Chimney Sweep in Nepean, ON

What Nepean Chimneys Ask of a Crew

Nepean became a city in 1978 and joined Ottawa in 2001, and about 186,593 people lived there in 2021. A big share of its homes were built from the 1950s to the 1970s, and many have a brick chimney with the original clay liner.

Brick Bungalows and Their Original Flues

A 1960s bungalow often has one brick chimney, built when the home was new and never touched since. After sixty winters of freeze-thaw, the mortar is soft, the crown is cracked and the clay liner may have split. None of that shows from the street, and all of it shows to a camera. In our experience, we have scanned about 80 of them in Nepean and about a third had a cracked tile.

Furnace Upgrades That Left Empty Flues

Many Nepean homes swapped their old furnace for a high-efficiency model that vents through the side wall. The chimney then sits unused, with a liner that nobody looks at. We pull the old liner out, seal the top and, if the brick is failing, take the chimney down or rebuild the top.

Split-Levels and Taller Stacks

Split-level and two-storey homes have taller chimneys, which means scaffolding and a bigger price on masonry work. Repointing one of those takes two to three days. We build scaffolding on stacks that need it, and the price in your written estimate includes that.

How Much Does Chimney Repointing Cost in Nepean?

Chimney repointing in Nepean costs $700 to $3,500 in 2026. A bungalow chimney with a few bad joints sits at the low end, and a full repoint of a tall stack with scaffolding sits at the top. The number of bad joints and the height of the stack set the price.

Chimney Problems We See Most in Nepean

Mortar Gone to Sand

After decades, old mortar turns to sand you can scrape out with a key. It is meant to wear out before the brick does, and it has. A repoint now saves the brick faces, which are much harder and much more expensive to replace.

Cracked Crowns

A mortar crown of the kind common on bungalows has maybe 20 to 30 good years. When it cracks, rain runs straight into the chimney. We patch small cracks, and pour a new crown with a drip edge when the old one is too far gone.

Cold Winters and Wet Brick

The January average low in Ottawa is about minus 14 degrees C, and the city gets about 232 cm of snow in a year. Brick that stays wet freezes and flakes. A cap and a good crown keep most of the water out. They are the cheapest part of the chimney to fix.

Nepean's older streets also run close to tall trees, and falling leaves and seeds block the screen on a cap. We clear them on every visit. If you see squirrels on your roof every fall, a screened cap will pay for itself in a season.