Cracked flue tiles and rusted-out metal liners don't heal on their own. We remove failed liners and install stainless replacements sized to your fireplace, with upfront pricing and no hidden fees.
A flue liner has one job: contain heat, smoke, and combustion byproducts all the way up the chimney. When it fails, everything around it is exposed. In Pinecrest we see three common failures — clay tiles that have cracked or spalled, mortar joints between tiles that have eroded into open gaps, and older metal liners that have rusted through from the inside. Any one of these breaks the seal. Replacement means taking the failed liner out of service and installing a new one, rather than patching material that has already served out its life.
Coastal South Florida is tough on liners. Humid air sits in the flue for most of the year because fireplaces here only run a few weeks each winter, and that moisture combines with old soot deposits to form an acidic residue that attacks both clay joints and galvanized steel. Our replacement liners are stainless, proportioned to the fireplace opening, and sealed at the chamber base and the top plate. Whether yours is a 1960s ranch off Red Road or a newer estate near Pinecrest Gardens, we match the liner to the fireplace it serves, and our workmanship warranty covers the finished job.
Cracked tile sections or rusted-out metal liners are broken free and removed so the new liner isn't compromised by old material.
New liners in stainless alloys that hold up against acidic flue deposits and the salt haze riding inland off the bay.
The replacement is sized to your fireplace opening — not simply to the old liner — because the old one may have been wrong from day one.
Connections at the smoke chamber and the top plate are sealed so the new liner is a continuous, tight passage from bottom to top.
We trace exactly where and why the existing liner failed, because that tells us what the replacement has to do better.
The failed liner comes out, the flue is cleared, and any masonry that needs attention is addressed before the new liner goes in.
The new stainless liner is set, sealed at both ends, and checked for draft before the job is considered done.
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Relining generally means adding a liner to a flue that never had one or lining over intact tile. Replacement means the existing liner has failed — cracked, rusted, or collapsed — and has to come out before the new one goes in. We recommend one or the other after evaluating the actual condition of your flue, and the free written estimate explains why.
Occasionally, when damage is confined to the flue's uppermost stretch. In most cases a continuous liner is the better repair, because a spliced system is only as sound as its weakest joint, and joints are exactly where liners fail in our humid climate.
Stainless steel, by a wide margin. Galvanized and aluminum liners corrode quickly once salt-laden humidity and acidic flue deposits get to work on them, which is why every replacement liner we install is stainless.
Part of our Chimney Repair work in Pinecrest and across south Miami-Dade County.