Pompano Beach · Broward CountyA wood-framed chase wrapped around a factory-built fireplace absorbs everything our weather throws — we rebuild what the rain and salt take.
Plenty of Broward homes — especially townhomes and houses from the eighties onward — have a chase instead of a masonry stack: a wood-framed, sided column that houses a factory-built flue. The chase is essentially a piece of the house standing in the weather, and it fails like one: siding lets go, sheathing rots at the corners, and the top rusts or ponds water until it leaks straight down onto the framing.
Chase repair is carpentry with a chimney's job description. Failed sections come open, everything soft comes out, and the rebuild goes back with materials and flashing details designed around sideways ocean rain.
We find how far moisture has traveled — visible siding damage usually understates it.
Compromised framing and sheathing come out entirely — we don't bury rot under new skin.
New siding or cladding is installed with proper laps and sealed penetrations.
The chase top is pitched, sealed, or replaced so water sheds instead of pooling.
Damaged zones come open so we can trace exactly how far moisture has wandered.
Framing, sheathing, and skin are restored with weather-first detailing.
Flashing and top-of-chase drainage are checked so the fix holds through storm season.
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It's the carpentry column — framed, sheathed, sided — that wraps a factory-built flue on homes that never had brick. From the curb it passes for a chimney; structurally it's a wall, and water makes it fail like one.
Flat or back-pitched chase tops pond water, and rusted pans let it through. Correcting the top — pitch, pan, and sealant — is usually the heart of the fix.
Usually yes — profile and finish get matched as close as today's materials permit, and if a perfect twin doesn't exist, you hear that before we start.
It deserves prompt attention. Water inside a framed chase moves fast, and framing repairs grow quickly once rot establishes. Early repairs are dramatically smaller.
Yes — that's the point of calling a chimney company rather than a general carpenter. The flue, the framing, and the flashing get handled as one system.
Part of our Chimney Repair work in Pompano Beach and across south Broward County.
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