the same crew that repairs the stack makes the roof good around it. That matters more than it sounds. Most chimney leaks are not the brickwork at all. They are the flashing where the stack meets the slope, or the back gutter behind it, and a trade that will not lift a tile cannot put either right.

Our own experienced local roofers do the work. No subcontracted strangers turn up in an unmarked van, and nobody hands the job on halfway through.

What actually fails on a stack, and what it takes to fix

Thirty-six years on Surrey roofs teaches you the order things go in. Flaunching cracks first, because it is a thin bed of mortar sitting in full weather with a pot moving in it. Then the pointing washes out of the windward face, usually the south west side. Water gets into the brickwork, freezes, and the faces of the bricks start to blow. Lead flashings are next: old mortar wedges drop out, the lead lifts, and the first driving rain finds the gap.

What the fix is depends on how far down that road the stack has travelled:

• Repointing. Old joints raked out to a sound depth and repointed in a mortar that suits the brick, not a hard mix that traps damp and pushes the faces off.
• Flaunching. The old bed broken out, pots checked and reseated, a new weathered flaunching formed so water runs off rather than sits.
• Flashing and lead work. New lead soakers, apron and back gutter, sized and dressed to Lead Sheet Association guidance, wedged and pointed properly rather than smeared with mastic.
• Partial rebuild. Where the top few courses have gone but the base is sound, take it down to good brick and rebuild.
• Full rebuild or removal. Where the stack is beyond saving, rebuild it or take it down and weather the roof over the opening.
• Pots and cowls. Replacements for cracked pots, and cowls where birds, rain or a redundant flue are the problem.

Whether you need chimney work or chimney work in Woking, we cover the whole area, and the survey comes before the opinion. Half of these jobs turn out smaller than the homeowner feared. Some turn out bigger. You should be told which before anyone quotes.

How a local roofer should handle the survey and the price

Nobody can price a chimney honestly from the pavement. It gets inspected properly, which means getting up to it, and a drone view where that helps see the back gutter and the far face without guesswork. Then you get an honest fixed price in writing, no obligation and no charge for the quote. If repointing and a new flaunching will see the stack out for another twenty years, we say so rather than talking you into a rebuild.

Structural work on a stack, a rebuild above the roofline or taking one down, is where building control can come into it, and GOV.UK sets out when building regulations approval is needed. That gets raised at survey, not sprung on you later.

Our full range of chimney work services runs from a single cracked pot to a stack taken down and rebuilt from the roofline. Every job carries a 25-year written workmanship guarantee, handed over in writing before the team leaves. If something is not right inside those 25 years, we come back and put it right.

Getting hold of someone when the stack is leaking now

A chimney leak rarely announces itself politely. It shows up as a damp patch in a bedroom ceiling after a gale, and by then water has been tracking down the brickwork for a while. A real person answers the phone day, night and weekend, not a call centre, and emergencies go to the front of the queue.

Being family-run and local is the practical part of that. We are not routing your call through a national office and waiting for a crew to be allocated. Scott has spent more than 36 years on roofs across Surrey and the Wey Valley and still takes the calls himself, whatever the hour. Site left tidy, guarantee in your hand, and one number to ring if you ever need us again.