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Crews working the home tracts — sweeps & brickwork across the north county Insured • One Homegrown Crew • Mon–Sat 7–7 Call (657) 231-7989
Mason working a brick stack in the gold evening hour
The Colony • Anaheim Hills • West Anaheim • Platinum Triangle

They Named This Place "Home by the River" and Built It to Keep. Keep Your Chimney That Way.

  • Insured crew, homegrown and kept
  • The mason himself takes the call
  • The claim check clears at $0
  • Figures stay staked where spoken
624Saturday hours a year answered by a person
25+Years working north-county brick and flue
3950+Chimneys checked, swept or set to rights
$149The homestead deed — drawn at your word
The Colony Rolls

Eight Names on the Rolls, One Crew Working All Eight

Nothing on these rolls is farmed out. The mason who stakes your figure swings the trowel on your roof, and the stake doesn't wander between the quote and the bill.

Rod lowered into a chimney pot from the roof

Ditch-Clean Flue Sweeps

Rod and brush run the flue's full length, round after round, until nothing further shakes loose — and everything that came down leaves sealed, like it was never in the house.

  • Brush heads fit to the liner's size
  • Damper and shelf hand-finished
  • Cloth down, hearth sealed, then work
Book a sweep
Two crewmen checking a roof between chimneys

Claim Checks & Flue Surveys

The free check opens every job on the rolls — and when a sale, a claim or an unexplained symptom calls for the record, a camera surveys the flue and brings the pictures home.

  • Spoken findings, free without fail
  • Survey footage when records matter
  • $149 deed, drawn at your word
Book the free check
Brick course bedded true at a stack top

Colony-Plumb Stack Rebuilding

A stack that's drifted off true comes down to brick still worth trusting, then goes back up colony-plumb — beds filled solid, faces matched, a crown that moves water off and away.

  • Demolition ends at honest brick
  • New courses held to line and plumb
  • Crowns finished with a shedding edge
Price a rebuild
Mortar joints struck fair along chimney brickwork

Furrow-Full Repointing

Decades of inland sun powder mortar from the face inward. We cut each tired joint back to solid ground, press fresh mortar in furrow-full and strike it fair — color-matched, gentler than the brick.

  • Cut to firm depth, never crusted over
  • Mix tempered to the wall it joins
  • Lime blends where the age wants them
Weigh repointing
Meshed stainless cap fitted to a chimney

Headgate Caps & Storm Hoods

A headgate controls what enters the ditch; a proper cap does the same for your flue. Heavy stainless, anchored into masonry that can hold it, hooded against driven rain and ember weather.

  • Anchored into brick, never pinched on
  • Spark screening to current code
  • Hoods set against wind-driven rain
Set a cap
Sealant bead run along chimney flashing

Irrigation-Wise Leak Tracking

The colonists moved water on purpose; a leak moves it by accident. We track the stain back against the flow, prove the entry with a running hose, and shut the gate on it permanently.

  • Entry demonstrated with a live hose
  • Flashing re-worked into the joints
  • Repellents that let the wall breathe
Track a leak
Steel lining raised at a chimney chase

Deep-Lot Steel Linings

Cracked tile and unlined brick give heat and fumes a slow path toward framing. One continuous stainless lining, sized to the appliance it serves, fences that path off for a generation.

  • One piece, top plate to collar
  • Sized from the appliance listing
  • Insulated where the paperwork asks
Price a lining
Lamp-lit work inside a firebox

Fireside & Hearth Mending

Fireback walls laid fresh in rated firebrick, smoke chambers eased smooth so the draw stops arguing, gas sets bedded square — indoors or out in the yard, the fireside made whole.

  • Firebrick bedded in refractory
  • Chambers eased for a willing draw
  • Indoor hearths and patio ones alike
Mend a fireside
Boundary Flags

Surveyors Flag a Boundary Before It's Crossed. Flag These.

Seven flags a chimney plants before real trouble arrives — honor any one the week it shows and the job stays small.

  • Smoke crowding back indoorsThe draw upstairs has lost its pull — blocked, closed, or starved.
  • Mortar grit salted over the grateJoints up the flue giving ground a little with each burn.
  • A crack working up the stack faceSettling and heat trade blows, and the brick keeps the tally.
  • Rust running below the cap lineThe metal fails ahead of the brick and advertises the water behind it.
  • A ceiling stain that answers the rainSomewhere above, a seam already failed and reports each storm.
  • Flue walls shined up hard and blackCreosote past the powder stage — flue-fire stock, beyond a light brushing.
  • No inspection on anyone's recordThe flag nobody sees planted — and the only one cleared free of charge.

Call Now — Free Inspection

Rust trailing from failing chimney flashing down the roof
One of these flying at your place? Call it in while it's a flag and not a bill. The mason on the line will stake it honestly — safe to hold for a slow week, or worth the first truck out — and leave the deciding to you.
The Settlement

Four Stakes From First Call to Finished Work

Settled ground gets staked in order, and so does every job here — no corner skipped, no stake moved after it's driven.

1

Stake the Claim

Seven to seven, Monday through Saturday, your call lands on a working mason. Tell it your way and pick your day.

2

The Claim Check

Hearth through cap, each piece of the system checked in order and the findings spoken on the spot — free of any charge.

3

Figures Deeded

Each repair on its own line, each line with a staked figure, the pressing marked off from the waitable. Staked means staying.

4

Settled & Signed

The work brought to the promised standard, the grounds left tidier than found, and the warranty signed into your hand.

Sweep turning the rods on a chimney from a roof ladder
Before the Dry Winds Come

The First Cold Evening Fills Every Calendar in the County. Stake Yours Early.

When the first chilly night lands, half the north county reaches for the matches at once — and the unready chimneys book this trade solid for weeks. A call in the easy months settles your sweep, cap and pointing while good dates still hang on the board.

(657) 231-7989
The Colony Album

Pages From the Colony Album

Jobs worth remembering get their page — sweeps, caps, steel and new-laid brick from every tract we work.

Round brush showing at the crown
Brush showing at the crown — The Colony
Vacuum hose toted along the roof ridge
Vacuum line toted up the ridge
Stack top dressed tidy by hand
Top courses dressed — West Anaheim
Finished cap with the town spread beyond
Cap finished over the flats
Chimney face cleared of dust before pointing
Face cleared ahead of pointing
Hearth wrapped snug over floor cloth
Hearth wrapped snug for the sweep
Gas log set out for its look-over
Gas set out for its yearly look
Insert taped and sized for steel
Insert sized up for its steel
New course bedded true on a rebuild
Courses bedded true — Anaheim Hills
Steel lining up at the chase
Steel up at the chase — Platinum Triangle
The Home Tracts

Working From Sunshine Way, Round Every Tract of the North County

The lot sits in the canyon rows of 92806; the daily rounds take in the city's districts and the towns shoulder to shoulder around it.

  • The Colony
  • Anaheim Canyon
  • Anaheim Hills
  • West Anaheim
  • Platinum Triangle
  • Atwood
  • Fullerton
  • Placentia
  • Brea
  • Yorba Linda
  • Buena Park
  • La Palma
  • Cypress
  • Stanton
  • La Habra
  • Los Alamitos

Staked outside these tracts? Call (657) 231-7989 — a day's worth of work moves the boundary.

Asked at the Fence Line

Anaheim Chimney Questions, Answered Neighbor to Neighbor

A no-cost inspection sounds like a sales visit. Is it one?

No — and the structure of it is your protection. The claim check walks the firebox, damper and throat by touch, runs the flue for its whole height, and the weather side above the roof: crown, cap, screen, flashing, brick. Then the mason tells you what he found, standing in your driveway, sorted into what's urgent, what's seasonal and what's simply fine — and "all fine" is a common verdict that ends the visit right there. Nothing about any of that costs money or obliges you to spend any. The single document for sale on this lot is the homestead deed — the findings recorded with photographs and a staked figure per repair, $149 — and it's written only when you say so.

I called past closing and got the recording. When does a person call me back?

At the next seven o'clock bell, working down the list in the order it formed. A person keeps this line from 7 in the morning through 7 in the evening, Monday through Saturday; Sundays the lot rests. Whatever lands on the recorder overnight gets rung back when the line reopens — earliest message, earliest call — ahead of that day's new traffic, and Sunday's messages stand at the head of Monday. One thing outranks the list entirely: flame you can see, smoke drifting wrong, or a carbon-monoxide alarm speaking up means everyone out the door and 911 dialed before our number crosses your mind.

We burn wood maybe one week in four, and the gas logs nightly. What upkeep does that really need?

Give it one look every year, then brush only when the soot calls for it rather than by habit. Occasional wood fires lay down creosote at a crawl, letting the brush rest a season more often than not — the look can't, because an idle flue grows trouble without a single match: birds settle in, screens choke shut, crowns split under the sun, gaskets shrink. Nightly gas logs are the sleeper — the flame reads clean while moisture and faint acids work the flue all winter, which is exactly why the annual look includes them. One override stands above the calendar: a fire that got loud, sparked wildly or dropped black flakes grounds the hearth until it's been seen.

We rent our place out short-term most of the year. What should hosts do about the fireplace?

Treat it like the one appliance your guests will use wrong. A short-term rental fireplace meets dozens of strangers a season — wet wood, overloaded grates, trash in the flames, dampers left shut — so it earns a pre-season inspection and sweep as a baseline, a mid-season look in heavy booking years, and the homestead deed for your records, since a dated, photographed account of the system's condition is exactly what an insurer or platform asks for after an incident. We also leave hosts a one-page guest card for the mantel — what to burn, what never to burn, and how to open the damper — because the cheapest repair is the mistake a guest never makes.

The backyard has one of those built-in outdoor fireplaces. Do you service those too?

Gladly — this county builds its living rooms outdoors, and those fireplaces work harder than most indoor ones. They also weather faster: no roof shields the crown, sprinklers mist the base, and winter sits in the firebox all year. The service list runs close to the indoor one — sweep the flue, check the cap and spark screen, repoint what the seasons opened, rebuild fireboxes that burned soft — plus the outdoor specials: drainage so the firebox doesn't pond, counter-and-seating masonry, and honest advice on the prefab outdoor units that rust from the inside. A backyard pizza oven or fire pit rides the same visit without ceremony.

Whose crew shows up — yours, or whoever answered a text that morning?

Ours, with no asterisk. Every man on the roster was hired to stay: trained here, seasoned here, kept on through the slow months. We don't staff busy weeks from a parking-lot labor pool, full stop. Over all of them stands general liability and workers' compensation kept current without interruption, so anything that goes sideways on your property settles on our policy and leaves your homeowner's untouched. The certificate of insurance is a standing offer — say the word at booking and it's in your email before the visit.

Last chimney crew left my hearth room gray with dust. What's your answer to that?

A sealed system, run the same way every time. Floor covering unrolls from door to hearth before any gear comes inside, the fireplace mouth is taped shut behind plastic, and a filtered vacuum keeps air drawing steadily inward for the length of the job — so everything the brush frees is captured on its way down instead of escaping into the room. All brushing happens behind that seal. An ordinary flue runs about an hour, and the room gets handed back exactly as found — judged by your eyes and your nose, not our word.

We're up in Yorba Linda. Is that inside your territory?

Well inside it. The lot sits on Sunshine Way in 92806, in the canyon industrial rows, and the standing rounds cover all of Anaheim — the Colony, the flatlands, the Hills — plus Fullerton, Placentia, Brea, Yorba Linda, Buena Park, La Palma, Cypress, Stanton, La Habra and Los Alamitos. Outside those stakes, ask when you call: for a day's worth of work the rounds have stretched before and will stretch again.

The Sunshine Way Lot

One Ring and the Mason Himself Picks Up

No front desk, no routing, no ticket number. The voice answering can size your job from the story you tell, calendar within reach.

  • The lot1280 N Sunshine Way, Unit B
    Anaheim, CA 92806
  • The roundsAnaheim's districts & the neighbor towns across the north county

When the line is kept

Mon – Sat
A person answering, morning seven until evening seven
Sunday
The lot rests — the recorder stakes your place for Monday morning
A working mason keeps this line

Tell It Over the Gate. Walk Off With the Plan.

The crack you spotted backing out of the driveway, the cap that rattles on dry-wind nights, the grit collecting by the andirons — say it however it comes. By the time you hang up you'll hold a straight read on urgency, a working figure, and a staked date.

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Kept live 7–7, Mon–Sat
After the evening bell, the recorder holds your stake for morning

How the call settles

  1. Your tract and what you've noticed.
  2. A straight read on the urgency.
  3. A date staked to suit your week.
  4. The check free; figures stay staked.
Tap to call — kept 7–7, Mon–Sat(657) 231-7989