Chimney Repair in Cheverly

Cheverly is one of the inner Prince George's County's most architecturally distinctive towns — a planned 1918 streetcar suburb whose entire core sits on the National Register of Historic Places. Driving its winding tree-lined lanes around Cheverly Park, the Town Hall on Cheverly Avenue, and the iconic stations of the Anglican Holy Trinity, you see one Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Dutch Colonial after another, each typically with a substantial side-gable brick chimney that has been working through Mid-Atlantic winters for nearly a century. The community draws DC-commuting families and federal employees from Children's National Hospital at Prince George's, just over the Cheverly border, who chose a walkable historic enclave instead of a tract subdivision.

The housing stock is overwhelmingly 1920s-1940s brick with original clay tile flue liners now well past their 50-year service life. We see the same pattern over and over in Tuxedo, the Cheverly Village core, and along the Landover Hills border: mortar crowns that crumbled in the 1980s, washed-out joints between flue tiles, parging that has fallen out of the smoke chamber, and rusted throat dampers that no longer seal. Many homes have a second flue serving an oil-fired Burnham or Weil-McLain boiler that was converted to gas decades ago without resizing the flue. We work in nearly every Cheverly neighborhood at least once per quarter.